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Vol 2. No. 2 February 2019 National Poultry Newspaper PO Box 387 Cleveland 4163 Phone (07) 3286 1833 Fax (07) 3821 2637 Email ben@poultrynews.com.au
Understanding the animal health and biosecurity practices of Australian egg producers
Lego chickens are part of the ice breaker activities on hand for poultry job ready training.
What’s in store for 2019
WELCOME to 2019.
The Poultry Hub team is excited to start the year and get cracking on many of the exciting and engaging pro- grams and activities we have
planned.
We would also like to wel-
come a new member to our team: Hailey Cameron, who will be assisting in the office.
She has only just started with us but has already hit the ground running.
Welcome, Hailey.
First up, we are busy or- ganising our first poultry job ready training.
This training is aimed at young people aged 15-24 and seeks to engage them in all things poultry while providing them with useful and practical skills.
To ensure the training is engaging, we have designed six modules that are high- tech and hands-on.
Some of the modules in- clude a virtual reality chick- en, chicken grading game, chicken clicker training and of course Lego.
Our first training session will be held in March in Tamworth following an en-
gagement day that features a chicken barbecue.
For more information and dates, check out poultryhub. org
George the Farmer has landed!
I can finally share the won- derful experience Poultry Hub had recently with the excellent team at George the Farmer and of course Kerry the chicken farmer in South Australia.
This short clip has been produced to help kids (and possibly their parents) un- derstand the amazing pro- cess of how chicken meat gets to our dinner tables.
Don’t forget to share it
with all your networks through your social media channels!
The clip can be found at youtube.com/watch?v=v5- wWZwT1UI
Later this month we will attend the Australian Poul- try Science Symposium in Sydney.
This meeting has been running for 30 years and is a fantastic opportunity to learn and engage with many brilliant poultry sci- entists from both Australia and abroad.
In conjunction with APSS, this year PHA will be fa-
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by TAMSYN CROWLEY Director
AUSTRALIAN Eggs is sup- porting research focused on producers’ approaches to ani- mal health and biosecurity.
The research is being under- taken by the Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation at Charles Sturt University in collaboration with researchers from Sydney University and the University of Tasmania.
The overall aim of the project is to investigate biosecurity awareness, understanding and implementation among Aus- tralian egg producers.
The project is focusing on pro- ducers keeping between 1000 and 100,000 birds and will pro- vide recommendations to im- prove biosecurity engagement.
This study is being conducted in three main phases.
The first phase investigated the institutional and policy context of biosecurity within the industry and was focused on various stakeholders within the egg industry such as gov- ernment agencies, industry as- sociations and animal health experts.
The second phase of the pro- ject, which is nearing com- pletion, involves information gathering from egg producers to better understand how they engage with biosecurity and the social, economic and envi- ronmental factors that enable or constrain their adoption of recommended practices.
Information is being gathered through semi-structured inter- views with producers, either face-to-face or by telephone.
The third and final phase of the project will use findings from phases one and two to develop recommendations at strategic, tactical and opera- tional levels of policy practice for supporting producers with implementation of biosecurity.
This will comprise a series of recommendations and work- shops with producers and other industry stakeholders.
Producer interviews have been a crucial part of this pro- ject.
The researchers wanted to get a much better understanding of the diversity of approaches and
experiences that occur across the industry.
They have been able to do this in the context of cage, barn and free-range production, dif- fering flock sizes, and the ex- perience level of producers.
The interviews have pro- vided a wealth of information that can be used to ensure producers are supported in the implementation of their biosecurity and flock health management practices.
Interviews with producers have covered:
1. Approaches to biosecurity and animal health;
2. Understanding of responsi- bilities and roles in systems of biosecurity; and
3. Information sources and networks used in biosecurity and flock health management.
The researchers are still in- terested in hearing from any producers who would like to participate in the study.
Brian Furze from Charles Sturt University can be con- tacted by phone on 0411 746 781.
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