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Parasitology Training

2025 - Bruges, Belgium

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

Scope of the seminar: Focus on important trends in Parasitology including helminths, importance of Histomonas meleagridis and its link to Heterakis gallinarum. As well as the latest on coccidiosis control trends, dealing with bacterial enteritis. Also ectoparasites such as Dermanyssus gallinae are discussed, giving you a complete overview of parasitic diseases in poultry production.

Parasitology 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 training in Bruges – Poeke (Belgium) 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

  • Welcome & introduction on poultry parasitology (Helminths, Histomonas, Coccidiosis, Dermanyssus)
  • Overview and biology of poultry helminths
  • Histomonas and heterakis
  • Diagnosis and monitoring of helminths in poultry
  • Anthelmintics: overview of molecules used in poultry
  • How to design deworming programs in practice

Afternoon session

  • Farm approach broilers/breeders
  • Workshop: focus on long living birds
  • Video: Necropsy and worm count

Morning session

  • Importance of coccidiosis in poultry
  • How to diagnose coccidiosis
  • Prevention of coccidiosis, rotation programs and clean up programs
  • Coccidiosis in layers and breeders
  • How to evaluate drug efficacy (AST)
  • Therapy for coccidiosis

Afternoon session

  • Bacterial enteritis and link with coccidiosis
  • Workshop: Safe use of anticoccidials
  • Workshop: Designing rotation programmes

Morning session

  • Dermanyssus: life cycle, monitoring, treatment, resistance
  • Control of vectors and pests
  • Case reports: focus on control of parasites in breeders (histomonas)
  • Diagnosing helminths, coccidiosis and general gut health: introduction to practical session

Afternoon session

  • Visit specialised poultry lab and necropsy room
  • Practical session on diagnosis of helminths and histomonas
  • Practical session on diagnosis of coccidiosis and evaluating gut health
  • Evaluation

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.

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

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