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In 2021, the meeting was conducted virtually with approximately 600 participants, but this year the attendance went back to over 1,000 people that have had since 2011. 

It is expected that this Forum will keep growing to reach again the 1,765 attendees registered in 2018. 

Three hundred sixty scientific communications were presented this year, 208 short oral presentations, and 152 posters. 

These research reports are offered by groups from universities, represented mainly by graduate students, professors, and also personnel from poultry and feed allied industry companies. 

The information discussed in this conference includes all poultry production and health areas, split into rooms for each topic. The subject matters include: 

Physiology 

Endocrinology 

Reproduction 

Teaching, pedagogy and extension 

Processing and products 

Pathology 

Metabolism, and nutrition 

Nutrition is the most popular topic, with almost one-third of the presentations. There are sessions in: 

General nutrition 

Vitamins 

Minerals 

Enzymes 

Feed additives, and 

Amino acids 

These talks or posters also include reports of feed ingredient and quality evaluations, methodologies to evaluate energy and nutrient content and feed processing methods. 

Among the hundreds of papers presented, we would like to summarize key findings that could interest our readers and have not been discussed in previous articles. We will discuss diverse information related to all poultry species in health, management, nutrition, and processing. 

Let’s start with new findings in Histomona control for turkeys

Histomoniasis is one of the biggest challenges worldwide due to the lack of effective additives for turkey production prevention. It is also becoming more common in broiler breeders and chickens (Figure 1). 

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                                  Figure 1. Illustrates Histomonas meleagridis.

Researchers from North Carolina State University (Cupo et al.) reported gene expression findings related to the differences between broilers and turkeys on immune response against Histomonas meleagridis. 

  • Both species can get infected, but turkeys are more likely to develop a disease. 
  • The RNA sequencing indicated that turkeys have a greater physiological response to H. meleagridis than chickens five days post-inoculation. 
  • Five to nine times more differentially expressed genes were
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