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  Avian Health Online is an interactive online course for veterinarians working in the global poultry industry. Presented by The University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the Poultry Diseases Research Center, University of Georgia, USA, a Postgraduate Certificate in Avian Health can be completed with 1 year part-time study (Units 1 & 2), while the Masters in Avian Health

The Poultry CRC now calls for Preliminary Research Proposals (PRPs). In this round of proposals, the CRC is calling for projects ranging from 6 to 18 months, focussing purely on transferable or commercialisable ideas. The Poultry CRC is not a funding body and applications are not open to researchers from non-participant organisations. Your Proposal(s) must aim to

Welcome to another edition of eChook. In this edition, I would like to explain why we’re calling for research proposals that focus on industry transferrable ideas in this year’s funding round. The call for Proposals will be announced this week. Achieving increased productivity within the Australian poultry industry is becoming more difficult due to increased

Poultry CRC welcomes two new students, Mrs Marta Navarro Gomez and Mr Jim Shini, whose PhD studies will focus on food safety and fatty live haemorrhagic syndrome, respectively. Both projects are aimed at providing practical solutions to the poultry industry, which is a vital aspect of the Poultry CRC’s mandate. Marta and Jim are enrolled at

Its official! Eight years on from the initiation of a (then Australian) Poultry CRC project led by Dr Peter Scott (03-12), our industry partner Bioproperties has received Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) registration for Vaxsafe® PM (strain PMP-1). This live attenuated vaccine has been developed for the control of fowl cholera in chickens due to infection with virulent homologous or heterologous strains

The Poultry CRC has recently added another young scientist to our list of CRC supported students. Under the supervision of Associate Professor Aaron Cowieson from The University of Sydney, PhD candidate Ms Sonia Yun Liu is working on enzyme feed additives aimed at improving overall poultry feed efficiency. Ms Yun Liu has completed a Master’s degree in food

Welcome to another edition of eChook! The Poultry CRC held its annual Ideas Exchange 2011 event recently and showcased its research projects displaying frontier science, and educational initiatives spurring the enthusiasm of the poultry industry. One important aim of this event was to offer a platform where researchers, students, industry experts, board members and management staff could

Developing effective delivery of biologically active molecules to the maturing egg embryo is the focus of research being undertaken by Dr Tim Mahony at The University of Queensland. This is a collaborative project (sub-project 1.3.2) between the Poultry CRC, The University of Queensland and DAFF (formerly DEEDI). “During the first round Australian Poultry CRC, we were focused on the development of a new more

The Poultry CRC asked Ms Kylie Hewson to provide an update on her PhD. What follows is her personal account of her research activities to date, in her own words. It gives us an insight as to the different directions a PhD can take you, what can be achieved within the poultry industry and the opportunities available to young

Poultry CRC supported Postgraduate Student (USyd) Mr Tugrul Durali attended the Alltech 27th International Health and Nutrition Industry Symposium at Lexington, Kentucky (US) in May 2011. While there he also participated in a Fieldale Farms broiler farm visit to see chemical free broiler production on a vegetarian diet, following this with University of Georgia Poultry Diagnostic & Research Centre presentations about poultry

COMPETITION NOW CLOSED – WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED MONDAY 12 SEPT!!! In the interest of sparking your creative and artistic side, and as a cheeky way of gathering images for our ever-growing database, the Poultry CRC has decided to run another photo competition. The theme of this competition is Nutrition and Environment, so in addition to images of poultry

Previous work done on Net Energy, namely Frap et al in 1940’s, has largely not been followed up in poultry. This has been primarily due to the practical challenges faced in setting up such facilities. However, with the ever increasing cost of feed, any gain in energy efficiencies or feed conversion efficiencies will pay direct dividends to

The large scale incubation of fertile eggs in the commercial broiler and layer industry is difficult to manage, particularly keeping an even, ideal temperature for each individual egg. Temperature variation and fluctuation does occur in commercial incubators, and can cause major problems with embryo development and survival. As one of the most powerful osmolytes in