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…
DetailsTHE 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…
DetailsPOULTRY 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…
DetailsAFTER 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…
DetailsALONG 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…
DetailsDOING things differently is a great way to stand out from the crowd, and when it comes to free range chicken farming, that’s quite a crowded space to be playing in. So when Mount Cotton, Queensland-based Golden Cockerel (jointly owned by Woodlands Enterprises and Darwalla Group) looked to branch out and explore a niche in…
DetailsNEXT year in February the University of Sydney – Poultry Research Foundation, in conjunction with the World Poultry Science Association, will host the 30th anniversary of the Australian Poultry Science Symposium. APSS is the premier poultry science meeting in Australasia and is held in substantial international regard, evident by the increasingly diverse international speakers and…
DetailsOUR focus this month has continued to be on engagement activities with the view to building capacity. This allowed us to meet George the Farmer, a jovial children’s character whose mission is to help children understand more about agriculture. Since he was first launched in July 2014 as an interactive story app, the George the…
DetailsSPECIALISED Breeders Australia recently announced it has completed 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 project is the second of four planned new farms that provide world-class supply security to Australian…
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