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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 
Prestage Department of Poultry Science

Edgar Oviedo

EO

Professor — Poultry Nutrition and Management, and Data Analytics

University Faculty Scholar

Scott Hall 239

919.515.5391
http://go.ncsu.edu/oviedo-lab

Bio

Dr. Edgar Oviedo earned his DVM from University of Tolima in Colombia, his master’s degree from the State University of Maringá, Brazil, his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas, and an MBA from North Carolina State University. Dr. Oviedo is a member of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians. His expertise includes poultry nutrition, feeding, health and management, the effects of broiler breeder management and nutrition on broiler performance, the effects of hatchery and incubation management on broilers, and the evaluation of feed additives and nutritional factors that affect enteric health and meat quality. Dr. Oviedo also manages a program in Data Analytics applications for the Poultry Industry.

Areas of Expertise

  • To improve the understanding of avian bone development and leg disorders in broilers and turkeys;
  • To evaluate feed additives, feedstuffs, feed processing methods, and their effects on intestinal pathobiology, specific immunity against Eimeria spp., and gut microbiota dynamics;
  • To understand mechanisms of nitrogen and amino acid utilization, to improve the efficacy of low crude protein diets in broiler chickens and minimize nitrogen environmental impact, including air emissions;
  • To develop and teach use of computerized growth models to be used as tools to determine economical optimal management practices and feeding programs;
  • To estimate the optimum dietary electrolyte balance and mineral requirements for optimum performance.

Extension Responsibilities

  • Broiler nutrition & management, and nutrient & waste management
  • The NC Broiler Supervisors’ Short Course and The Eastern NC Broiler Production Short Course
  • The NC State International Course on Poultry Production
  • The NC State Hatchery Management Workshop
  • The Poultry Decision Makers Workshop Series: Mathematical Modeling & Operations Research in Poultry Production
  • Data Analytics for the Poultry and Swine Industries
  • Poultry Feed Formulation and Modeling
  • Other Poultry Workshops and Seminars held periodically throughout the state and abroad

Topics include Broiler nutrition & feeding, and broiler health & management; Effects of broiler breeder management and nutrition on broiler performance; Effects of hatchery and incubation management on broiler performance, bone development, and welfare; Evaluation of efficacy of feed additives and nutritional factors that affect enteric health and meat quality.  This includes evaluation of coccidiostats, antibiotics, probiotics, prebiotics, symbiotics, crystalline amino acids, vitamins, trace minerals, and vaccines against Eimeria spp.; and technologies to improve broiler house air quality and reduce gas emissions.

Extension Programs

Books and Book Chapters

Books

1. Casimiglia, J., Oviedo-Rondon, E.O., C. López-Bote, G. Litta and J.M. Hernandez. 2024. Optimum Vitamin Nutrition for More Sustainable Ruminant Farming. DSM. Basel, Switzerland. 5M Books Ltd, Essex, UK. 388 pp. ISBN 9781789183566.

2. Oviedo-Rondon, E.O. C. López-Bote, G. Litta and J.M. Hernandez. 2023. Optimum Vitamin Nutrition for More Sustainable Swine Farming. DSM. Basel, Switzerland. 5M Books Ltd, Essex, UK. 349 pp. ISBN 9781789182477, eISBN 9781789182538, DOI 10.52517/9781789182538.

3. Oviedo-Rondon, E., A.C. Barroeta, R. Cepero Briz, G. Litta, and J.M. Hernandez. 2023. Optimum Vitamin Nutrition for More Sustainable Poultry Farming. DSM. Basel, Switzerland. 5M Books Ltd, Essex, UK. 425 pp. ISBN 9781789182248. eISBN 9781789182323. DOI 10.52517/9781789182323.

