INCUBATION AND FERTILITY RESEARCH GROUP
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2008 Meeting

Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK

venue: Clinical Tutorial Complex,

Moorfields Hospital, City of London

MEETING INFORMATION: DIRECTIONS, VENUE, HOTELS

3rd-4th September


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IFRG Meeting 2008

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

  Amos Ar
 Prof. (Emeritus) of Physiology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
"Improving hatchability by special eggshell coating" 

Highlights...

Fertility session including...

"Sperm cryopreservation by the pellet method in chickens, turkeys and pheasants – A comparative study" - Silvia Cerolini

Nutrition session including...

   "The role of carotenoids in breeding poultry" - Andrew Ball
                                   
"Egg size and stage of lay effects:  The effects of early feeding on poult feeding behaviour" - Amir Ghane
                                   
"Effect of dietary lysine, linoleic acid and vitamin B of broiler breeders on embryonic growth, hatching parameters and post-hatch performance of their progeny" - Marian Debonne
                                   
"Effect of broiler breeder female feeder space during the laying period on egg production and percentage floor eggs" - Okan Elibol

Incubation including ...

"Effect of continuous turning during incubation on embryonic mortality and hatchability in broilers" - Okan Elibol

"Relationship between day old chick length and body weight in poultry" -  M Petek   

     "Differential effects of high CO2 during the first half of incubation on embryonic chick development according to broiler breeder age and storage time"-
Anouck Witters

"Egg size and embryonic growth: A hypothesis" - Charles Deeming

"The fresh egg quality of eggs from turkey females with high and low  hatchability"-
 L.A. Coad, Nick French & J Powles
"Smallholding incubation and troubleshooting" - Clive Madeiros IFRG sessions

The 2008 meeting will start 1000 on Wednesday 3rd September. It will conclude around lunchtime on Thursday 4th September. The IFRG conference dinner will take place on the evening of Wednesday 3rd.

Download call for papers for IFRG 2008 meeting(.pdf)

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Download report of IFRG 2007 meeting(.pdf)

Abstracts of this meeting are in
Avian and Poultry Biology Reviews (2007), 18(2). ISSN 1470-2061.
link to publisher site

Download report of 30th anniversary meeting(.pdf)

Click here for photographs of meeting participants

 


Any queries about the 2008 meeting should be addressed to:
Dr Victoria Hurst
UK Email: victoria.hurst@bernardmatthews.com
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