2ND WPSA SEMINAR
11 April – 2019
Venue: Pattoki Campus
Theme : Optimizing broiler breeder efficiency through emergent skills.
A short, intensive, and rigorous course of working group –VI (Fertility and Incubation)
Explore the knowledge and present the novel trends in breeding poultry for a variety of unsolved situations
Organized by
World’s Poultry Science Association – Pakistan Branch (Northern Zone)
& Poultry Science Club – Department of Poultry Production
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore
SEMINAR OBJECTIVES
The main objective of this course is to prepare the participants for the successful Broiler breeder operation through better management and emergent skills. This course will be provided the technical knowledge and expertise to participants for commercial broiler breeder production. It will also cover various techniques that can result in enhanced fertile egg production and high livability under variety of environments.
CURRICULUM SALIENTS
Focal Person
From Host Institute
(University of Vet and Animal Sciences Lahore)
Prof. Dr. Athar Mahmud
Chairman Department of Poultry Production PhD (UVAS)
Cell# 03008845733
Email:atharmahmud@uvas.edu.pk
Focal Person
From World’s Poultry Science Association
Dr. Nasir Mukhtar
Assistant Professor
PhD (UAF),Post Doc(Roslin-Edinburgh UK)
Cell# 03007200074
Email: nmukhtar@uaar.edu.pk
Duration of course
Medium of InstructionsTraining ProportionTraining PlaceOne Day /06 credit hours per Day
English
Theory 100% Audio visual
Pattoki Campus:University Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore.
SKILL PROFICIENCY DETAILS:
On successful completion of this course, the trainee will be able to:
- Broiler Breeder Management
- Nutrition of Broiler Breeder
- Artificial Insemination in Breeding Flocks
- Optimizing performance through emergent skills
- Male Management
- Climate for optimum growth and welfare
KNOWLEDGE PROFICIENCY DETAILS:
Time
Modules
Speakers
09:30 AM
Seminar Open
Prof. Dr. Athar Mahmud
Chairman Department of Poultry Production UVAS Lahore
09:45 AM
Intellectual Working Groups for Emergent Poultry
Dr. Nasir Mukhtar
Assistant Professor (AAUR)
Vice President WPSA Pakistan Branch
J Vice President Asian Pacific Federation of WPSA
10:00 AMEarly stage essentials for optimum flock performance
Haseeb Akram
Director Punjab Poultry Breeders
Punjab Chicks / Classified Poultry Breeder Entrepreneurship
10:30 AM
Flock Health Monitoring
Dr. Abdul Rashid Shaukat
Specialized Breeder Consultant
GM Sabir’s Poultry Lahore
11:00 AM
Assisted Reproductive Technology in Broiler breeder
Dr. Farhan Farooq
Specialized Broiler & Breeder Consultant
Director KK Poultry Islamabad /
General Secretary WPSA PK Northern Zone
11:30 AM
Health Break
12:00 PM
Nutrition for optimal Fertility & Hatchability
Dr Muhammad Athar
Classified Poultry Nutritionist
GM Hi-tech Feed Lahore
Group Leader; WPSA-PK-Working Group-II-Animal Nutrition & Gut Health
12:30 PM
Male Management & Welfare
Dr Javid Iqbal
Specialized Breeder and Layer Consultant
01:00 PM
Seminar Closed
Meeting of working group-II- Animal Nutrition and Gut Health will be headed by Dr Muhammad Athar (Group Leader)
Prof. Dr. Athar Mahmud
Professor / Chairman Department of Poultry Production
Prof. Athar Mahmud, Chairman Department of Poultry Production is an energetic scientist, did his PhD from UVAS, Lahore. He is well-known for his emergent skill in the field of Broiler, Layer, Breeder and hatchery management. Currently he is Principle Investigator of two projects regarding the utilization of dead bird compost. He has attended national and international conferences /workshops and presented his viewpoint about poultry and animal science.
Dr Muhammad Athar
Classified Poultry Nutritionist
Dr Athar is renowned poultry nutritionist and serving as GM Hi-tech Feed Lahore. He is Group Leader of WPSA-PK-Working Group-II-Animal Nutrition & Gut health. He has attended a large number of conference / workshop in country and Abroad. He has presented his dynamic viewpoints in different poultry conferences, training and seminars.
Mr. Haseeb Akram
Classified Poultry Breeder Entrepreneurship
Mr. Haseeb Akram did his graduation in Poultry Sciences from Scottish Agriculture College, University of Glasgow Scotland-UK. He also holds BSC Honours in Accounting and Economics from University of Hull, England-UK. Currently serving as a Director of Punjab Poultry Breeders and Punjab Chicks, he is a dedicated poultry businessman. Punjab chicks proudly claims of producing 44 million “day old chicks” per annum and 150 thousand eggs are hatched and looked after every day. Punjab Chicks is also a pioneer in exporting these productions in form of hatch-able eggs to other countries like Oman, UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He has presented his dynamic viewpoints about Poultry export at national and international level.
Dr. Nasir Mukhtar
Assistant Professor of Poultry Science
He is a dedicated scientist did his PhD from University of Agriculture Faisalabad and Post Doctorate from Roslin, University of Edinburgh UK. He is pioneer in ostrich farming and commercialization in Pakistan. He is incharge for station for ostrich research and development, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi Pakistan. He is vice president of World’s Poultry Science Association Pakistan Branch and JVP of Asian Pacific federation of WPSA. He is the author of 6 books and 36 peer review articles in national and international journals. He has presented his dynamic viewpoints about Poultry and Ratite research in different international conferences.
Dr. Abdul Rashid Shaukat
Specialized Breeder Consultant
Dr. Abdul Rashid Shaukat was born in Faisalabad on 11th of March 1973. He completed his DVM Degree from University of Agriculture Faisalabad in 1997. His illustrious career was started when he joined Be Be Jan Protein Farms as a “Farm Manager” in 1997. Then he was linked with Broiler Breeding Segment of Poultry Industry. He also spent precious time in Hi-Tech Poultry breeders for five years till 2000 then he choose Sabirs’ Poultry as a “Pioneer” Veterinarian there from 2005. Currently he is working as a production anager (Broiler Breeding Farms) with Sabirs’ Poultry from last 14 years. He has a vast experience in emerging technologies regarding Poultry Health and Monitoring as well as having capabilities to work with novel industrial innovations. He has a lot of potential to solve industrial problems and have abilities to mitigate Poultry related unsolved problems..
Dr. Javid Iqbal
Specialized Breeder and Layer Consultant
He is a Poultry consultant, did his DVM form UVAS Lahore and PhD from Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi. He worked as Farm Manager in AW breeding company and incharge for SB Poultry Disease diagnostic Lab. He is serving as technical expert in Layer breeder farms, Broiler breeder farms, poultry Hatchery, Commercial Layer and broiler farms. He has attended a large number of conference / workshop in country and Abroad. He has presented his dynamic viewpoints in different poultry training programs. He has 07 papers published in various national and international journals
Dr. Farhan Farooq
Specialized Broiler & Breeder Consultant
He in working with the poultry almost by birth, he joined his father business since 2005 just after his completion of DVM. He did MBA (Gold Medalist) and M.Sc. (Hons.) from PMAS-AAUR, currently he is PhD Scholar in Poultry science. He had hands on experience of farm management for all type of birds specially broiler breeder and commercial broiler. He got bundles of trainings/seminars nationally and internationally for poultry house ventilation and management from foreign experts. He has his own poultry business “KK Poultry Breeding Farms, KK Feeds, KK Pharma”. Now he is working as General Secretary World’s Poultry Science Association (WPSA) Pakistan Branch and internationally working as DJVP for APF of WPSA. His topic of research is Artificial Insemination (AI) in broiler breeders, which is most emerging trend in Pakistan poultry industry.
