Ramon Malheiros

Bio

Dr. Ramon D. Malheiros earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, and his Ph.D. from São Paulo State University in São Paulo (UNESP), Brazil. He also spent time as Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Physiology of Domestic Animals at KUL, Belgium. His research focuses on Broiler Breeders physiology and management, and how to evaluate alternative feed ingredients, new feed additives and incubation parameters. He evaluates how these affect animal growth, carcass development, intestinal health, blood biochemistry, rooster sperm quality, animal performance in production phase, egg quality (internal and external), egg fertility, egg incubation parameters, embryo development, and hatchability.

Publications

• Determining how different ventilation shutdown plus methods change the electroencephalography, blood chemistry, corticosterone, and heat shock protein 70 of laying hens , FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY (2025)
• The comparative effects of ventilation shutdown with heat (VSDH), relative humidity (VSDHRh), or CO₂ (VSDCO₂) on broiler electroencephalogram (EEG), blood chemistry and gene expression , JOURNAL OF APPLIED POULTRY RESEARCH (2025)
• Use of recycled ash from swine waste as a potential alternative dietary phosphorus source for pigs , JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE (2025)
• Comparing performance, morphological, physical, and chemical properties of eggs produced by 1940 Leghorn or a commercial 2016 Leghorn fed representative diets from 1940 to 2016 , JOURNAL OF APPLIED POULTRY RESEARCH (2024)
• The effect of peanut skins as a natural antimicrobial feed additive on ileal and cecal microbiota in broiler chickens inoculated with Salmonella enterica Enteritidis , POULTRY SCIENCE (2024)
• Addition of a protected complex of biofactors and antioxidants to breeder hen diets confers transgenerational protection against Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis in progeny chicks , POULTRY SCIENCE (2023)
• Determination of the Optimal Dietary Amino Acid Ratio Based on Egg Quality for Japanese Quail Breeder , AGRICULTURE-BASEL (2023)
• Evaluation of Physical Egg Quality Parameters of Commercial Brown Laying Hens Housed in Five Production Systems , ANIMALS (2023)
• The Effect of Housing Environment on Commercial Brown Egg Layer Production, USDA Grade and USDA Size Distribution , ANIMALS (2023)
• Influence of dietary dacitic tuff breccia on laying hen performance and egg quality parameters and bone structure at 85 weeks of age after a non-anorexic molt program at 73 to 77 weeks , POULTRY SCIENCE (2022)