Silversides, Fred, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, poultryContact Information:
6947 # 7 Highway
PO Box 1000
Agassiz, British Columbia V0M 1A0
Telephone: 604-796-1725
Fax: 604-796-0359
Email: fred.silversides@agr.gc.ca
Areas of Expertise:
- supplements and additives
- chicken
- broiler
- layer
- turkey
- egg/chick
- eggs
- poultry meat
- conventional and new feedstuffs
- digestibility
- enzyme
- quality
- production efficiency
- digestibility
- growth
- feedstuff evaluation
- breed differences
- feedstuff utilization
- for production
- poultry
- nutrient availability
- nutrient requirements
- by-product management
- feeding systems
- animal husbandry
- poultry welfare
- poultry genetics
- japanese quail
- Investigation of methods to improve poultry welfare; evaluation of feestuffs and feeding methods to imcrease nutrient utilization and production efficiency of poultry; maintenance of avian genetic resources; transplantation and cyropreservation of avian gonads.
Current Projects:
- Acquire, maintain and distribute genetic resources of relevance to Canadian and international agriculture, consistent with Canada's commitments to implementing the Plant Genetic Resource Treaty
- Poultry welfare and behaviour
- Development of new feeding strategies to improve poultry production
- NIRS within a grain classification, valuation and quality determination platform (poultry bioassay for barley)
Affiliations:
- Adjunct professor, University of British Columbia
- Member of Board of Directors, Rare Breeds Canada
- WPSA-Canada representative to Poultry Science Association
- President, World's Poultry Science Association - Canada Branch
- Member of Scientific Advisory Committee, Canadian Poultry Research Council
- Member of Farm Animals Subcommittee, Canadian Council of Animal Care
- Member of BC SPCA Certified Broiler Advisory Committee