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Poultry Welfare & Research

Winter – November 21

 – 22

, 2019

Belfast

Winter Meeting

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Location: Belfast

Hotel Details

Stormont Hotel

Upper Newtownards Road
Belfast
BT4 3LP

Phone: +44 (0) 28 9065 1066
Email: res@stor.hastingshotels.com
Website: https://www.stormonthotelbelfast.com

The beautiful four-star Stormont Hotel Belfast is located just minutes away from Belfast City Centre, adjacent to Stormont Estate, overlooking the immaculately maintained wooded landscape, making it the ideal base for weddings, conferences, events or the deserving treat away. Alongside its outstanding reputation for professionalism and exceptional hospitality, we’re proud of our warm and professional staff, who are on hand to ensure you have everything you need and more throughout your stay.

With 106 bright and spacious, bedrooms tastefully decorated and furnished to the highest standards, an inviting and relaxing cocktail lounge, conference facilities, wedding ceremony and reception rooms, city centre shopping, theatres, museums and restaurants just minutes away, it is no wonder guests choose to come back time after time! See for yourself and enjoy a stay at one of the finest Belfast hotels, with an award winning team.

When staying at the hotel you can be assured of a warm welcome and luxurious stay with round the clock room service, our famous King Koil “cloud beds” and complimentary car parking. The hotel has an excellent choice of accommodation types, each tastefully decorated and designed with your comfort in mind, choose from the roomy Executive bedrooms, luxurious Superior bedrooms, spacious family rooms or one of our specially themed Suites.

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THURSDAY, 21st November 2019 – Session: 11:00AM – 5:00PM
10:30 am
Welcome tea & coffee
10:50 am
Richard Irvine
BVPA President
Welcome and opening remarks
11:00 am
Kate Barger
Cobb Vantress
WVPAC 2017 Memorial Lecture: Broiler welfare
12:00 pm
Maarten De Gussem
Vetworks, Belgium
H3N1 LPAI: Belgian experiences
12:30 pm
Lunch Break
1:30 pm
Laureano Garcia-Munoz
FSA
Broiler trigger system: The FSA perspective
2:00 am
Sophie Throup
Wm Morrison Plc
Bird health and welfare: A retailer perspective
2:30 pm
Leni Corrand
Selarl Abiopole
Welfare management in foie gras production in France: A constant evolution
3:00 pm
Collin Willson
Food Standard Agency
Current and future methods of stunning in poultry
3:30 pm
Tea/Coffee Break
4:00 pm
Simon Carlton
Anitox UK/Europe
Finding Salmonella in feed - What’s the problem?
4:30 pm
Charlotte Radley & Frances Holman
University of Surrey
Can we measure welfare?
4:45 pm
Peter O’Kane
Slatehall Veterinary
Communication strategies for multifactorial conditions
5:00 am
BVPA MEETING – members only
8:00 pm
BVPA 2019 Winter Meeting Dinner
After Dinner Speaker: Robert Huey, (CVO, Northern Ireland)
FRIDAY, 22nd November 2019 – Session: 9:00AM – 12:30PM
9:00 am
Alastair Douglas
VSD Director AFBI
Welcoming remarks
9:30 am
Pauline Sheridan & Kerry McIlwaine
AFBI
Reovirus & Astrovirus research
10:00 am
Ian Stewart
Parklands Vet Practice
Issues in NI layers
10:30 am
Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 am
Tour of AFBI
12:25 pm
Annoucements
12:30 pm
End of meeting and closing remarks

Past Meetings

The previous 4 BVPA meetings
Members have full access to all previous BVPA meetings and papers presented at them
  • Poultry Viral Diseases
    March 26 - {acf_end_date: j} {acf_start_date: Y}
    Harrogate
    plant
  • Poultry Bacterial Diseases
    November 13 - {acf_end_date: j} {acf_start_date: Y}
    Coventry
    snowflake
  • Poultry Management Innovation
    March 12 - {acf_end_date: j} {acf_start_date: Y}
    Harrogate
    plant
  • Poultry Diagnostic
    October 10 - {acf_end_date: j} {acf_start_date: Y}
    Coventry
    snowflake