Optimising Broiler Performance
Nearly 50 growers got together at Padbrook Park hotel on 23rd November to attend
the 'Optimising Broiler Performance' event sponsored by Cobb Europe.
Antony Taylor (Technical Service & Account Manager, Cobb Europe) gave a global update
focusing the company overview and genetic changes , this was followed by Matthew
Wilson (Technical Services Manager-Europe-Russia-Middle East-Africa, Cobb Europe)
gave a superb technical presentation on 'Optimising Broiler Performance'. If you
couldn't make the event, the presentations are provided below for your information.
Introduction to Cobb
Europe (pdf, 5.4MB)
Optimum Broiler
Devlopment (pdf, 3.9MB)
An excellent 21 point Chick Checklist was also provided in Matthew’s presentation
for a copy of this to pin on your wall: Chick Checklist (pdf, 169KB)
Datapoul Conference
The first Datapoul Conference was held on 8th March 2011 at the Hyde Park Conference
Centre, Taunton. It was a very successful event and our thanks go to the keynote
speakers: Dr Tibor Cserep and Willem Wijmenga.
Datapoul Conference Programme
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Gumboro- the iceberg disease of chickens?
Key Note Speaker:
Dr Tibor Cserp DVM MRCVS – Technical Manager Intervet/Schering Plough Animal
Health
Why Infectious Bursal Disease (IBD), also known as Gumboro is the most important
poultry disease worldwide.
Tibor’s presentation is available to download (pdf, 703KB)
The animations used in the presentation can be found at Antibodies - The First Line of Defence
Also available is the Optimal Vaccination Age Calculator
Please visit the Gumboro website
for further information
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Overview of IB disease - the new strain IB QX
Key Note Speaker:
Willem Wijmenga – Associate Director of Technical Services Poultry - Pfizer
Animal Health EUAfME
The International Perspective and insight into Infectious Bronchitis and the new
strain IB QX.
Willem’s talk is not available to download and it has not been released for publication.
For more information on infectious bronchitis, please visit The Infectious Bronchitis website
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DVD - Introduction to The Datapoul Performance Manager, including
the growers’ perspective of the database as a farm management tool.
The DVD can be viewed on the Datapoul Performance
Manager page.
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Evidence of the disease challenges currently faced by Poultry Growers in SW England
Richard Turner
MRCVS – St David’s Poultry Team Ltd
This Survey is the first serology monitoring across the region.
Blood samples were analysed for Infectious Bronchitis and Gumboro (IBD). Click here
for the full report.
The Full Serology Report is available to download (pdf, 2.2MB)
There are no other conferences planned at this time, for other training and networking
opportunities, please our Training page.