Courses For Owners And Keepers

DELAY DUE TO COVID19, DATE TO FOLLOW SOON

Courses are run throughout the year by Tom Dutton and the team at Great Western Exotics.

‘Managing reptiles for health and longevity’ – date to be confirmed

This course includes illustrated lectures and a practical session, covering:

Legal implications – recent changes

Husbandry and welfare, including:

• Housing
• Nutrition
• Ultraviolet lighting
• Temperature control
• Cleaning and maintenance

Preventing disease and quarantine

Health and disease in reptiles

• Parasitic – prevention, recognition and treatment
• Infectious disease
• Non-infectious disease
• Husbandry related conditions
• Reproductive disease

Recognition of ill health

First aid and wound management

Speakers:

Tom Dutton, Residency Trained Referral Clinician Avian and Exotic Medicine, BVM&S CertAVP(ZooMed) MRCVS

‘Management of birds of prey for health and longevity’ – date to be confirmed