Today, we are talking with Dr. Rodrigo Gallardo, a Poultry Veterinarian from UC Davis. In this episode, we will talk about Fowl Pox, what causes the disease, how to prevent infection, and what to do if your birds get infected. This is an episode of Bred to Perfection that you do not want to miss.
Along with Fowl Pox, Dr. Gallardo talks to us about his new program,
“The Gamefowl Wellness Program.” This is a vaccination program for the prevention of Newcastle’s Disease. Mainly for residence in California. If this program is successful, it means we will have a product available in all our feed stores to deal with the looming threat of Newcastle’s Disease.
Topics of discussion include:
- We talk about the Causes of Pox
- We talk about how the disease is spread
- Incubation time?
- We talk about the Symptoms you can expect with Pox
- We talk about Recovery time
- We talk about the Rate of Mortality that can be expected.
- How to Prevention Fowl Pox
- How to treat your fowl for Fowl Pox
I would like to encourage you to listen to these episodes’ multiple times. I believe you will learn something each time you listen to them.
We specialize in the breeding of gamefowl and chickens, and other breeding related topics. This includes the proper use of breeding programs.
Also, it’s our mission to provide our members a greater understanding of poultry genetics, poultry health care and disease prevention, and how to improve the production and performance ability of their fowl.
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Our guest: Dr. Rodrigo Gallardo
Associate Professor and Associate Professor in Residence
Department of Population Health & Reproduction
UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Here is information taken directly from the UC Davis website:
New Gamefowl Wellness program for your birds!
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- A gamefowl wellness program will be designed to address education, outreach and surveillance in game bird flocks. Scientific terminology will be broken down in a practical message to keep owners educated and engaged.
- By paying a small program fee, participants will be trained on educational topics including immune response basics, breeding, animal welfare, behavior, nutrition, disease detection and prevention, management practices, biosecurity, euthanasia and proper disposal, vaccination technique, egg incubation, and prevention of loose birds in neighborhoods.
- Focus group meetings and training events will be hosted with experts from UC Davis and the CAHEN program from the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA).
- The program will provide training to breeders on proper administration and justification of Newcastle disease vaccine use.
- All Personally Identifiable Information of participants will be maintained and administered by UC Davis.
For additional information, please contact poultry@ucdavis.edu.
Poultry website: https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/poultry-health
