BC Fall Dairy Producer Meeting
Tuesday, Nov 29: 10 to 3 (lunch included)
Chilliwack Curling Club, 45550 Spadina Ave, Chilliwack
All dairy producers are invited. No charge.
RSVP to office@greenbeltvet.com or call 604-792-1501
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gordie Jones
Managing Heat Stress in a Warming World and
New Concepts in Dairy Design: The All Season Hybrid Barn
Dr. Gordie Jones is currently an independent dairy performance consultant and a partner of Central Sands Dairy LLC. He has consulted with dairy producers and veterinarians across the U.S. and globally, on dairy herd performance, nutrition, cow environments, dairy housing, and cow comfort. Gordie brings a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to his presentations. You don’t want to miss it.
Other presentations will include:
Salmonella Dublin at the Rayner Dairy Facility
Jay Olyniuk is the herd manager of the Rayner Dairy Research and Teaching Facility at the University of Saskatchewan.
Prevalence of Salmonella Dublin in BC Dairy Herds
Dr. Ellen Boyd is a veterinary epidemiologist at the BC Ministry of Agriculture and a graduate student at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health. She is a key member of the Salmonella Dublin Investigation and Management Program (SDIMP), with her thesis work focusing on establishing the prevalence of Salmonella Dublin in BC dairy farms, while also identifying BC specific risk factors that will hopefully aid in the mitigation and management of this disease in BC.
Salmonella Dublin: A Really Good Reason to Practice Biosecurity
Dr. John Dick is a veterinarian with Greenbelt Veterinary Services and an advisor to the BC SDIMP team.
Presented by Greenbelt Veterinary Services and BC Dairy
Greenbelt Veterinary Services Ltd. is a farm animal practice that has provided reliable veterinary care to the Fraser Valley since 1973. We started as McFee Veterinary Clinic, a single veterinarian practice run by Ron McFee, before forming Greenbelt Veterinary Services in 1982.
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We have grown from that single doctor to our current team of eight veterinarians, offering health services in dairy production and embryo transfer, swine production, and to an extensive list of farm animals including horses, beef cattle, sheep, goats, alpacas, and llamas.
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Our mission is to provide the food production/equine/hobby animal community with exceptional preventative and emergency health care. Through co-operative and professional leadership, we strive to offer innovative animal health education, and production and research services at competitive prices.
African Swine Fever
African Swine Fever (ASF) has been in the news recently due to its increased spread in China, as well as other areas of Asia and Europe. Most people in Canada probably don’t know very much about this disease, even if they have some pigs of their own. This is likely because Canada does not currently have ASF, but that does not mean we are not at risk.
African Swine Fever is a very important disease of pigs across the globe. It is highly contagious, causes severe disease and death, affects pigs of all breeds and ages, and persists for a long time in the environment, carcasses, and pork products. ASF cannot infect humans through direct contact with pigs, nor from eating their meat, but humans are a source of transmission from pig to pig and farm to farm on themselves, their clothes/footwear/vehicles, and in what they feed their pigs.
All people who are in contact with swine have a responsibility to prevent the spread of this disease to Canada. Three primary ways we can help avoid bringing African Swine Fever into our country are:
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Do not bring pork products onto a pig farm
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Ensure people visiting a pig farm are not a potential source of contamination
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Do not feed your pigs any meat products, or other feedstuff that may have come in contact with meat
African Swine Fever is a reportable disease in Canada, and the symptoms are very similar to any other systemic illness that a pig may get. The only way to diagnose ASF is through laboratory tests, so contact our office if you have any sick or suddenly dead pigs.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding African Swine Fever, do not hesitate to contact us at 604-792-1501 or office@greenbeltvet.com
Click here for a quick one-pager for small scale swine producers
Upcoming Events
Fall Producer Meeting – Dr. Gordie Jones presents: Managing Heat Stress in a Warming World
November 29 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm