Our team had a great time in Philadelphia for the Poultry Science Association's Annual Meeting July 10-13. The University of Saskatchewan had strong attendance with 10 individuals attending the meeting and a total of 10 oral presentations and 2 posters from research conducted at the Poultry Research and Teaching Unit. (Photos can be found at the bottom of this post)
Two members of our lab also received award at the meeting! Tory Shynkaruk was awarded the Tyson Foods Inc. Support Personnel Award, which acknowledges the contributions by support personnel and recognizes outstanding support of research, extension, or teaching programs in poultry science. Sameeha Jhetam received two awards! She was selected as the PSA Hatchery's Student of the Year and also received a Student Research Paper Certificate of Excellence in recognition of her high-quality research presentation at this year's meeting. Karen was invited to present 4 talks this year, 2 symposium and 2 oral presentations. "Reducing turkey stocking density to improve welfare - can there be unintended consequences?" "Live transport of poultry - impacting the welfare and meat quality of birds" "Light spectrum and commercial broiler welfare" Listed below are the oral presentations given by members of our research team: "Optimizing performance of heat stressed broilers through manipulation of dietary starch-to-lipid ratios, apparent metabolizable energy, and digestible amino acid content" - Dilshaan Duhra, PhD candidate "The effects of transport box density on day-of-hatch leghorn chicks" - Sameeha Jhetam, PhD candidate "The impact of light flicker and strain on aggressive behaviours, fear, and stress levels of table-egg production pullets reared to 16 weeks of age" - Samantha McPhee, MSc candidate "Effects of LED light flicker on turkey hen performance to 11 weeks of age" - April Hammond, MSc candidate "Measuring physical activity: Is a low-cost activity tacker suitable to determine physical activity in broilers?" - Dr. Carolin Adler, Post-Doctoral Fellow Dr. Denise Beaulieu also gave an oral presentation regarding work done at the Poultry Centre, which two of our students (Zoe Cloutier and Samantha McPhee) assisted with, "The interaction of dietary fat and ergot on broiler performance and ergot alkaloid disappearance". Finally the two posters presented were as follows: "Effects of LED light flicker on turkey hen health to 11 weeks of age" - April Hammond, MSc candidate "The impact of light flicker and strain on production and health of table-egg production pullets reared to 16 weeks of age" - Samantha McPhee, MSc candidate
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