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)
Download
abstract instructions for IFRG 2008 meeting(.pdf)
Download
booking form for IFRG 2008 meeting(.pdf)
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)
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