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Training on Improving Poultry Welfare

2025 - Bruges, Belgium

*** Dates 2025 will be communicated soon ***

Scope of the Welfare workshop: Focus on trends in animal welfare including general poultry welfare, welfare in the hatchery, welfare for breeders, layers and broilers, welfare during catching, transportation and at the slaughterhouse. The training includes interactive workshops and field visits to production sites.

Poultry Welfare Training: What makes this training unique is that it gives you a complete overview of the academic state of the art, while also providing you with the practical experience you need to put what you’ve learned into action on your farm.

We’re also unique in that our team has a wealth of global experience to share, so you can be confident that you’re getting the best possible training available.

Register for our live or our online streaming training (worldwide).

Who is it for: poultry professionals, veterinarians, growers, farmers, nutritionists, technical advisors.
Language: English
Accreditation: This training will be accredited by NGROD and WVEPAH.

Pricing

Live training

€ 1.500 (excl. VAT).

Online training

€ 975 (excl. VAT)

Hotel & Dinner

Hotel, per night: € 110 * in Bruges, Belgium.
Dinner, per night: € 60.
* Hotel rates are subject to change due to the high demand during high season.

Program

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Morning session

  • Introduction: What Is Animal Welfare in poultry?
  • Structure of the poultry industry
  • Anatomy, physiology, behaviour
  • Welfare at the hatchery. Chick culling: male chicks in the egg industry
  • Early feedings. Facts, systems.
  • Different housing systems: climate, litter in floor housing

Afternoon session

  • Important pathogens in poultry: intestinal, respiratory, locomotory
  • Practical digital video: farm visit; E-learning

Morning session

  • Biosecurity
  • Welfare at the farm
  • Precision Farming
  • Euthanasia
  • Welfare during catching and transport
  • Welfare at the slaughterhouse

Afternoon session

  • How to measure and influence welfare? Key welfare indicators pt1. (broilers)
  • How to measure and influence welfare? Key welfare indicators pt1. (layers; broiler breeders)
  • Practical digital video: slaughter house visit; E-learning

Morning session

  • Role of farmer, veterinarian, government
  • Perceived welfare vs real welfare
  • Welfare requirements: legislation and quality labels
  • Inspection and Audit on Welfare

Afternoon session

  • Workshop: How to manage bad news?
  • Evaluation test for certification
  • Wrap up & certificates

Speakers

Maarten De Gussem
DVM & Global poultry consultant

Maarten is founder & global poultry consultant at Vetworks since 2009 providing support on poultry health topics with focus on mycoplasmosis, general gut health and coccidiosis.

Hilde Van Meirhaeghe
DVM & Global poultry consultant

Hilde is a global Poultry Consultant at Vetworks since 2010. She’s previously worked with DGZ and currently working with several partners and projects.

Tiago Prucha
DVM & Global poultry consultant

Since 2018, Tiago works as a Poultry Consultant at Vetworks. Tiago is working on several projects: EU-H2020 Phagovet and the E-learning modules to the Broiler Signals manual.

Register here

*** Dates 2025 will be communicated soon ***

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