Get the most out of the electricity on your poultry farm

Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7002350119086478593?linknumber=website to attend “Broiler house nighttime ventilation & LED Lighting,” a webinar sponsored by Chore-Time and presented by WATT Global Media. The webinar will be broadcast on Tuesday, June 23 at 10 a.m. Central. This is the first webinar in the Poultry Grower Webinar Series.
This webinar will discuss two ways that you can make sure that you are getting the most out of the electricity you pay for on your farm. Speakers will discuss how proper ventilation system management during the night can keep your birds eating, growing and converting even during the dog days of summer. LED lighting offers an energy saving alternative to incandescent bulbs, and the webinar will show what has been learned so far about LED lighting for poultry houses.
By attending this webinar, you will learn:


• How nighttime ventilation can impact bird performance in hot weather
• Tips for improving your birds’ hot weather performance
• How LED lights perform in broiler houses
Speakers for this webinar will be Mike Czarick, agricultural engineer at the University of Georgia, and Dr. Brian Fairchild, poultry science professor at the University of Georgia.
Czarick is an agricultural engineer with 30 years of experience as an extension specialist at the University of Georgia. He specializes in poultry house environmental control and energy conservation. He is a highly sought-out speaker on poultry house ventilation because of his ability to help poultry growers make practical improvements that save energy and improve bird performance. Czarick received his training at the University of Georgia and holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in agricultural engineering.
Fairchild is a poultry science professor and extension specialist at the University of Georgia who specializes in broiler management. He has conducted practical research in poultry house ventilation, energy conservation and lighting. He also has investigated the impact of air and water quality on bird performance. Fairchild was educated at North Carolina State University where he received bachelor’s degrees in animal and poultry science as well as a master’s and Ph.D. in physiology.

Improve your feed mill operations with FT-NIR spectroscopy

See why Fourier Transformation-NIR can safely make the difference between good and great progress.
Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/523188680924404226?linknumber=website to attend the webinar, “Feed Mill Operations Improvement Using FT-NIR spectroscopy,” sponsored by Bruker Optics Inc. and presented by WATT Global Media. The webinar will be held Wednesday, June 17, 2015, a 9 a.m. Central.
This webinar will describe straightforward methods for early detection and elimination of manufacturing faults, setting new standards, and moving closer to feed mill production targets by using FT-NIR technology to supply more information, automate responses, and stay within the mill’s man-hour budget. Be introduced to Fourier Transformation, a mathematical technique easily applied and accessed by anyone using a PC with Microsoft Excel software or FT-NIR technology.
By attending, you will learn:


• How to correctly establish sampling frequency
• How to obtain consistently accurate information at high data rates
• Practical applications to implement now
• Emerging applications to watch for
Who should attend:


• Feed, poultry, pig and petfood professionals
• Feed manufacturers, millers, formulators, mixers, sellers
• Nutritionists
• Veterinarians
• Consultants
• C-level feed executives
Speakers for this webinar will be John Smillie, manager, Canadian Feed Research Centre; Dean Roberts, business manager, agriculture, food and feed markets, Bruker Optics; and Howard EuBanks, business development manager, feed and grain, Bruker Optics.

Flock monitoring program key to efficient production

Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6991670562422161409 to attend the webinar, “Developing a Flock Health Monitoring Program, why and how?” sponsored by Biochek and presented by WATT Global Media, on May 27, 2015, at 10 a.m. Central.
Dr. Phil Stayer from Sanderson Farms will explain in this webinar why setting up a flock health monitoring program is important to efficient production.  A health monitoring program can detect problems with the flock before clinical signs are observed and help identify the source of problems once they do occur. With the help of a routine health monitoring program comparisons can be made between different regions, seasons, vaccination programs, flocks and houses.
Stayer will explain how to get the most out of your monitoring program by using both routine post-mortem necropsy and ELISA testing. He will provide detailed information as to what serology reports are optimal in effectively managing a monitoring program. 
Poultry veterinarians, integrators, producers and processors, poultry farm managers, C-level executives, poultry professionals, and allied poultry health professionals should attend this webinar.
What you'll learn:


• Why setting up a monitoring program for flock is important
• How to set up a monitoring program for flock
• How to use ELISA as a tool to maintain healthier flocks
• What tools and reports are optimal to employ
• How to analyze the results of ELISA testing 
Stayer has been the corporate veterinarian for Sanderson Farms Inc. based in Laurel, Mississippi, for the past 13 years.  He grew up in Pennsylvania, graduated from Pennsylvania State University and moved south to attain his DVM from the University of Tennessee.  After practicing small animal clinical veterinary, he returned to graduate school at Mississippi State University to specialize in poultry pathology (M.S.).  He also earned and maintains diplomate status in the American College of Poultry Veterinarians.  Before hiring on with Sanderson Farms, he worked for a primary breeder company and then an animal health company.  He is actively involved in various state and national poultry and veterinary organizations as well as serving as adjunct professor at Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine.

Learn about chicken anemia virus, infectious bursal disease virus

Reduced productive performance and/or damage to immune organs have been associated with infection with chicken anemia virus (CAV) and infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV). In addition, a synergistic effect between CAV and IBDV has also been reported.
Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/121674689 to attend a webinar, “Preventing Economic Losses from CAV and IBDV synergism,” sponsored by Lohmann Animal Health and presented by WATT Global Media, to learn about CAV and IBDV co-infection as well as effective CAV control strategies to maximize poultry health. The webinar will be held Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 8 a.m. CDT.
The fact that both immunosuppressive pathogens are ubiquitous in commercial chicken operations provides ample conditions for interaction and a major challenge for poultry veterinarians and producers. While numerous effective strategies have been developed to control IBDV, vaccination against CAV has not received the same level of attention.  Effective CAV vaccination of breeder flocks providing homogeneous and long-lasting immunity to progeny chickens shall reduce the synergistic effect of CAV with IBDV as well as with other pathogens, and ultimately reduce economic losses. 
By attending this webinar, you’ll learn:


• How CAV and IBDV cause immunodeficiency in chickens
• What scientific evidences support an interaction between CAV and IBDV
• Why effective vaccination and monitoring are essential to reduce CAV associated health problems
The featured speaker for this webinar is Dr. Haroldo Toro, professor of avian diseases, Department of Pathobiology at Auburn University.
Toro received his DVM degree in 1983 and his PhD in 1987 from the Institute of Avian Diseases of Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany. Between 1987 and 2001, Toro worked in the Laboratory of Avian Pathology at the University of Chile College of Veterinary Sciences. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Auburn University of Veterinary Medicine. His current research focuses on further understanding CAV and the interactions of CAV with other avian pathogens as well as further understanding of the infectious bronchitis role. Toro has published 80 peer-reviewed articles in the field of avian diseases and is a member of the editorial board the of the Avian Diseases journal.

Find pet food’s ‘moisture sweet spot’

Most pet food products have a “moisture sweet spot” – an ideal range that maximizes quality and profit while keeping the product safe from mold and microbes.  Water activity is the best way to find that sweet spot – and monitor to make sure you always produce to that specification.
Register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/149511489?linknumber=website to attend the webinar, “Update on Using Water Activity to Manage Safety and Quality in Pet food,” which will be held Tuesday, December 9, 2014, at 10 a.m. CST. This webinar is sponsored by Decagon and presented by WATT Global Media.
By attending the webinar, you will learn:


• How to identify a pet food product’s “moisture sweet spot”
• How testing can reveal a product’s moisture secrets
• How to use water activity to maximize safety, quality, and profit in your products
The speaker for this webinar will be Brady Carter, who has been a senior research scientist at Decagon since 2004. He has a master’s degree in crop science with an emphasis in cereal chemistry. His current research is focused on developing a hydrothermal time-based shelf life model. He is a popular presenter on measuring water activity in food.

