Grant recipients include Texas Tech, South Dakota State, Georgia Southern and North Carolina State universities, as well as the USDA – Agricultural Research Service.
Funding supports higher-education institutions that do not have poultry science departments or degrees but demonstrate ways of connecting students with the poultry industry.
Researchers develop a genotyping assay suitable for clinical samples with higher discriminatory power than previously used infectious laryngotracheitis virus
genotype assays.
Researchers study the longitudinal assessment of skeletal and cardiac structures in broilers reared under slow versus fast growth rate regimen and its relation to manifestation of lameness, ascites and woody breast condition.