Day 1: 25th September 2008

Spotlight on the impact of nutrition on health

8.15am
Registration

9:30am
Welcome

9:45am
What is the future of a calf born in 2008?: The economics of the calf industry
Pierre Sans
ENV Toulouse, France

10:30am
Colostrum quality: Risk factors and management issues to reduce failure of passive transfer
Jud Heinrichs
Pennstate University, USA

11:15am
Coffee break

11:45am
Health risk factors in calves and the importance of trace element status
Francis Enjalbert
ENV Toulouse, France

12:30pm
Lunch

13:30pm
Trace element impact on neonatal adaptation in calves
Frédéric Rollin
Liege University, Belgium

2:15pm
Nutrition and immunity in the new born calf: New advances
David Wilde
Alltech, UK

3:00pm
Coffee break

3:30pm
Solid feed in (veal) calves: Effect on behavior, rumen development, pathology and performances
Kees van Reenen
Wageningen-UR, Netherlands

4:15pm
Optimising the growth and nutritional programmes of calves
Alex Bach
Irta, Spain

Day 2: 26th September 2008

Spotlight on calf pathologies

8:30am
Introduction

8:45am
Diagnosis of calf scours: A practical approach
Yves Millemann
ENV Alfort, France

9:30am
Life support and resuscitation of the ill newborn calf
Berangère Ravary
ENV Alfort, France

10:15am
Coffee break

10:45am
Acidosis in calves: Recent advances
Ingrid Lorenz
University College Dublin, Ireland.

11:30am
Respiratory diseases in calves: An overview
François Schelcher
ENV Toulouse, France

12:15pm
Protozoal infections of the digestive tract: Old diseases with new prospects
Bruno Polack
ENV Alfort, France

1:00pm
Lunch

2:00pm
The monitoring of farm health
Hélène Leruste
ISAB

2:45pm
Case scenarios
Declan O'Rourke
UK Vet

3:15pm
Case scenarios: Practical transfer knowledge from veal calves to large calves
Thierry Lorent
Vet practitioner, France

3:45pm
Conclusions

4.15pm
Closing of Symposium