Learn how to optimize pig gut health

Optimizing gut health in the young pig is the foundation for efficient growing-finishing performance, and helps to maximize producer profitability. A healthy gut is the pig’s first line of defense, not only against disease-causing organisms, but also against dietary challenges that could negatively impact the pig’s productive performance. 
Register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/298205865?linknumber=website to attend the webinar, “Establishing pig gut health – challenges and considerations,” sponsored by DuPont/Danisco and presented by WATT Global Media. The webinar will be presented Thursday, October 2, 2014, at 8 a.m. CDT.
Pig nutritionists, research and development and operations directors, veterinarians, production managers, purchasing directors, commercial directors in pig integration and feed mill companies world-wide should attend.
During the webinar, we will take an in-depth look at the various criteria that comprise a “healthy” gut, examine aspects of digestive physiology of the young pig after weaning, working toward a better understanding of the various factors that can impact gut microbiota balance. The webinar will examine the effect that some dietary anti-nutrients can have on digestion in the young pig, their consequences for gut health, and how we can potentially alleviate them with appropriate in-feed additives, and also how to deal with challenges in young pig nutrition and gut health in an era of reduced use of antibiotic growth promoters.


Featured speakers
Speakers for this webinar will be Dr. John Pluske and Dr. Gary Partridge.
Pluske is professor and Director of the Animal Research Institute at Murdoch University. He is the Australian-American Fulbright Commission Distinguished Chair in Agriculture and Life Sciences at Kansas State University, and a professor at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. He gained his qualifications at the University of Western Australia, graduating first with a Bachelor of Science (Agriculture) degree and then a PhD, the subject of which was “Psychological and nutritional stress in pigs at weaning: Production parameters, the stress response, and histology and biochemistry of the small intestine.” He has since carried out post-doctoral studies on pig nutrition and health at the Department of Animal Science at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and the School of Veterinary Studies at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He has also worked at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, where he conducted research in pigs and chickens. Pluske returned to Murdoch University in Perth in 1999 and has since worked in several senior roles in the School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences before assuming his current position. His current research is focused on swine nutrition and the digestive physiology of pigs, particularly piglets and weanling pigs, and also swine immune function and controlling enteric diseases in pigs without antimicrobials.
Partridge is global development and technical director at Danisco Animal Nutrition, specializing in swine. Before joining Danisco Animal Nutrition, he worked as a senior researcher at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland and then as a technical swine specialist in a premix company in the U.K. that later became a part of Nutreco. Partridge has penned numerous scientific peer-reviewed papers and abstracts, as well as many trade press articles. He has also given many invited presentations on feed enzyme technology and betaine application in farm animal nutrition at seminars and conferences around the world. A member of the British Society of Animal Science and the Nutrition Society, he is co-editor of the textbook “Enzymes in Farm Animal Nutrition.”

WATT webinar to focus on serology and fowl adenovirus

Fowl adenovirus (FAV) are worldwide-distributed viruses that affect poultry in a wide array of manifestations that vary in form. Attend the webinar “Fowl adenovirus: Using serology to control your flocks” to learn the serological methods used in the diagnosis and monitoring of fowl adenovirus so poultry producers can prevent disease cause by the organism.
The webinar, sponsored by BioChek and presented by WATT Global Media, will be held Tuesday, September 9, 2014, at 9 a.m. CDT. Register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/852546577?linknumber=website to attend.
Special emphasis will be put on the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as a tool for mass screening. Diagnosis of FAV is attained by combination of several techniques, including ELISA as a useful tool. The control of FAV is complex, and involves among others, biosecurity, achieving sero-conversion of parent flocks prior to lay, and avoiding immunosuppression.
Poultry veterinarians, integrators, producers and processors, poultry farm managers, C-level poultry professionals, and allied poultry health professionals should attend this webinar to learn


• What are the pathological conditions caused by FAV
• About serological methods available to diagnose and monitor FAV
• How to use ELISA as a tool to control the impact of FAV and maintain healthier flocks


Featured speaker
The speaker for this webinar will be Dr. Rafael Monleon, business unit manager at BioChek. Monleon graduated with a DVM from University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and with a MSpVM/Residency from North Carolina State University (USA). He is a diplomate of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians and a registered ARPAS Professional Animal Scientist with specialty in Poultry. He has authored several publications in leading journals and industry magazines and is a well-known international speaker that has been invited to multiple meetings and conferences worldwide.
Monleon has been in the poultry industry for more than 12 years and has a broad experience ranging from primary breeding to processing. He worked for the Meat Hygiene Service in the United Kingdom, safeguarding public health in poultry processing operations, then moved to work for Aviagen as regional veterinarian, implementing poultry health plans in the Asia Pacific region. In 2013, he joined BioChek, where he manages product development, technical support, and the link between research and field performance at the customer level.