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5-8 August 2012 |
International Postgraduate Course
Nutrition and Climate, new developments
Date:
18-20 April 2010
Place: Wageningen, The Netherlands
Courseleaders:
Prof. E. Decuypere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Heverlee, Belgium
Dr P.C.M. Simons, World’s Poultry Science Association /
WPSA, Beekbergen, The Netherlands
More information: See Calendar - Education and Training
This third edition differs from the past editions in several meaningful ways. For the first time, the FASS Ag Guide is available online at no cost to readers. In addition, the full name of the FASS Ag Guide has changed. Previous editions were titled the Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Agricultural Research and Teaching. The new edition drops the second use of the word agricultural in the title. Chapters were added to address species handling and transportation and environmental enrichment strategies. The authors of the third edition included experts in each species and in animal care and use, including animal scientists, veterinarians, teachers, and engineers; all were chosen for their prominence in the many fields of animal science so that the best available science could be applied to this revision. The FASS Ag Guide was subjected to peer review and public comment prior to release.
The Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching is available for download (as a PDF) at http://www.fass.org or by contacting the Federation of Animal Science Societies (fass@assochq.org).
Please go to http://www.fass.org/page.asp?pageID=216 to access the FASS Ag Guide.
Please visit this website to have a pleasant memory of attending the XXI International Poultry Symposium of the Polish Branch of WPSA which was held from 7-9 September 2009.
Ewa Lukaszewicz
The Proceedings of the 8th European Symposium on Poultry Welfare held in Cervia, Italy from 18-22 May 2009 are available here.
The Proceedings of the 16th European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition held in Strasbourgh, France from 26-30 August 2007 are available here.
The Impact Factor for the year 2008 for the World's Poultry Science Journal was 1.398 (2007: 1.273). Our ranking in the list of 45 publications in the Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science was 14th (2007: 17/47). US Poultry Science has a rating of 1.668 and British Poultry Science 1.134.
For a detailed citation analysis of the 2008 Impact Factor click here.
The Working Group 5 “Poultry Meat Quality” of the WPSA European Federation has produced a document which could serve as a common base methodology that would permit comparison between researches carried out by different groups, based on international research programmes. This paper represents the first step of this work including chemical and physical traits, while functional properties and sensory traits will be included in additional steps.
As developments in methodology are continuing the input of researchers active in the field of poultry meat quality is necessary. Therefore, the present draft has to be considered rather as a working paper which has to be improved by time than as a final summary of approved methods.
Please, send you comments, amendments and/or inquiries to the current chairman of the working group, Michael Grashorn
(grashorn@uni-hohenheim.de).
You can download the paper here.
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