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In recent times, white striping and hard or “woody” texture has been observed in some chicken breast muscles. Indeed, at the recent 14th European Poultry Conference in Norway, a session dedicated to meat quality discussed these issues. Professor Sandra Velleman from Ohio State University is also now working on a deeper understanding of the so-called

Poultry CRC project leaders Professor Bob Swick and Professor Paul Iji at the University of New England have recently completed a research project aimed at identifying ingredients and feed formulae that can improve the growth of broiler chicks, post-hatch. As the production cycle of broilers has been reduced to such an extent that the starter

The Poultry CRC’s Chicken Embryo Development animation recently took out two awards at the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) annual meeting in the USA. Our Canadian animators, AXS Studio Inc. were delighted to pass on the news that the animation had won both a Member’s Choice Award (New Media) and an Animation: Didactic/Instructional – Non-Commercial

Dry, friable litter is desirable for broiler welfare and production efficiency. While many factors contribute to excess litter moisture or ‘wet litter’, including bird density, litter type, drinker type and condition, ventilation, bird health and feed, rapidly growing broilers excrete large volumes of water under commercial conditions. For example, a shed of 20,000 broilers at

The rapid expansion of chicken meat production in Australia has led to a scarcity of bedding materials such as wood shavings and sawdust, and, at times, rice hulls and straw. The natural flow on from this demand is increased pricing of new bedding materials which create a financial incentive to re-use litter for multiple batches

Rapid, accurate and reliable diagnostics for poultry pathogens are essential for producers to have access to in the case of an outbreak. Across Australia there are a number of diagnostic services available for farmers should they be required. The following three institutions, CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (Victoria),  Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation

The Poultry Beyond 2020 Conference was recently held at the spectacular Skyline Conference Centre in Queenstown, New Zealand. Some 120 professionals, from feed and poultry companies, research institutes and universities across the globe, met to discuss the science and technology required to keep up with the demand for poultry meat over the next five to

Welcome to another edition of eChook! The use of antibiotics in animal feed was banned in Sweden in 1986. In 1999, the European Union banned the in-feed use of six antimicrobials. Four of these, tylosin, spiramycin, bacitracin and virginiamycin, belonged to the classes of antibiotics that are used in human medicine, while the other two,

The Poultry CRC is supporting Dr Susan Bibby from Aviagen Australia Pty Ltd and Dr Kylie Hewson (a former CRC PhD student) to develop a package for setting up and running university Open Day stands focussed on poultry. The recent Open Day at the University of New England (UNE) started the project. Attended by Dr

Welcome to another edition of eChook. In this edition, I would like to talk about what free range poultry production actually means in Australia. This stems from the fact that no two free range farms are the same. Consider the range of issues impacting on free range farms, including climatic conditions, species of plants (vegetation),

Poultry CRC project leader Dr David Cadogan, from CRC partner Feedworks, has recently submitted the final report for his project Influence of betaine on embryo survival, hatchability and progeny performance. This was a two-part project investigating both the value of (Danisco’s) Betafin ®S1 as a feed additive in layers, and the effect of Betafin ®S1

With many limits in efficiency being reached within poultry production parameters, producers are looking at further cost savings via incremental gains. One such prospective cost saving is the potential resource that may be found in waste streams generated from growing, processing and  hatching chickens at a commercial scale. This prospective saving coupled with an increasing

Animal Production Science, Volume 53, Number 12, 2013 Toward the end of last year Poultry CRC was extremely grateful to be able to showcase the research relating to our three program areas (health and welfare, nutrition and environment, and food safety and quality) in a special edition of Animal Production Science. It was a rare chance