OVER 20 poultry science students attended PoultryGrad 2019 for two days during July in Toowoomba, Queensland. PoultryGrad provides students with the opportunity to meet people from industry and students from other universities. The event enables them to think about and discuss their future careers, build peer networks and discuss how their research can benefit the…
TAKING a more proactive approach to regulation, research and education is the only way to ensure the Australian poultry industry is at the forefront of innovation, particularly while issues such as animal welfare and biosecurity are seen as the catalyst for practice change. That’s according to a report released recently by Jessica Pitkin, a small-scale…
THE Australian egg industry has worked closely with authorities to respond to the recent series of salmonella enteritidis incidents. SE has been detected on 11 egg farms in NSW and one in Victoria and all sites have been quarantined and undergone decontamination. Australian Eggs managing director Rowan McMonnies said the efforts of government authorities and…
TECNO, an AGCO company, is a world leader in the design and manufacture of commercial egg production equipment. Established for over 40 years, it utilises European-sourced materials, state-of-the-art automated in-house production and design to provide a superior product at a competitive price. Tecno provides a range of products to meet Australian and New Zealand customers’…
DR Richard Murphy, research director at the Alltech European Bioscience Centre in Dunboyne, Ireland will receive the Alltech Medal of Excellence during ONE: The Alltech Ideas Conference when the event returns to Lexington, Kentucky from May 19-21. Murphy is receiving the award for his pioneering work in the areas of organic trace element assimilation, microbial enzyme technology…
FREE range production has many positive benefits – exposure to internal parasites is not one of them. This month we discuss one of the challenges facing free range layer farming: intestinal worms. To understand them better, we need to know more about them – their lifecycle, their hosts, their impacts and how best to control…
THE AgriFutures Chicken Meat Program is off to a flying start for 2019, with a change in leadership and a host of new projects in the wings to boost the productivity and efficiency of chicken meat production and deliver safe food and good animal welfare outcomes. Key to determining new program investment for 2019 is…
POULTRY industry leader Alltech Lienert Australia capped off the 2019 Australian Poultry Science Symposium with a dinner function dedicated to discussing poultry nutrition and performance. Guests gathered at Sydney’s Dolton House for a roundtable dinner featuring talks from three of the industry’s finest. Dr Lucy Waldron from LWT Animal Nutrition kicked the night off with…
AFTER listening to the concerns of those in the egg farming industry, Egg Farmers of Australia has been undergoing significant restructure in an effort to develop tighter focus and deliver the support farmers want. In late-December 2018, the EFA Board enlisted the services of a private consultancy firm to draft a strategic plan for EFA…
ALONG with the juxtaposition of egg-laying chickens being bred and raised to lay eggs consistently and quickly and meat chickens being bred and raised to lay down meat consistently and quickly, comes welfare issues. Such a negative relationship between egg production and fattening performance in chickens has resulted in specialised strains for egg and meat…