Dr Amy Moss
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in poultry nutrition - School of Environmental and Rural Science
Biography
Dr Amy Moss is a postdoctoral fellow researching nutritional strategies to improve the efficiency and sustainability of chicken-meat production.
In Australia, 664 million chickens are grown annually to satisfy the large per capita consumption of 48.6 kilograms of chicken meat per person in 2018. Poultry feed accounts for 70% of production cost and remains an important avenue to improve the efficiency of chicken-meat production; reducing the inputs required and therefore lessening the environmental footprint.
To enhance the efficiency and sustainability of chicken meat production, Dr Moss’ areas of interest include whole grain feeding, exogenous enzyme inclusion, digestive dynamics, feeding behaviour and reduced crude protein diets. Dr. Moss’ current research projects include building a database of nutrient specifications for Australian feed ingredients to assist nutritionists and researchers with diet formulation, and exploring the precision feeding of broilers which involves monitoring feeding patters of individual birds and relating this with their feed efficiency, gut integrity, digestion of the feed, and gut health.
Dr. Moss has gained recognition both nationally and internationally as an expert in poultry nutrition with over 60 scientific communications including 22 published journal papers authored over the past 3 years.
Qualifications
Doctorate of Philosophy, Veterinary Science at The Poultry Research Foundation, The University of Sydney
Primary Research Area/s
Poultry NutritionPublications
Moss AF, Chrystal PV, Dersjant-Li Y, Liu SY, Selle PH (2019) The ranked importance of dietary factors influencing the performance of broiler chickens offered phytase-supplemented diets by the Plackett-Burman screening design. British Poultry Science , DOI: 10.1080/00071668.2019.1605154
Moss AF, Liu SY, Selle PH (2018) Progress in comprehending the phytate-phytase axis in chicken-meat production. Animal Production Science doi.org/10.1071/AN17594
Moss AF, Truong HH, Liu SY, Selle PH (2018) Inclusion levels and modes of whole grain incorporation into wheat-based rations differentially influence the performance of broiler chickens. British Poultry Science
59, 110-120.
Moss AF, Chrystal PV, Truong HH, Liu SY, Selle PH (2018) Responses in digestibilities of macro-minerals, trace minerals and amino acids generated by exogenous phytase and xylanase in canola meal diets offered to broiler chickens. Animal Feed Science and Technology 240, 22-30.
Moss AF, Sydenham CJ, Khoddami A, Naranjo VD, Liu SY, Selle PH (2018) Dietary starch influences growth performance, nutrient utilisation and digestive dynamics of protein and amino acids in broiler chickens offered low-protein diets. Animal Feed Science and Technology 237, 55-67.
Moss AF, Sydenham CJ, Truong HH, Liu SY, Selle PH (2017) The interactions of exogenous phytase with whole grain feeding and effects of barley as the whole grain component in broiler diets based on wheat, sorghum and wheat-sorghum blends. Animal Feed Science and Technology 217, 1-12.
Moss AF, Chrystal PV, Truong HH, Liu SY, Selle PH (2017) Effects of phytase inclusions in diets containing ground wheat or 12.5% whole wheat (pre- and post-pellet) and phytase and protease additions, individually and in combination, to diets containing 12.5% pre-pellet whole wheat on the performance of broiler chickens. Animal Feed Science and Technology 234, 139-150.
Moss AF, Chrystal PV, Truong HH, Selle PH, Liu SY (2017) Evaluation of ground grain versus pre- and post-pellet whole grain additions to poultry diets via a response surface design. British Poultry Science 58, 718-728.
Selle PH, Moss AF, Truong HH, Khoddami A, Cadogan DJ, Godwin ID, Liu SY (2018) Outlook: Sorghum as a feed grain for Australian chicken-meat production. Animal Nutrition 4, 17-30.
Truong HH, Moss AF, Liu SY, Selle PH (2016) Pre- and post-pellet whole grain inclusions enhance feed conversion efficiency, energy utilisation and gut integrity in broiler chickens offered wheat-based diets Animal Feed Science and Technology 224, 115-123.
Dunlop MW, Moss AF, Groves PJ, Wilkinson SJ, Stuetz RM, Selle PH, (2016) The multidimensional causal factors of ‘wet litter’ in chicken-meat production. Science of the Total Environment 562, 766-776.
Yin D, Chrystal PV, Moss AF, Choy EKY, Liu SY, Selle PH (2019) Extending daily feed access intervals does not influence lysine HCl utilisation but enhances amino acid digestibilities in boiler chickens. Poultry Science,
doi.org/10.3382/ps/pez200
Yin D, Selle PH, Moss AF, Wang Y, Dong X, Xiao Z, Guo Y, Yuan J (2019) Influence of starch sources and dietary protein levels on intestinal functionality and intestinal mucosal amino acids catabolism in broiler chickens. Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 10:26, doi.org/10.1186/s40104-019-0334-9.
Truong HH, Yu S, Moss AF, Partridge GG, Liu SY, Selle PH (2017) Phytase inclusions of 500 and 2000 FTU/kg in maize-based broiler diets impact on growth performance, nutrient utilisation, digestive dynamics of starch, protein (N), sodium and IP6 phytate degradation in the gizzard and four small intestinal segments. Animal Feed Science and Technology 223, 13-22.
Truong, HH, Chrystal, PV, Moss, AF, Selle, PH, Liu, SY (2017) Rapid protein disappearance rates along the small intestine advantage poultry performance and influence the post-enteral availability of amino acids. British Journal of Nutrition 118, 1031-1042.
Truong HH, Khoddami A, Moss AF, Liu SY, Selle PH (2017) The potential of rapid visco-analysis starch pasting profiles to gauge the quality of sorghum as a feed grain for chicken-meat production. Animal Nutrition 3, 11-18.
Sydenham CJ, Truong HH, Moss AF, Selle PH, Liu SY (2017) Fishmeal and maize starch inclusions in sorghum-soybean meal diets generate different responses in growth performance, nutrient utilisation, starch and protein digestive dynamics of broiler chickens. Animal Feed Science and Technology 227, 32-41.
Liu SY, Truong HH, Khoddami A, Moss AF, Thomson PC, Roberts TH, Selle PH (2016) Comparative performance of broiler chickens offered ten equivalent diets based on three grain sorghum varieties as determined by response surface mixture design.Animal Feed Science and technology
218, 70-83.
Selle PH, Truong HH, Khoddami A, Moss AF, Roberts TH, Liu SY (2016) The impacts of hammer-mill screen size and grain particle size on the performance of broiler chickens offered diets based on two red sorghum varieties.British Poultry Science DOI: 10.1080/00071668.2016.1257777
Selle PH, Truong HH, McQuade LR, Moss AF, Liu SY (2016) Reducing agent and exogenous protease additions, individually and in combination, to wheat- and sorghum-based diets interactively influence parameters of nutrient utilisation and digestive dynamics in broiler chickens. Animal Nutrition 2, 303-311.
Liu SY, Chrystal PV, Cowieson AJ, Truong HH, Moss AF, Selle PH (2017) The influence of the selection of macronutrients coupled with dietary energy density on the performance of broiler chickens.PloS one 12, e0185480.
Liu SY, Fox G, Khoddami A, Neilsen KA, Truong HH, Moss AF, Selle PH (2015) Grain sorghum: a conundrum for chicken-meat production. Agriculture 5, 1224-1251.
