NUTRITION AND FEEDING
Title: Alternative Feed Additives to Replace Antibiotics and Ionophores in Poultry Diets
Format: Lecture and PowerPoint Presentation
Description: Growth promoting antibiotics (GPA’s) and ionophores have played an important role in the development of modern commercial poultry production in the last 40 years. These feed additives modulate some of the deleterious effects of gut microflora. The increasing resistance of some microorganisms to some of these products, and public concerns for drug residues have made that antibiotics and ionophores are being banned or withdrawn from poultry diets. This presentation will review the variety of alternative feed additives that can replace some of the properties of GPA’s and ionophores. The audience will learn the comparative advantages and disadvantages of their use, and interactions among products.
Time: 35-50 minutes
Audience: Extension agents, poultry service specialists, poultry growers, poultry veterinarians and nutritionists.
Equipment: Digital projector and screen
Contact: Dr. Edgar O. Oviedo, 919-515-5391
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Title: How Direct Fed Microbials Can Improve Poultry Production Criteria
Format: Slides
Description: This presentation provides information and data on how Direct Fed Microbials influence growth, body weight gain, livability, immune function, and nutrients in manure. Data are presented on field trials and controlled experimental trials with Bobwhite quail, Ring Necked pheasants, turkeys, and Pekin ducks.
Time: 45 minutes
Equipment: Slide projector
Audience: Upland wild gamebird, turkey, and Pekin duck producers, Agriculture Extension Agents
Contact: Dr. Jesse Grimes, 919-515-5406
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Title: Influence of Early Nutrition and Development on the Health and Growth Performance of Poultry
Format: Lecture presentation
Description: The development of poultry just before and immediately after hatch is critical for subsequent health and growth performance of commercial poultry. During this critical period, the nutritional status, which is the major constraining factor of early growth and development, can be influenced by broiler or turkey breeder nutrition, hatchery management, and husbandry practices of the hatchlings. This presentation will discuss the importance of early nutrition in poultry production, how in ovo feeding can enhance early development of poultry, and how early feeds and feeding practices can enhance health and productivity of poultry. The audience will learn that the adequate neonatal nutrition is essential for maximizing competitiveness and profitability in poultry production.
Time: 45 minutes
Audience: Extension agents, poultry service specialists, poultry growers, veterinarians
Equipment: Digital projector and screen
Contact: Dr. Peter R. Ferket, 919-515-5409
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Title: Methods to Minimize Environmental Impact Due to Nitrogen Excretion from Poultry
Format: Lecture and PowerPoint Presentation
Description: Nitrogen excretion and air emissions from poultry farms are becoming regulated by some governmental institutions. Poultry growers should be aware of the production concomitant benefits of complying with these environmental laws. In this presentation, some data related to those benefits will be presented, as well as several possible management practices to minimize current dry and air emissions of nitrogen from poultry houses.
Time: 35-50 minutes
Audience: Poultry growers, extension agents, poultry service specialists
Equipment: Digital projector and screen
Contact: Dr. Edgar O. Oviedo, 919-515-5391
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Title: Nutrition and Gut Health of Poultry
Format: Short oral presentation or Workshop session
Description: Nutrition and gut health are intricately related in commercial poultry production. Diet formulation and feed management can have a marked effect on gut health, and gut health greatly influences nutrient utilization of feed. When poultry growers observe their birds are not converting feed as they should or gut health problems arise, they must discern whether the problem is due to bad feed or enteric disease. This presentation discusses how feed and feeding practices influences gut health and how gut health problems can be alleviated by proper nutrition. The audience will learn how to recognize gut health problems caused by bad feed formulation or by bacterial or viral disease challenge.
Time: 30 to 45 minute presentation or a workshop for up to 2 hours.
Audience: Extension agents, poultry service specialists, poultry growers, poultry veterinarians
Equipment: Digital projector and screen
Contact: Dr. Peter R. Ferket, 919-515-5409
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Title: Potential of Nutrition to Reduce Nutrient Emissions from Poultry Operations
Format: Lecture presentation
Description: Nutrients are emitted from poultry operations via the air (i.e. ammonia nitrogen and odiferous compounds), land application of litter (i.e. phosphorus, zinc, copper, nitrogen), and disposal of mortality carcasses. Mineral emission is a function of the balance of input nutrients from the feed, and the nutrients retained and marketed as meat and other poultry products. Although there are biological limits of the amount of dietary nutrients that can be converted into valuable poultry products, nutrient emissions can be reduced significantly by feed formulation and feeding practices. Moreover, nutrients from poultry by-products, such as processing plant offal, mortality carcasses, and litter can be converted to value-added feed products for poultry, livestock, and aquaculture. This presentation will review how nutrient emissions into the environment can be minimized by nutritional strategies. The audience will learn the potential benefits and limitations for nutritional strategy to limit nutrient emissions from poultry operations.
Time: 30 to 45 minutes presentation or a workshop for up to two hours.
Audience: Extension agents, poultry service specialists, poultry growers
Equipment: Digital projector and screen
Contact: Dr. Peter R. Ferket, 919-515-5409
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Title: Poultry Feed and the Quality and Safety of Poultry Meat and Eggs
Format: Lecture presentation
Description: The quality and safety of our food supply is a primary concern for everyone, and the poultry industry is often under close public scrutiny because poultry products consist of a major part of the human diet throughout the world. The public is especially concerned about the contamination of poultry products with food borne pathogens, (such as salmonella, campylobacter, and listeria) and chemical contaminants (such as drug and pesticide residues). Because of arising public demands, there are new market niches for the poultry industry to deliver products that have reduced risk of enteric pathogen contamination, poultry raised free of antibiotics and other drugs, poultry raised free of animal by-products and pesticides, or raised under “organic” or “all natural” husbandry practices. This presentation will discuss nutritional strategies to enhance the public perception of food safety. The audience will learn how feeds can be formulated to reduce the risk of food borne illness, produce “all natural” or “organic” products and still maintain competitive poultry production efficiency.
Time: 45 minutes
Audience: Extension agents, poultry service specialists, poultry growers, veterinarians
Equipment: Digital projector and screen.
Contact: Dr. Peter R. Ferket, 919-515-5409
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