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Poultry Industry Calendar of Events
2018
AUG 12 - 17 – International Congress of Meat Science and Technology, Melbourne, VIC www.icomst2018.com
AUG 24 – Santrev Poultry Industry Charity Golf Day, Brisbane, QLD contact Ruby Gough E: Ruby@santrev.com.au T: 1300 815 888
AUG 31 - SEP 2 – International Exhibition on Poultry, Livestock & Technologies, Bangalore India www.iplexpo.com
SEP 17 - 21 – European Poultry Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia www. epc2018.com
SEP 25 - 26 – Poultry Hub Ideas Exchange, Brisbane, QLD www. poultryhub.org
OCT 28 - 30 – International Poultry Symposium, Chitwan, Nepal www. afu.edu.np/vet/ips2018
NOV 5 - 7 – Poultry Tech Summit, Atlanta, US www.wattglobalmedia. com/poultrytechsummit
NOV 11 - 13 – Australian Veterinary Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference, Sunshine Coast, QLD www.avams2018.w.yrd.currinda.com
2019
FEB 12 - 14 – International Poultry Expo, Atlanta, US www.ippexpo.com
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Specialised Breeders Australia completes new rearing farm
SPECIALISED Breed- ers Australia recently announced it has com- pleted and stocked a new rearing farm in central Victoria.
This new farm will rear Hy-Line and Lohmann parent stock from which commercial Hy-Line and Lohmann Brown Layers are bred.
This completed pro- ject is the second of four planned new farms that provide world-class sup- ply security to Australian egg producers.
SBA CEO Richard Rayner said, “Our key re- sponsibility to Australian egg farmers is to provide a secure supply of high- quality layers.”
“To ensure this, we are in the midst of a multimil- lion dollar upgrade of our facilities to deliver best practice breeding, hatch- ing and biosecurity meas- ures across our production system.
“Last year we commis- sioned our state of the art commercial hatchery in Rochester and a new par- ent production farm.
“This new rearing farm further spreads our bio- security risks and im- proves our ability to deal with potential disease threats.”
The site is ideally lo- cated as it is isolated from other poultry production while still being within reasonable travel times of SBA’s parent production farms.
“We have taken signifi- cant steps to ensure our high production and hy- giene standards are met, and each of the four sheds on site has concrete floor-
ing and clean skin sur- faces for easy cleaning,” Mr Rayner said.
“We have built a shower block for the site, with all staff and visitors re- quiring a shower and clothes change upon entry to comply with our bio- security standards.
“The walkways on the site are fenced to further enhance biosecurity.
“Importantly for our customers, this farm al- lows us to rear twice as many parents per batch as our previous rearing sheds, which means larger parent flocks, resulting in fewer donor flocks at the commercial level.”
SBA Livestock Manager Steve Ligoli said, “The
farm uses deep litter rear- ing with slatted tables for perching and to enrich the environment, we have used Lubbing drinkers and VDL chain feeders inside the sheds.”
“We’ve used cool room panelling for its insulation properties, and the use of LED lighting alongside variable-speed fans pro- vides outstanding energy efficiency.
“Each shed has full en- vironmental control via Skov control panels.
“With two new farms, our new hatchery and an up- graded delivery fleet com- pleted over the past two years we are proud of the investments we are making to provide greater livestock supply security to Austral-
ian egg producers.”
About Specialised Breeders Australia
SBA is the largest sup- plier of day-old chicks and point of lay pullets to the Australian egg industry.
Based close to the Vic- torian city of Bendigo and employing about 140 staff, SBA supplies the world’s leading layer breeds, Hy- Line Brown and Lohmann Brown to Australian egg producers.
For more information on SBA, please visit special isedbreeders.com.au
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