The 2010 WPSA, New Zealand Branch Conference was recently held on the 12th and 13th October in Palmerston North. This conference celebrated the 50th anniversary of the WPSA in New Zealand. The conference was a great success with 22 interesting and informative presentations presented by industry, governmental and international speakers. There were over 100 registered attendees.
Download the 2010 WPSA Conference Proceedings. The proceedings contain papers presented at the conference by individual speakers.
Powerpoint presentations:
Keynote address
R.A.M Pym – The Role of WPSA in Promoting Poultry Resarch, Training and Education
Session 1: WPSA in the Past, Present and Future
Mike Cundy – WPSA Activities in New Zealand
John Foulds – New Zealand WPSA – Challenges for the future
Kent Deitemeyer – Moving the branch forward: readdressing the balance of science with husbandry
Juliet Roberts – WPSA Activities in Australia
Session 2: Trends in the Poultry Industry – Past and Future
Ravi Ravindran – Advances and Future Directions in Poultry Nutrition
Joel Penduff – Past progress in layer genetices, predicted advances and challenges
Session 3: Welfare
John Hellstrom (Chair NAWAC) – Poultry Welfare – The NAWAC Perspective
Session 4: Layers
Juliet Roberts – Egg Quality and Food Safety
Lorna Craig – Furnished Colony System
Martin Zuidhof – Current Issues in Broiler Breeder Nutrition
Session 5: Nutrition
Andreas Kocher – Discovering New Frontiers in Gut Health – Quo Vadis AGP?
Evonik Degussa – Effect of heat treatment on soybean meal & DDGS quality
David Mair – Organic Acids and Essential Oils
Session 6: Poultry health
Peter Groves – The Evolution of Poultry Diseases
Neil Christensen – Preliminary trials of in-vitro efficacy of miticides against the chicken mite in NZ
Session 7: Hot topics/ General
Martin zuidhof – Models in Broiler Nutrition: A Quest for Optima
Rick Carter – Manipulating fat digestion and absorption to improve efficiency