Avian Science Research Centre

The client groups include: commercial organisations, government funded bodies, visiting scientists and post-graduate students.    Areas that are covered include:

• Investigation of the nutritive value of dietary ingredients
• Study of the effects of dietary additives on the nutrition of poultry
• The interaction between gut-health and nutrition
• Mechanisms involved in the utilisation of nutrients
• Diets and nutrition of organic poultry

Some recent projects include understanding the mechanisms that influence the efficacy of the following:

• Enzymes in poultry diets
• Naturally occurring alternatives to pharmaceutical products
• Assessing the nutritive value of dietary ingredients including: soya, wheat, maize, lupins 
• Vitamins 
• By-products from other industries e.g. biofuel production, brewing and distilling

The benefits to be gained include:

• Improved decision making
• Premium-pricing
• Opportunity to increase added-value
• Enhanced marketing message
• Informing policy 
• Publication in scientific & trade literature
• Informing the public