Teaching
Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:00 - 13:00
Tuesday, Thursday: 16:00 - 17:00
Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria Strada Prov.le per Casamassima Km, 3 70010 Valenzano (Ba)
Available by appointment on Teams platform.
News and alerts
- The Course of Avian Diseases is scheduled on the forth bimester in the third year of the Course of Veterinary Medicine
- The Course of Management and Recovery Techniques of Wild Birds is held in the 2nd quarter of the 3rd year of the Animal Science Degree
- The practical training in Avian Pathology for students of the Veterinary Medicine Course starts from the 4th week of June.
Lessons courses in the 2022-23
Veterinary Medicine
- Infectious Diseases Module 2: "Avian Diseases "
Post-Graduated School in "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Veterinary Police".
- Infectious diseases of poultry, rabbit and game animals.
Post-Graduated School in 'Inspection of food of animal origin'.
- Infectious diseases of “other” poultry species.
- Avian Diseases.
PhD School in " Animal Health and Zoonosis ".
XXXVII - XXIXth Cycle - Avian Diaseases
Degree Course in Animal Sciences (L38)
- Module of Terrestrial Wildlife Management and Recovery Techniques: - WILD BIRDS MANAGEMENT AND RESCUE TECHNIQUES
Teaching Programs
Avian Diseases (For students in Veterinary Medicine)
The Course is focused on the main infectious diseases of poultry
Topics
- Introduction to the course.
- Organization of the poultry sector and related sanitation issues
- Biosecurity. Definitions and application in intensive farming
- Avian Influenza
- Infectious Laryngotracheitis
- Newcastle Disease
- Infectious Bronchitis
- Fowl Pox
- Gumboro Disease
- Avian Adenovirus Infections; EDS 76; Avian Encephalomyelitis
- Marek's Disease
- Malabsorption Syndrome
- Running Stunting Syndrome
- Avian Coccidiosis, prophylaxis strategy in intensive farming
- Avian Salmonellosis: Fowl Typhoid and Pullurosis
- Avian Salmonellosis: Paratyphosis
- Avian Cholera
- Mycoplasmosis
- Avian Colibacillosis and Clostridiosis
- Avian Anemia
- Avian Chlamydiosis
- Clostridiosis
Practical Activities:
Poultry management. Morphological and Evaluation of chickens
Clinical exam of birds; Biosecurity in poultry farms: Exam of skin and plumage; detection of injuries;
- Necroscopic examination of poultry and birds
- The exam of the sinuses and the first airways, sinuses, larynx, pharynx and trachea
- The deep respiratory apparatus and respiratory diseases
- The digestive apparatus and related diseases
- The urogenital system of poultry and related diseases
- The cardio-circulatory apparatus and related diseases (Sudden death disease; ascites syndrome; Oregon Syndrome)
- The lymphoid system and related diseases.
- Sampling techniques: Methods of collection, storage and manipulatuion of samples
- Necropsy findings and diagnostic hypotheses
Teaching materials
- Lecture notes
- Asdrubali G., Fioretti, A. Manuale di Patologia Aviare, Ed. Point Veterinaire Italie , 2010
- Diseases of Poultry, 14th Edition- David E. Swayne Wiley-Blackwell, 2017
- Saif Calnek B.W. Barnes H.J., Beard C.W., Mc Dougald L.R. and Saif Y.M. Patologia Aviare, 10 edizione, Ed. Piccin, 2001.
- Pattison M., McMullin P., Bradbury J., Alexander D., Poultry Diseases, 6th Edition. Saunders Ltd, 2007.
- Randall C.J. A Colour Atlas of Diseases and Disorders of Domestic fowls and Turkeys. Mosby, 1990.
WILD BIRDS MANAGEMENT AND RESCUE TECHNIQUES
The course aims to introduce students to the managing techniques of protected and non-protected wild birds species when admitted to the Wildlife Rescue Centers, in order to properly release them in suitable areas
Topics
Learning outcomes of the Course; Placement of the course within the training of the student in the Animal Sciences Degree
Aims of the Course, criteria adopted for the student’s evaluation; minimum knowledge, skills and abilities to be achieved.
Wildlife Rescue Centers: Tasks, purposes and structural requirements.
National and European legislation to apply in the rescue centers and for wild birds.
Resident and migratory wild birds. Identification of wild birds and biological characteristics
First aid of wild birds.
Handling and restraint of wild birds
Birds of prey feed and feeding techniques ;
Waterbirds nutrition and food administration techniques;
Passerines feed and feeding techniques;
Swallows, swifts and house martins feed and feeding techniques;(Training)
Chick imprinting and methods to avoid it;
The Hacking technique.
Alien species and their management
Teaching materials
- Lecture notes
- BSAVA: Manual of Raptors Pigeons and passerine birds; Chitty, Lierz Eds 2016
- BSAVA: Manual of wildlife casualties Mullineaux and Keeble Eds 2016