Nutrition, Physiology and Behaviour: Improving Poultry Production
A special issue of Poultry (ISSN 2674-1164).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2027 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
Interests: nutrition; physiology; poultry diseases
Interests: feed; nutrition; physiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Contemporary poultry production must satisfy many precise parameters encompassing animal performance and welfare, meat quality and market preference. Achieving such targets is challenging with a dynamic sectoral environment governed by shifting trends, costs and unpredictable variables such as climate change and disease challenge. Feed remains a significant proportion of the total cost of production and successful application of poultry nutrition must advance and evolve to preserve productivity and sustainability. The burgeoning advent of advanced and economical scientific and technological tools available to poultry researchers is providing greater resolution of avian biology and behaviour in their environment. These new discoveries are enabling the fine-tuning, revision, or rejection of conventional nutrition dogma, which merits reporting and is the purpose of this Special Issue. Reviews and original research papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to, those suggested below:
- Nutritional requirements across the life cycle
- Feeding the contemporary broiler chicken and laying hen
- Nutritional and energy requirements in outdoor housing systems
- Precision feeding of animals
- Feeding poultry for longevity
- Improving meat quality through nutrition
- Evaluation of contemporary feedstuffs, timing and dosage
Prof. Dr. Isabelle Ruhnke
Dr. Cormac O'Shea
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Poultry is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- nutrition feeding
- physiology
- poultry
- broiler
- layer
- meat
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