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As our food production methods become increasingly scrutinised by a well-informed public, the poultry industry must be proactive in engaging with the wider community about our farming practices. As part of keeping the trust, confidence and ‘social licence’ of our society, industry must display a competent workforce, whose methodology is consistent and supported by impartial

Welcome to another edition of eChook! The Poultry CRC underwent a major performance review by an expert panel put together by the Australian government in late May this year. The Review, conducted over 2.5 days, covered all aspects of our operation with the aim to examine whether the activities of the Poultry CRC have delivered

Drs Peter Scott and Arif Anwar from animal and avian health consultancy, Scolexia, are working with Dr Angus Crossan from AECL on Poultry CRC project, Development and Extension of Industry Best Practice for On-Farm Euthanasia of Spent Layer Hens. As Peter explained, “the initial need of the Australian layer industry to consider on-farm mass euthanasia

The Poultry CRC is supporting an 18 month research project aimed at the development of a live vaccine for the control of Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) related chronic respiratory disease in turkeys. The project being headed by Bioproperties R&D Manager, Dr Rima Youil, is a collaborative effort between The University of Melbourne and Bioproperties Pty Ltd.

Poultry CRC researcher Mrs Marta Navarro Gomez has claimed first prize of the graduate student competition at the 46th Annual Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology conference in Brisbane (14-16 July). Marta presented the most recent results of her Poultry CRC project, and was voted best of the 25 students competing. “This was totally

Professor Bob Swick of the University of New England (UNE) organised a “Poultry Nutrition Master Class” in Armidale over two and a half days which was attended by over 30 researchers, students and industry people. The Master Class was presented by renowned industry expert, Dr David Creswell. “This is absolutely fantastic, as it has combined recent advances

Dr John Boyce and Dr Marina Harper at Monash University, together with Dr Conny Turni from the QLD Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAFFI), are undertaking a Poultry CRC project that has developed an accurate and rapid diagnostic tool for typing serovars of Pasteurella multocida, the causative agent of fowl cholera. This new technique,

Professor Geoff Hinch’s joint project with CSIRO is generating intriguing new data on the use of the range by hens. Geoff’s Poultry CRC supported research, entitled New approaches to assessing welfare in free-range laying hens, aims to quantify outdoor range use by hens, and then relate this to ‘welfare status’ of the birds. A previous

The Poultry CRC launched an educational/gaming iOS app in Australia in March of 2013 (with over 1550 downloads to date!). Now the app has been released in Apple’s app store in Europe, Canada and the United States, adding to the potential use of this exciting resource. Egg Grab’n’Grade is available as a 99 cent download

Welcome to another edition of eChook! The hen’s egg contains many essential nutrients, as it is a “self-contained unit” for starting a new life! Indeed, the egg is a major food source, supplying good quality, balanced nutrients to billions of people. For example, the world’s total hen egg production in 2011 was 70.5 million tonnes

Congratulations go to new Poultry CRC Honours student Mr Ben Vezina, who has been awarded the 2013 Jeff Fairbrother Scholarship. This award gives Ben an extra $2000 on top of his existing CRC scholarship. Well done Ben! Ben’s project, ‘Development of plasmid cloning vectors for use in Lactobacillus’ aims to develop new plasmid cloning vectors

Masters of Science in Agricultural – Mr Daniel Cook In early April, on the lawns of Booloominbah at the University of New England, the Sciences, Health and Medicine Awards Graduation Ceremony was held. Poultry CRC supported student Mr Daniel Cook graduated with a Master of Science in Agriculture. His thesis, titled Incidence and prevalence of

Poultry CRC PhD student Mr Hung Viet Le recently travelled to San Francisco to present a paper entitled Stability of volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) in sampling bags – Impact of temperature. “The paper contained a segment of the results of my PhD research which is sponsored by the Poultry CRC”, Hung said. The paper was