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Welcome to another edition of eChook! Firstly, I’d like to congratulate Sonia Liu for winning the Poultry CRC Student Presentation Award at the recent Australian Poultry Science Symposium. Sonia Yun Liu is undertaking her PhD in poultry nutrition at the University of Sydney under the auspices of Professor Aaron Cowieson. Secondly, we will highlight our

Dr Pat Blackall, Principal Research Fellow with Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (at The University of Queensland), manages the Safe and Quality Food Production program for the Poultry CRC. This program’s major challenge, as its name suggests, is to maximise food quality and safety for consumers of poultry products. Food safety is a

The Poultry CRC is thrilled to announce that after many months of hard work, we have an app in the iTunes store! Titled Egg Grab’n’Grade, our newest learning resource is available as a FREE download within Australia. Egg Grab’n’Grade illustrates the different types of eggs that are removed on a grading floor. Egg Grab’n’Grade shows how

Postgraduates, Post-doctorates and Interns from the Poultry CRC gathered recently in Melbourne for the CRC’s annual PoultryGrad workshop. Held over two and a half days, this year’s event featured classroom sessions from renowned Australian science communicator Julian Cribb and site visits to Ridley Agriproducts Feedmill and the Pfizer Animal Health (now Zoetis) manufacturing facility. From

Welcome to another edition of eChook! In this edition we highlight the Poultry CRC’s Health and Welfare program. This is our largest Program and it covers vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics, delivery systems for bioactive materials, and poultry welfare.  The Program aims to provide innovative tools to industry to maintain good health and welfare management into the

Dr John Lowenthal, based at CSIRO Animal, Food and Health Science’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory, manages the Poultry CRC’s Health and Welfare program. This program is set to deliver wide-ranging benefits to the Australian poultry industry in terms of vaccine development and delivery, disease diagnostics and welfare. According to Dr Lowenthal, one of the poultry industries’ primary

Poultry CRC researcher, Dr Kapil Chousalkar at The University of Adelaide, has recently commenced a project investigating the dynamics of Salmonella shedding on commercial cage layer farms. Titled Epidemiology of Salmonella on layer farms, this research aims to determine the roles environmental, or bird or egg factors play in the transmission pathways of Salmonella species.

The Poultry CRC continues to attract exemplary PhD candidates. One of our latest recruits, veterinarian Dr Jemma Bergfeld (based at CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory [AAHL]) is set to unravel the mechanisms underlying Newcastle Disease (ND). Caused by virulent strains of avian paramyxovirus type 1 (APMV1), this devastating and highly contagious virus is regarded as

Welcome to another edition of eChook! First of all, I wish you all a happy new year! In this edition, I would like to highlight a very significant initiative the Australian government took in 1998 by establishing the “Joint Expert Technical Advisory Committee on Antibiotic Resistance (JETACAR)”. The Committee was tasked with assessing the scientific

Dr Lauren Edwards undertook her PhD, titled The human-animal relationship in the caged laying hen, with support from the first round Australian Poultry CRC (2003-2009) under the supervision of Professors Paul Hemsworth and Grahame Coleman at the Animal Welfare Science Centre. Now employed as a lecturer in Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare at Unitec Institute

Across this school holiday period, twenty year 11 and 12 students from around the North West Region of NSW were offered an Industry Placement Scholarship through the University of New England Primary Industry Centre for Science Education (UNE PICSE). This annual program aims to showcase the broad range of exciting science-based careers supporting the primary

Welcome to another edition of eChook! In this edition, we are highlighting some of our research projects related to environmental management. The first project is led by Dr Angus Crossan from AECL, who is developing a best practice manual for on-farm euthanasia of spent hens. The treatment of hens at the end of their laying

For egg producers, nothing is more important than the welfare of their birds; it is their livelihood. This extends to their treatment at the conclusion of their productive life. With some depopulating methods becoming economically unviable, farmers are looking for alternatives. As there are a number of methodologies that can be utilised to euthanise layer