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The Australian poultry industries have taken a number of pro-active steps to improve bird welfare, not only because healthy, stress-free birds are more productive but also because farmers are concerned for the welfare of their flocks. One such step w... [read more]

A Poultry CRC researcher based at the Australian Centre for Poultry Immunogenomics is using emerging biotechnologies to detect avian influenza across a range of bird species.

Viral diseases such as avian influenza infect the cells of a bird and, ... [read more]

Jamie Oliver’s dramatic and unnecessary demonstration of suffocating live chicks and battery cage systems in the British television show Fowl Dinners, undermines and by no way reflects the stringent and professional animal welfare standards ... [read more]

Australian chicken farmers are crying foul over a new TV documentary showing celebrity chef Jamie Oliver slaughtering factory-reared poultry.

Oliver and fellow high-profile British chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall created the show, Jamie's Fowl Di... [read more]

The Australian chicken meat industry does not doubt the honourable intentions that drive Jamie Oliver and we agree with him that it is desirable for the public to understand where our food comes from and how it is produced.

“Where we disagree is... [read more]

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• ...coarse and hard litter components can play a beneficial role for nutrient digestion and gut health, while soft litter particles do not stimulate digestion or nutrient utilisation?
• ...offering the chickens environmental enrichment in the form of string bunches or sand boxes has been shown to reduce the incidence of feather pecking?
• ...the chicken is the first bird and first production animal to have its genome sequenced?
• ...that it takes approximately 10 days for a yolk to develop from the very small to the normal size found in eggs and during this time it is contained in the follicle?
• ...strategies for feeding broilers destined for the whole bird market will differ from strategies for broilers destined to be sold as pieces?
• ...the gizzard almost always contains quantities of hard objects such as gravel or other grit that aids in the disintegration of food - the primary function of the gizzard?
• ...conjugate vaccines are used to elicit an immune response to an antigen that is normally able to evade detection by the immune system?
• ...that the HACCP system was initially developed for NASA by the Pillsbury Company in order to supply safe food for astronauts?

XX International Poultry Conference WPSA
15/09/2008 - 17/09/2008

XVI Baltic and Finnish Poultry Conference
02/10/2008 - 04/10/2008

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26/11/2008 - 28/11/2008

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