Avian Medicine Club at University of Glasgow

08/03/2022

Parrot Trust Scotland is looking for volunteers! Ways to get involved include:
- feeding and cleaning aviaries at the main site in North Lanarkshire
- helping with rehoming by learning about parrot welfare, educating and supporting potential adopters, transporting parrots
- social media
- fundraising
- general admin

If you are interested, check out their website and email [email protected] with any questions.

www.parrot-trust-scotland.org.uk/

06/03/2022

Have you registered with VIN yet? If not, why not check out their new avian flashcards? Vin is a free online resource for students, with a huge selection of tools to help you study. Register for your free membership Here!

Got any questions? Feel free to contact your VIN champion Claire on [email protected] where she will be happy to help!

18/02/2022

Thank you to everyone who came out for our chicken dissection today! We hope everyone enjoyed it 🐓

18/02/2022

Hi folks

Sorry for the late notice - heres the link for the chicken dissection that is being live streamed.

Cameron Clark is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: chicken dissection
Time: Feb 18, 2022 02:00 PM London

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18/02/2022

This is a closeup of a chicken's o***y. The size is about 1 inch across. At birth, a chicken o***y contains about 4000 ova. Each o**m has the potential to become the yolk of an egg. But a hen may only lay 800 eggs in her lifetime. This o***y came out of an old hen that wasn't laying eggs anymore, and you can see there are many ova left.

Chickens have two ovaries, but only one is ever functional (the left one). It is located at about the center of the backbone. In a laying hen, an o**m develops to become a full size yolk. Once it breaks away from the o***y, it travels down the oviduct where it is covered in albumen (the white), membranes, and shell. This journey takes 24-26 hours before being pushed out.

15/02/2022

Hello fellow Avian Enthusiasts

Now we're all hopefully recovered from the weekend of dreams heres a quick reminder of the events we've got on this week!

Thursday 7:30pm - a talk from Emily a DEFRA approved farm vet whos going to talk about some of the cases shes come across so far in her career!
https://fb.me/e/1V3oKJzX0

Friday 2-4pm - OUR FIRST DISSECTION!!!! We've made the trip to a farm the other week to collect our birds and have a selection of ex-layers and possibly some broilers ready for our fellow avianists to dissect (only if a place has been confirmed by email). There should be enough for one bird each! Please remember your dissection kits and lab coats. We hope to run another of these events very soon for everyone that never managed to get a slot and anyone else interested!

09/02/2022

Save the Date for a continuing education webinar presented by Minh Huynh, DVM, MRCVS, DECZM (Avian), DAZCM. Avian radiography is an invaluable tool to assess internal disorders and to screen for subclinical disease in birds. Coelomic organs can be examined for cardiorespiratory, digestive, or urogen...

09/01/2022

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/man-who-lived-with-20-ducks-is-first-in-uk-to-catch-new-strain-of-bird-flu-1.4772137?fbclid=IwAR3u4j8-jMfaDFTDMPgQdCspOiiWL_LUWlrEOfiUNqkzYlG6gHKZYgYc3jM

Alan Gosland, who had another 100 ducks outside his property, fell ill before Christmas

12/12/2021

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