It’s time to put your farmer hat on and take care of some cheeky chooks! Get to know your hens’ cheeky personalities and make sure they’re always safe and happy. Build coops and perches, keep food and water full and add lots of fun things to your farm – keeping these smart and curious birds…
More than 20 percent of Queenslanders experiencing hunger are children and, in an effort to reduce this alarming statistic, Sunny Queen Australia – the nation’s favourite smiley-faced eggs – joined with Foodbank Queensland to help make a difference to those experiencing food insecurity in regional areas in the state. A special breakfast and morning tea…
January 2022 poultry industry headlines: Foodbank and Sunny Queen reduce hunger Post-hatch performance using in ovo CrM supplementation Reach out if you’re under stress Cagey commentary nicely laid out Aussie’s cleaning miracle Sale of Hazeldene’s Chicken Farm to private equity firm Final word on washing raw chicken meat Proposals sought for chicken meat program research…
Demand for meat, poultry and seafood packaging is forecast to increase 3.1 percent per year according to a food packaging study by the Freedonia Group. Continued expansion of the case-ready meat, poultry and seafood segment will drive demand for traditional packaging items such as film, trays, absorbent pads and bags. The importance of a longer…
A novel nutritional strategy to improve feed efficiency and decrease abdominal fat pad in meat chickens fed low crude protein diets was presented in Ideas Exchange 2021 conference by Dr Nishchal Sharma from the University of New England. The presentation highlighted the role of guanidinoacetic acid and betaine in low crude protein diets fed to…
Food Safety Week was the perfect time to answer the most common question that brings people to the Australian Chicken Meat Federation website – “Is it safe to refreeze chicken?” ACMF executive director Dr Vivien Kite sets the record straight. “Yes, you can refreeze chicken,” Dr Kite said. “Just make sure it was properly defrosted…
December 2021 poultry industry headlines: Confusion over refreezing chooks Poultry Hub Australia out and about Egg industry awards announced Australians confused about refreezing chooks Surely caged hens have had their day PHA education and training plans Battery cages protest New SBA sales and marketing manager GAA improves low crude protein diets Evaluation of precision nutrition…
In pig and poultry breeding programs, the animals that provide food for consumers are usually crossbred, while genomic selection takes place in their purebred parental lines. Researchers from Wageningen University and Research have written a review paper on how genomic selection can be optimised for the improvement of crossbred animals. Genomic selection Livestock populations are…
The National Farmers’ Federation has welcomed the announcement of new emissions reduction fund method priorities for 2022. NFF chief executive officer Tony Mahar said the new priorities were strongly aligned with the NFF’s submission on the process. “In particular, the NFF supports the development of an ‘integrated farm method’ that would allow separate ERF land-based…
A New report from animal welfare non-profit the Humane League, which examined supermarkets in 29 states in the US, found chicken breasts demonstrating ‘white striping’ in nearly every one. White striping is a muscle disease reportedly impacting 50-96 percent of fast growing chickens. In the US more than nine billion broiler chickens are processed every…