Sustainable Poultry Farming
Spring – March 14
– 15
, 2024
Harrogate
Spring Meeting
Location: Harrogate
Hotel Details
The Crown Hotel
Crown Place
Harrogate
HG1 2RZ
Phone: 01423 567755
Email: Reservations@crownhotelharrogate.com
Website: https://www.crownhotelharrogate.com
With a history dating back over 300 years, alongside an enviable location just moments from many of Harrogate’s most popular sites, The Crown Hotel combines beautiful surroundings with a storied past and luxurious facilities. An ideal location for business and leisure trips.
The Crown boasts individually-styled accommodation across its 115 guestrooms, modern amenities, and ornate dining, all set within the charming old town of Harrogate itself and within easy reach of the Harrogate Convention Centre.
THURSDAY, 14 March 2024, SESSION: 11.00 AM – 5.00 PM
10:50 am
Michael Clark
BVPA President
Welcome and opening remarks
11:00 am
Kiss Marton
Hungary
Current challenges in waterfowl healthcare and biosecurity in Europe The Keith Gooderham Waterfowl Lecture
12:00 pm
Laura Higham
Faifarms
Benchmarking sustainability performance in free-range laying hen flocks
12:30 pm
LUNCH BREAK
1:30 pm
Ilias Kyriazakis
Queens Belfast University
Trade-offs in the enhancement of sustainability of poultry systems
2:15 pm
Patrick Wall
You are in the Human Health Business
2:45 pm
Libby Syddall
Nestera.eco
Improving Sustainability in Backgarden Poultry
3:15 pm
Tea/Coffee Break
3:45 pm
Maire Burnett
British Poultry Council
British Poultry: Food Led Sustainability
4:15 pm
Gary Ford
BEIC
Sustainable table egg production in UK
4:45 pm
Open discussion: All Speakers & All Participants
5:10 pm
BVPA Annual General Meeting – members only
8:00 pm
BVPA 2024 Spring Meeting Dinner
After Dinner Speaker: Dr Anna Judson, BVA President
FRIDAY, 15 March 2024, SESSION: 9.00 AM – 12.00 NOON
9:00 am
Ian Brown
APHA
Do we still need to concern about HPAI: recent reflections and future landscape?
9:40 am
Ian Brown
APHA
Questions & Answers & Discussion: Speaker & All Participants
10:00 am
Wachiraporn Sansom
University of Liverpool
Effect of water acidifier on control of ST in commercial broiler chickens
10:30 am
Tea/Coffee Break
Clinical and Related Papers
11:00 am
Kannan Ganapathy
University of Liverpool
RCVS CertAVP (Poultry) – University of Liverpool; National Egg & Poultry Awards - Young Farm Vet of the Year: 2024
11:20 am
Julia Currums
Crowshall Veterinary Services
The ducks’ tail
11:40 am
Will Ingham-Farrow
Poultry Health Services
Salmonella typhimurium and antibiotic resistance in pigeons and the risks it poses to the poultry sector.
12:00 pm
Announcements & End of meeting
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 - 27 2026Harrogate
Poultry Bacterial Diseases
November 13 - 14 2025Coventry
Poultry Management Innovation
March 12 - 13 2025HarrogatePoultry Diagnostic
October 10 - 11 2024Coventry