POULTRY SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
91st ANNUAL MEETING ABSTRACTS

August 11-14, 2002, Newark, Delaware


Also Contains Abstracts from 2002 Concurrent Meeting
Southern Poultry Science Society
Southern Conference on Avian Diseases

Ancillary Scientists Symposium
Genetic Technology Applied to Poultry Production . . . 1

National Extension Workshop . . . 3

Environment and Management
Broiler Breeding . . . 3

Immunology . . . 6

Nutrition A
Phytase . . . 10

Processing and Products
Egg and Carcass Microbiology . . . 13

Environment and Management
Hatching Eggs and Other . . . 15

Extension and Instruction . . . 19

Nutrition A
Growth and Development . . . 21

Nutrition B
Energy and Amino Acids I . . . 24

Physiology
Reproduction I . . . 28

Environment and Management
Layers . . . 31

Genetics . . . 35

Nutrition A
Minerals . . . 37

Nutrition B
Feed Ingredients . . . 41

Physiology
Reproduction II . . . 44

Processing and Products
Carcass Microbiology . . . 47

Current Applications, Futue Prospects and Alternatives for the Use of Antimicrobials in Poultry Production . . . 50

O. J. Cotterill Egg Science Symposium
Eggs and Egg Components for Wellness . . . 51

Environment and Management
Broilers . . . 52

Nutrition B
Energy and Amino Acids II . . . 55

Pathology . . . 58

Physiology
Other Physiology . . . 61

Processing and Products
Meat Quality . . . 63

Agro-Terrorism Symposium
Biological Threats and Biosecurity Measures . . . 65

Current and Future Prospects for Induced Molting in Layer Hens . . . 66

POSTERS

Nutrition A . . . 67

Physiology A . . . 78

Pathology . . . 84

Genetics . . . 86

Nutrition B . . . 89

Environment and Management . . . 96

Immunology . . . 103

Extension and Instruction . . . 105

Physiology B . . . 106

Abstracts from Concurrent Meetings of the Southern Poultry Science Society 23rd Annual Meeting
The Southern Conference on Avian Diseases, 43rd Annual Meeting . . . 111