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Topics


Nutrition

Feed and feedstuffs – Feed technology - Digestion – Flora gut – Feeding behaviour – Additives – Metabolism – Requirements of growing and laying birds – Use of by-products – Feeding systems

Pathology

Emerging poultry diseases – Evolution of prophylaxis and diagnostic methods

Product Safety

Enriched products and human benefit – Bio security in commercial poultry production – Chemical pollutants – Poultry product processing and microbiological status – Salmonella and Campylobacter

Welfare and Behaviour


Welfare evaluation and management on farm – Welfare regulation – Welfare and behaviour in alternative poultry production systems – Poultry industry and welfare challenge

Economics and Marketing

Consumer expectations – Market segmentation

Education

Educational requirements for the poultry industry – New learning venues (distance education, internet)

Environment

Competition for the use of land – Reduction and valorisation of manure – Environmental constraints and impact on feed formulation – Poultry housing – Energy and water economy – Poultry housing

Genetics

Methods of selection on new production traits – Recent data obtained with QTL research and micro array tool – Management of genetic diversity – Epigenetic

Product (Egg and Meat) Quality

Non-food uses of egg compounds - Bioactive egg components – New technological methods (egg fractionation, evaluation of freshness of egg shell) – Traceability of meat products – Muscle characteristics and meat processing – Factors influencing meat quality from farm to slaughterhouse – Muscle growth and meat quality

Production Systems

Free-range and organic systems – Family poultry production

Reproduction

Rearing reproducing birds – Artificial insemination – Preservation of gametes – Embryonic development and incubation – Plasticity of sexual reversion – Germinal differentiation