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Scotti Hester
 

Patricia Y Hester

Professor of Animal Sciences

Department: Animal Sciences
Phone: 765.494.8019
Fax: 765.494.9347
Office: POUL 104
E-mail: phester@purdue.edu

Area of Expertise: Physiology, Poultry

 

Education: B.S. and Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Visiting Professorships: Cuddy International, Canada; University of Guelph, Canada

Research Program

Teaching

List of ANSC courses

 

 

- Recent Publications

Fanatico, A. C., P. B. Pillai, P. Y. Hester, C. Falcone, J. A. Mench, C. M. Owens, & J. L. Emmert (2008). Poultry Science. Performance, livability, and carcass yield of slow- and fast-growing chicken genotypes fed low-nutri, 87, 1012-1021.

Wilson, D. A., P. Settar, J. Arango, N. P. O'Sullivan, Y. Y. Li, Z. Lin, & P. Y. Hester (2008). Effect of lighting programs during the growing phase on bone mineralization in egg type chickens. Proc. XXIII World's Poultry Congress.

Zhai, W., S. L. Neuman, M. A. Latour, & P. Y. Hester (2008). Poultry Science. The effect of in ovo injection of L-carnitine on hatchability of White Leghorns, 87, 569-572.

Zhai, W., S. L. Neuman, M. A. Latour, & P. Y. Hester (2008). Poultry Science. The effect of male and female supplementation of L-carnitine on reproductive traits of White Leghorn, 87, 1171-1181.

Kim, W. K., T. M. Herfel, C. S. Dunkley, P. Y. Hester, T. D. Crenshaw, & S. C. Ricke (2008). Poultry Science. The effects of alfalfa-based molt diets on skeletal integrity of White Leghorns., 87, 2178-2185.

Hester, P. Y., P. Talaty, & M. N. Katanbaf (2008). Bone traits in four commercial strains of male meat-type chickens at 1 and 2 weeks of age. XXIII World's Poultry Congress.

Schreiweis, M. A., P. Y. Hester, P. Settar, & D. E. Moody (2006). Identification of quantitative trait loci associated with egg quality, egg production, and body weight in an F2 resource population of chickens. Animal Genetics.

Bennett, A. K., P. Y. Hester, & D. E. MoodySpurlock (2006). Polymorphisms in Vitamin D receptor, osteopontin, insulin-like growth factor 1 and insulin, and their associations with bone, egg, and growth traits in a layer-broiler cross. Animal Genetics.

Talaty, P., P. Y. Hester, & (2006). Life cycle changes in bone mineralization of broilers. Poultry Sci.

Zhai, W., S. L. Neuman, M. A. Latour, P. Y. Hester, & (2006). The effect of in ovo injection of L-carnitine on hatch rate and body weight of White Leghorns. Poultry Sci.

 

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- Awards & Honors

Helene Cecil Leadership Award (2004). Poultry Science Association.

Alltech Student Research Manuscript Award:Single annual award of $500 and a certificate given to a graduate student (Stacey Neuman) for the presentation and the publication as senior author of an outstanding research manuscript (2002 carntitne publication (2002). 2003 Southern Poultry Science Society, Atlanta, GA.

 

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