HANDS ON POULTRY TRAINING

Feb
25
February 25, 8:00 am
Where

Museum Room, Vet. Pathology Building

Where

Museum Room, Vet. Pathology Building

HANDS ON POULTRY TRAINING 

The Dept. of Vet. Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology will on Tuesday 25th February 2020 conduct a three days hands on Poultry practical training to some scientists from International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

The training will forcus on;

  • Chcken Handling (safe handling, restraint and hazards)
  • Acquitance with anatomy of chickens of various types, ages and sexes 
  • Adequate sample collection on live and dead chickens, including handling, transportation and streaking onto MacConkey agar.
  • Collection of blood for serum and for plasma harvesting
  • Carrying out rapid whole blood plate test for fowl typhoid
  • innoculation of the birds through various routes

They will also cover;

  • Aspects of asceptic technique
  • Biosafety and biosecurity issues with respect to poultry
  • Disposal of wastes (carcasses, Lab wastes)
  • Animal/chicken welfare issues (including humane killing of the birds)
  • Various pathological lesions that can be seen on various organs and specifically for salmonellosis

 

Event contact information

Prof. Samuel Githigia,

Chairman, Dept. of Vet. Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology

Telphone: 0202 2089728

Email: vetpath@uonbi.ac.ke