EIC Research

Through the years, the Egg Industry Center has been involved in numerous research projects. Highlighted below is our current work and to the right we have highlighted some of our more widely known work. All information listed here may be used for broadcast, digital or print publication for free.

Topic Area	Project Title
Animal Welfare	Quantifying individual hen’s feeding and nesting behaviors in group housing and the impact of resource allocation on these responses
Animal Welfare	Evaluating effects of LED vs. CFL lighting on behaviors and production performance of pullets and laying hens
House Environmental Control	Mitigation of ammonia and PM generation in litter-floored cage-free hen housing systems
House Environmental Control	Evaluation of an electrostatic air filtration system in a high-rise layer house
Environment	Study of EPA's Draft Emission Models
Disease	Air and environmental sampling of infected poultry (layer and turkey) barns to determine dust as a possible carrier of the HPAI virus
	Assessment of the relationship between HPAI outbreaks and weather pattern through meteorological modeling
	Modeling of ventilation shutdown (VSD) to help stop HPAI virus transmission
	Heat treatment of egg flats to ensure biosecurity

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The Egg Industry Center

Adding value to the U.S. Egg Industry by providing scientific information and data analysis to egg producers and processors, their associations, allied industry and today's data-minded consumers. The Egg Industry Center is administered by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University.

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