Pre-registration
16.00 Cándido Carrillo (SPAIN) Welcome Speech "Setting Sail"
Alani Exotics (Iberstruz sl)
Starting from the Americas
Dr. Carole A. Price DVM (USA)
President of the American Ostrich Association
"The American Ostrich Association - History and Accomplishments"
Glinda Cunningham (USA)
Wild Canyon Ostrich Ranch, Texas
"Contract for Custom Hatching & Chick Rearing"
Steve Warrington (USA/UK)
ostrich.com , Chicago
"The World Ostrich Feather Market"
María Judite Zago (BRAZIL)
President of the Brazilian Ostrich Association (ABRE)
"Brazilian Association of Struthiaculture - Objectives, Projects and Accomplishments"
Marco Lopes (BRAZIL)
Dept. of Patologia, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnica, Universidad de Sao Paulo
"Use of Competitive Exclusion in Ostrich Chicks, and the Economical Benefits"
Bernardo Carneiro (BRAZIL)
Veterinarian
ABRE / ACAB Technician Superintendent
"Nutrition and Ostrich Feed for Conditions in Brazil"
SATURDAY 15th OCTOBER 2005
Marco Lopes (BRAZIL)
Dept. of Patologia, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnica, Universidad de Sao Paulo
"The Brazil Ostrich Industry and its Markets"
Passing through Europe
Robert Baronigg (PORTUGAL)
Baronigg Ostrich Farm
"Ways to be Profitable in Ostrich Farming"
Federico Castello (SPAIN)
Royal Official School of Aviculture
"The Ostrich Sector in Spain in 2005: current production and experience in the last 10 years"
Venera Fasone (ITALY)
"The Effect of Stress on Ostrich Meat QUality"
Dr. Alex Balogh (HUNGARY)
President of the Hungarian Ostrich Association
"Ostrich Breeding in Hungary"
Torben Grejsen (POLAND/UKRAINE)
Euro Ostrich
"How to be Successful in Ostrich Production in Eastern Europe"
Savvas Hadjiminas (CYPRUS)
M.E. Ostrich Farms Trading Ltd.
"Marketing Ostrich Meat to the Retail Market"
Ibrahim AK (TURKEY)
Uludag University Faculty of Agriculture, Bursa
"Ostrich Breeding in Turkey - Problems and Opportunities"
Passing through Africa
Sharif El Erian (EGYPT)
Risk Ostrich, Cairo
"Addressing Halal Slaughter and the Market Prospects in Egypt"
Sunday O. Peters (NIGERIA)
Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Ogun State
"The Ratite Industry in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects"
Francois de Wet (SOUTH AFRICA)
Mosstrich
"Ostrich Meat - Can We Escape the Global Trends ?"
Charles Melville (SOUTH AFRICA)
Orange Grove Farms
"Marketing Ostrich Leather"
Peter Cunningham (ZIMBABWE)
Ostrindo
"Lessons from the Broiler Industry for Intensive Ostrich Production"
"Traceability and Farm Management for an Increasingly Concerned Market"
and the Middle East
Ali Hajibabaei (IRAN)
Rozan International Ostrich Co., Tehran
"Ostrich Breeding in Iran"
Keyvan Niamanesh (IRAN)
Iran Ostrich Rancher's Cooperative Co.
"Chick After Transport and Management till 3 months"
SUNDAY 16th OCTOBER 2005
Rayan A. Haydar (SAUDI ARABIA)
Arabian Ostrich Company Ltd (Almunajen Group)
"Egg Production, Nutrition & Heat Effect on Birds Performance in Saudi Arabia"
Jameel Al-Hawamdeh (JORDAN)
United Ostrich Co.
"Ostrich Farming Challenges in Jordan"
Ending in Asia and Australia
Yang Haomin (CHINA)
Shanxi Nong Ken Agriculture
"The Endeavour to Inaugurate a New International Ostrich Production Area - China ?"
Lao Zhang (CHINA)
China Agricultural University, Beijing
"The Growing Ostrich Industry in China"
Michael Hastings (AUSTRALIA)
President of the Australian Ostrich Association
Hastings Ostrich Services Pty Ltd.
"The rise, fall and rise again of the Australian Ostrich Industry - Boom Bust and Commerical Reality"
"Implementation of Genetic Improvement and Performance Recording into Ostrich Breeder Flocks to Produce Elite Ostrich Genetics"
Dr. Philip C. Glatz (AUSTRALIA)
"Quality Assurance Procedures to Improve Skin Quality in Ostriches"
"Best Practice Methods to Declaw Ostriches to Improve Skin Quality"