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Requests for the Poultry CRC’s Teachers’ Resource Kit have been coming in so thick and fast that the CRC has had a hard time keeping up with orders. Even the publishers of some of the books included in the kit are struggling to keep up with demand. With the resurgence of poultry keeping making news around the

A multi-pronged approach to reducing Campylobacter numbers in broiler flocks is part of the new Poultry CRC’s strategy on food safety. Food safety and, increasingly, food security, are two big ticket items the poultry industry must face. For the chicken meat industry, the biggest food safety issue is food poisoning caused by the pathogenic bacteria Campylobacter jejuni and coli. Although hygienically

A Poultry CRC project focussed on the registration of a new live vaccine for Fowl Cholera in chickens is close to completion after six and a half years’ work through the CRC. Project Leader and veterinarian, Dr Peter Scott, who is Coordinator of Applied Research at The University of Melbourne’s Veterinary School, said the vaccine is in

Welcome to another edition of eChook. The call for Full Research Proposals went out just before the end of last year, and the February 26 deadline is rapidly approaching. Once we receive all submissions, our Science, End-User Advisory and Executive Committees will assess each proposal before giving their recommendations to the new Governing Board. In the

Agriculture’s place in the national school curriculum received a boost recently thanks to the combined efforts of Australia’s rural CRCs and educators. The country’s agricultural students now have more access to the latest educational tools and resources thanks to the enterprising work of the Armidale-based Poultry Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Poultry CRC representatives joined Australia’s

Welcome to another edition of eChook. Poultry CRC research for 2010 onwards is now that much closer with members of the Science Committee and End-User Advisory Committee now finalised. The selection process for research proposals is merit-based, as it is in the current CRC. Research proposals will be assessed on the basis of their scientific merit

The Australian poultry industry’s capacity for managing some of its most important endemic diseases has received a boost thanks to the enterprising work of a young Poultry CRC scientist at the University of New England (UNE). Dr Katrin Renz, a Research Fellow with UNE’s School of Environmental and Rural Science, wants to improve methodologies for

Australian school students from across the country have been busy feeding and watching their chooks as part of the World’s Poultry Science Association (WPSA) 2009 Schools Poultry Education Competition. Students and teachers from three states – Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia – participated in this year’s hands-on industry education project to help improve the

A net energy system that could lead to a smaller environmental footprint and commercial advantage for Australia’s chicken meat producers is the focus of a nationwide collaboration funded by the Armidale-based Poultry Cooperative Research Centre (Poultry CRC). The net energy system essentially advocates a new way of approaching poultry diets and feed formulation, allowing nutritionists

Since the ground-breaking discovery by a Poultry CRC PhD student that alpha-toxin does not cause the devastating bacterial disease, necrotic enteritis (NE), another toxin, NetB, has emerged as the likely culprit. One of the researchers working on the CRC project focussed on the development of a vaccine against NE, Dr Trudi Bannam, is focussing on the

Poultry CRC researcher and veterinarian, The University of Melbourne’s Dr Joanne Devlin, is one of six young Victorian scientists to win a prestigious 2009 Victoria Fellowship. The Victoria Fellowships, each worth $18,000, were first awarded by the Victorian Government in 1998 to recognise young researchers with leadership potential and to enhance their future careers, while

Welcome to another edition of eChook. The answers were blowin’ in the wind at the CRC’s Ideas Exchange held at Manly’s picturesque Q Station earlier this month. The spectacular backdrop to the current CRC’s final Ideas Exchange offered impressive views from Sydney’s North Head, but the extreme weather besieging the east coast was a bit more

In 2006, the Poultry CRC contracted a Registered Training Organisation (RTO), to look at the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process and how it can be applied more effectively for people involved in poultry production. Over the last 3 years, the CRC, in conjunction with Farm Gate Training & Consulting (the RTO) and Michael Williams (a training