Notice Board
Training Courses (updated 01/12/2011)
South West Layers & Game Birds Initiative and West Country Layers Association combine to offer an Advanced Course on Rodent Control on 13th December 2011, 10.30am - 4pm. This workshop will look at best practice for Rodent Control, and the speaker is Dr. Steve Havers - Animal Aids. The venue is the Skills Centre, Royal Agricultural College, Stroud Road, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 6JS.
For further information and eligibility requirements contact Rachel Watkins (Tel: 07966 558386) or Rural Business School (Tel: 0845 458 7485) or e-mail: Rachel.watkins@duchy.ac.uk
The cost is £27.50 per person if eligible for RDPE funding, £91.50 per person if non-eligible. Lunch will be provided.
Animal Aids and Kemin UK invite you to a poultry discussion meeting on 14th December 2011, at Animal Aids, Wincanton BA9 9RU entitled "Cost effective improvement of intestinal health in Broiler Production".
There will be a talk on "Practical solutions for Poultry Farmers - CLOSTAT" by Dr. R. Chanthirasekaran starting at 11.00am followed by discussions. Arrive for the welcome and coffee from 10.45am, lunch will be provided. Please contact Anthony Barron at Animal Aids to book your place.
Nowadays, there is an increased reliance on nutritional solutions to support the production of safe, high quality and low cost animal products for human consumption. Therefore, farmers are under pressure to find the best solutions that will both optimise animal performance and maximise profitability.
Natural solutions that can link nutrition and health will play a key role in modern broiler production to assure optimal performance and to be used as a tool for cost effective production.
Intestinal health issues can incur additional costs to the farmer which would increase the cost of production and reduce the final earnings per crop. Through the use of cost effective solutions these issues can be resolved whilst improving animal health and reducing the costs associated with health issues such as decreasing the use of antibiotics.