4. Yalçin, Servet and Edgar Orlando Oviedo. 2023. Avian Incubation Conditions: Role in Embryo Development, Physiology and Adaptation to the Post-hatch Environment. Frontiers in Physiology: Avian Physiology. ISSN 1664-8714, ISBN 978-2-83251-486-3, DOI 10.3389/978-2-83251-486-3

Book Chapters

1. Oviedo-Rondón, E.O. 2013. Model applications in poultry production and nutrition, Chapter 10. Pages 125-140. In: Nutritional Modelling for Pigs and Poultry. Sakomura, N.K., Gous, R.M., Kyriazakis, I., Hauschild (eds.) CABI, Oxfordshire, UK.

2. Oviedo-Rondón, E.O., V.M.B. Moraes, and R.D. Malheiros. 2014. Nutrigenomics in Animal Nutrition. Pages 579-593 in: Sakomura, N.K. and L. Hauschild (eds.) Nutrição de Não Ruminantes. Sakomura, N.K. and L. Hauschild (eds.) FUNEP, Jaboticabal, SP., Brazil.

3. Oviedo-Rondón, E.O., C. Pomar, and L.E.C. Conceição. 2014. Modeling in monogastric nutrition. Pages 596-620 in Nutrição de Não Ruminantes. Sakomura, N.K. and L. Hauschild (eds.) FUNEP, Jaboticabal, SP., Brazil.

4. Oviedo-Rondón, E.O. 2013. Challenges and needs for incubation management. In: Macari, M., Gonzales, E., Patrício, I.S., Martins, P.C., and Nääs, I.A. (eds.). Incubation management. 3rd Edition. FACTA, Campinas, SP. Brazil., pp. 385-396.

5. Oviedo-Rondón E.O. and H.A. Córdova-Noboa. 2021. The potential of guanidino acetic acid to reduce the occurrence and severity of broiler muscle myopathies. In: Avian Muscle Development and Growth Mechanisms: Association with Muscle Myopathies and Meat Quality. Eds. Sandra G. Velleman and Massimiliano Petracci. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88966-314-9.

6. Oviedo-Rondón E.O., Velleman S.G. and M.J. Wineland. 2021. The role of incubation conditions in the onset of avian myopathies. In: Avian Muscle Development and Growth Mechanisms: Association with Muscle Myopathies and Meat Quality. Eds. Sandra G. Velleman and Massimiliano Petracci. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88966-314-9.

7. Oviedo-Rondón E.O. 2022. Optimizing the health of broilers. In: Optimizing poultry flock health. Ed. Sjaak de Wit. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited. eBook ISBN 9781003286356.

8. Oviedo-Rondón E.O. and H. Romero. 2022. Management and Nutrition of the Male Breeder. In: Breeder Management and Nutrition: Moving the Industry Forward. Eds. Johan de Buyse. NOVUS eBook.

9. Oviedo-Rondón E.O. 2023. Poultry chick embryo development and skeletal growth. In: Embryo development and hatchery practice in poultry production. Ed. Nick French. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited. ISBN-10:1801462526, ISBN-13:978-1801462525.

10. Oviedo-Rondón E.O. 2024. Management effects on poultry gut health. In: Environmental Effects on Gut Health in Production Animals. Eds. M.H. Kogut and M. Fernandez-Miyakawa. Brill Wageningen Academic. Wageningen, The Netherlands. Page 3-39. https://doi.org/10.3920/9789004695467_003. E-Book ISBN: 9789004695467

11. Oviedo-Rondón E.O. 2024. Strategies to improve hatchability and progeny quality. In: Breeder Management and Nutrition: Moving the Industry Forward. Ed. Johan de Buyse. NOVUS eBook.

Education

D.V.M. Veterinary Medicine and Zoothecnia FMVZ — Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia 1994

M.S. Zootecnia, Animal Nutrition Universidade Estadual de Maringá, PR, Brasil 1999

Ph.D. Poultry Science, Nutrition University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 2002

Board Certification Diplomate American College of Poultry Veterinarians 2005

MBA Decision Making and Supply Chain NC State University 2018

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