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The PHA team recently teamed up with Alison and Patrick from Pepe’s Ducks to participate in UNE’s Farming Futures. This event is run by students for students and really delivers the message that Australian agriculture is an exciting career opportunity. Farming Futures is a celebration of careers in agriculture. The Farming Futures concept is helping

Coccidiosis is one of the greatest challenges for broiler production in Australia, particularly as there is a push to ban antibiotic growth promotants and coccidiostats. The economic impact of coccidiosis worldwide is estimated at approximately $14.5 billion USD (Blake et al., 2021). Vaccines are available, but can be expensive and birds may experience depressed performance.

Curtin University researcher Dr. Natalie Morgan has won the 2023 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (ATSE) ICM Agrifood Award for excellence in Agrifood. Dr. Morgan’s research has revealed the importance of fibre – a nutrient historically overlooked in poultry diets. Natalie developed a database of accurate fibre values to help poultry nutritionists improve accuracy when formulating feed that

This year Poultry Hub Australia’s annual postgraduate workshop PoultryGRAD, was held in conjunction with the Ideas Exchange conference in Adelaide, South Australia. 17 PhD students from various research fields across the industry were selected to attend the conference and workshop and experienced industry updates, PHA funded research seminars as well as had the opportunity to present their own research

Ideas Exchange 2023 This month I had the pleasure of meeting in person with many of you at our annual conference Ideas Exchange. This year’s conference hosted 90 participants from both industry and research. The conference was held in Adelaide on the 17th and 18th October on the edge of the CBD, right near the

Poultry Hub Australia (PHA) will fund a number of research projects as part of PHA’s Industry Research Funding. The aim of the call is to encourage scientists to engage with industry and work together to develop innovative applied research projects with the objective to solve problems faced by the Australian poultry industry. For more information, or

Poultry Hub Undergraduate Industry Placement Scholarships Applications are now open! Poultry Hub is passionate about engaging with students and encouraging them to join the Australian poultry industry. One way we achieve this is through our Undergraduate Industry Placement Scholarships which are now open for applications

Recently, UNE undergraduate student Jarrah Ransome had the opportunity to visit a Baiada broiler farm and feed mill near Tamworth, NSW. Jarrah was hosted by Baiada Nutritionist, Emma Bradbury who explained the intricacies of managing sheds, diets and feed additives. Following the experience, Jarrah now has a new interest in what the poultry industry has to

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Chicken feed made of food waste could slash costs and emissions New research from the University of New England (UNE) has revealed using food waste to create commercial chicken feed would not only save the Australian poultry industry an estimated $500 million a year, but it could reduce the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions by at least

Ideas Exchange began with an update from industry with talks from both the chicken meat and egg sectors. Not surprisingly the Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines was a hot topic and provided some great discussion. Following these talks we had a panel session that was focused on training and attracting the next generation to

Professor Tamsyn Crowley was recently interviewed by Dr James O’Hanlan from StemQ. In the interview they chat about how the research conducted at Poultry Hub finds its way into industry and how it helps improve agricultural practices. They also chat about the different career paths available in the poultry industry and how university studies and postgraduate

Agricultural scientists sometimes run trials, or experiments, and wonder:  “Are the statistical methods developed in the early 20th Century, before computers, still applicable in the early 21st Century?”  Such was the case when UNE Poultry researchers Professors Robert Swick, Shubiao Wu, and Natalie Morgan, and their student Anna Nguyen, ran some trials designed to determine