68 - June 2013

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