No current modeling tool accounts for all the necessary factors to validate a thermal process for ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry; some do not address Salmonella and/or important product/process attributes, and most have not been validated against industry-relevant data. The…
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Infectious bursal disease (IBD) was first recognized in 1962 and is presently one of the most economically significant immunosuppressive diseases affecting most poultry producing regions worldwide. The most severe form of the disease in terms of severity of clinical signs, lesio…
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) is a biological conversion technology which is being used to produce bioenergy all over the world. This energy is created from biological feedstocks, and can often use waste products from various food and agricultural processors. Biogas from AD can be us…
Light Turkey Syndrome (LTS) is characterized by lower than expected body weights of tom turkey flocks at market. Turkey producers have taken notice of LTS over the last five years. During brooding from two to three weeks of age is when weight gains begin to fall below what had p…
Cyanosis is an important category of condemnation of poultry in Canada characterised by dark musculature. Studies were conducted to determine cyanosis incidence, seasonal pattern, risk factors and tissue characteristics. The research tested the hypothesis that cyanosis is a dark…
The effect of poultry meat (represented by mechanically separated turkey) and sodium tripolyphosphate on residual nitrite was studied in wieners used as a model system. It has been shown that wieners made with mechanically separated turkey (MST) retained more residual nitrite th…
The purpose of this study was to develop a dynamic empirical framework to investigate: (1) beef and pork prices and quantities, (2) beef and pork prices and quantities when supply-demand interactions from the poultry sector (broiler prices and quantities) are allowed in the mode…
In comparison to the adult birds, young chickens and turkeys have a reduced ability to use dietary fat. It was of interest to investigate the role of lipase in fat malabsorption in young birds. It was hypothesized that fat malabsorption in young chickens and turkeys is due to an…
Fresh chicken drumsticks were rinsed with distilled water or salt solution and vacuum skin packaged using three oxygen transmission rates (OTR) of films (2</super>/24 hr). Salt rinsing decreased surface lightness of the lean tissue. Higher OTR films maintained surface redness be…
The factors which influence the age-related decline in production performance and increases in meat toughness in broiler breeder hens are poorly understood. We have hypothesized that the elevated plasma concentration of glucose contributes to the nonenzymatic attachment of gluco…
The objective of this research was to evaluate the effect of heat processing on amino acids. Heat processing of ingredients for livestock and poultry feeds has become standard practice over the last 50 years. Pelleting and extrusion are technologies used to improve nutrient util…
A series of studies were conducted to determine how intestinal function in animals could be manipulated by exogenous administration of peptides. In all bird studies, epidermal growth factor (EGF) or peptide YY (PYY) was administered three days prior to hatching (US Patent #5,916…
An extensive literature review and comparative analysis of heat and moisture production (HP, MP) of various poultry types (layers, broilers, and turkeys) and their housing systems indicated that total heat production (THP, W/kg) has increased over the years by about 15 to 44% (1…
A total of six experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of supplementing specific nutrients including menhaden fish meal (MFM), spray-dried plasma (SDP), glutamine (GLN), glutamate (GLU), monosodium glutamate (MSG), nucleotides (NUC), and a hatchling supplement (Oasis)…
A predictive model for moist-air impingement cooking of ground-and-formed meat and poultry products was developed. A coupled heat and mass transfer model incorporating the effects of fat transfer was combined with a model for Salmonella inactivation, to produce a complete predic…
Birds have high metabolic rates, body temperatures, and plasma glucose concentrations yet physiologically age at a rate slower than comparably sized mammals. The antioxidant activity of uric acid was studied. Study 1 consisted of 18 female broilers consuming inosine or hypoxanth…
The main objective of this study is to provide information that may help the Canadian chicken (turkey) industry in finding additional opportunities in the international market. Currently, the international market is regulated with trade restrictions (different countries have dif…
A relatively new instrument known as a Sperm Quality Analyzer ® (SQA) offers a rapid assessment of sperm quality and quantity by providing a sperm quality index (SQI). The SQA measures the intensity of sperm activity and motile concentration by determining the number and amplitu…
HPAI H5N1 is considered endemic in Indonesian poultry and poses a major challenge to animal and human health authorities. Although the Indonesian government formulated policies to manage the threats and consequences of HPAI, this approach was not holistic due to limited resource…