AVIAN/FUR EXOTIC SPECIES

Small flock poultry Veterinary training course

The OAHN team, together with AHL, OMAFRA, and Merck, were pleased to welcome 37 veterinarians from across the province to the small flock veterinary training course at the Animal Health Laboratory-Guelph on Saturday, May 7, 2016. Veterinarians unable to join in-person tuned in for our live, private YouTube streamed event, and many got together at clinics to take part. Participants were also given a free electronic poultry text-book courtesy of Merck Animal Health. The course was fully subsidized by DSP funding.

Topics included:

  • Practical small flock biosecurity (Al Dam, OMAFRA)
  • The role of OMAFRA in disease outbreaks and prevention (Dr. Csaba Varga, OMAFRA)
  • Euthanasia techniques (Dr. Mike Petrik)
  • Management by the FLAWS principle: a prac-tical, checklist approach to troubleshoot issues (Dr. Lloyd Weber)
  • Vaccination and medication considerations for the small flock (Dr. Elizabeth Black)
  • Diseases of small flock poultry (Dr. Lloyd Weber)
  • Small flock research project, how to submit poultry to the laboratory (Dr. Marina Brash)

If you wanted to take the course but weren’t able to join us, all the course materials are posted online at: http://oahn.ca/resources/poultry/small-poultry-flock-workshop-for-veterinarians-presentations-live-video-and-resources/

Please note that you will need to create an OAHN account (available to all veterinarians in Canada and RVTs in On-tario.)

All of the handouts, slides, recorded video, and resources are available on this page. 90% of participants said they felt significantly more confident treating small flocks after taking the course.

If you do “take the course” on your own time, please do fill out an evaluation (link on the course page). As this is a new method of information sharing for OAHN, it is very important for future events to continually improve or note successes.

Thank you to all of our sponsors, speakers, and organizing committee who helped make this day a success.

Interested in joining an email list for small flock poultry veterinarians to trade cases and infor-mation? We have a listserv started! Email oahn@uoguelph.ca and please also indicate if you would like to participate in a small flock case discussion call.