Fibre in poultry rations and its relationship with broiler performance and gut health
Mingan Choct / University of New England, Australia
Choct is a professor of animal nutrition at the University of New England in Australia. His academic interests include carbohydrate chemistry and nutrition, feed enzymes, necrotic enteritis and net energy. He published over 350 papers and supervised more than 50 postgraduate students to date. He has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including Australian Animal Production Society’s Young Scientist Award (1990), World’s Poultry Science Association’s “Syd Wilkins Prize” (1991), Australian Poultry Award (2004), Alltech Global Excellence Medal (2005), UK Animal Science Society’s “Fraser Gordon Medal” (2008) and UK Feed Industry Association’s “Poultry Nutrition Research Award” (2015).