Resources

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The Resources section includes information on poultry-related educational videos, training courses, codes of practice and industry guidelines.

Contents 1 Videos 2 Training courses 2.1 Broiler husbandry/management 2.2 Layer husbandry/management 2.3 Beak trimming 2.4 Vaccination 3 Codes of practice / Industry guidelines

[edit] Videos

• It all starts with an egg: The journey of Australian eggs from the farm to the table
  Video/DVD. Australian Egg Corporation Limited (AECL)/Poultry CRC.

• Hatchery to Home: An overview of the Australian chicken meat industry
  DVD. Australian Chicken Meat Federation (ACMF).

• Egg quality problems: causes and solutions.
  Roberts, J.R. and Ball, M. 1999. UNE & RIRDC. 16 mins 20 secs. Australian Egg Corporation Limited.

• Poultry Reproduction: Female.
  Creative Educational Video Inc. Creative Educational Video Ince. 1020 S.E. Loop 289, Lubbock, Texas 79404, U.S.A. (800) 922-9965, (806) 745-8820. Tape #523. 41 mins. Shows dissection of hens.

• Poultry Reproduction: Male.
  Creative Educational Video Inc. Creative Educational Video Ince. 1020 S.E. Loop 289, Lubbock, Texas 79404, U.S.A. (800) 922-9965, (806) 745-8820. Tape #524. 18 mins. Shows dissection of roosters.

[edit] Training courses

[edit] Broiler husbandry/management

• Commercial meat chicken management series
  (8 booklets). NSW Agriculture, Murrumbidgee College of Agriculture. 2000. NSW DPI bookshop:
  • Running the business I. ISBN 0-7347-1070-4. (2000)
  • Running the business II. ISBN 0-7347-1185-9 (2000)
  • Products and marketing. ISBN 0-7347-1186-7 (2000)
  • Feeding practices. ISBN 0-7347-1025-9 (1999)
  • Brooding and rearing. ISBN 0-7310-9883-8 (1998)
  • Hatchery and breeder management. ISBN 0-7347-1183-2 (2000)

[edit] Layer husbandry/management

• Commercial layer management series
  (9 booklets). NSW Agriculture, Murrumbidgee College of Agriculture. 2000. NSW DPI bookshop:
  • Running the business I. ISBN 0-7347-1188-3 (2000)
  • Running the business II. ISBN 0-7347-1108-5 (2000)
  • Products and marketing. ISBN 0-7347-1190-5 (2000)
  • Layer management. ISBN 0-7310-5791-0 (1998)
  • Hatchery and breeder management. ISBN 0-7347-1187-5 (2000)
  • Land use, housing and equipment
  • Feeding practices
  • Brooding and rearing pullets. ISBN 0-7347-1023-2 (1999)

• Commercial layer management: Health and Welfare
  (7 booklets). NSW Agriculture, Murrumbidgee College of Agriculture. 1995. ISBN 0-7310-4947-0. See NSW DPI bookshop.

[edit] Beak trimming

• Beak trimming training manual.
  Bourke, M. 2002. RIRDC. ISBN 0-642-58491-5; ISSN: 1440-6845. Australian Egg Corporation Limited

• Beak trimming trainer guidelines.
  Bourke, M. 2002. RIRDC. ISBN 0-642-58492-3; ISSN: 1440-6845. Australian Egg Corporation Limited

[edit] Vaccination

• Vaccination training manual.
  Bourke, M. 2003. AECL & RIRDC. ISBN 1-920835-10-5; ISSN: 1448-1316. Australian Egg Corporation Limited

[edit] Codes of practice / Industry guidelines

• Egg Packaging Environment Strategy, MyPak Packaging - Environmentally friendly egg packaging solution
  Free download from: Egg Packaging Environment Strategy and click on "Environment Strategy"

• Model code of practice for the welfare of animals - domestic poultry
  Free download from: CSIRO Publishing

• Model code of practice for the welfare of animals - land transport of poultry
  Free download from: CSIRO Publishing

• Occupational Health and Safety Risk in the Poultry Industry - The Facts.
  Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety, Farm Health & Safety. 2005.
  Free download from: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation or Farmsafe or purchase hard copy from: RIRDC (see RIRDC Publications list p30)

• Requirements for the Egg Industry in the 2001 Welfare Code

• Code of practice for the manufacture of egg products
  Free download from Australian Egg Corporation Limited

• Code of practice for shell egg production, grading, packing and distribution
  Free download from Australian Egg Corporation Limited

• Code of practice for biosecurity in the egg industry
  Free download from Australian Egg Corporation Limited

• Egg labelling guidelines
  Free download from Australian Egg Corporation Limited

• Australian standard for construction of premises and hygienic production of poultry meat for human consumption
  Free download from Australian Chicken Meat Federation

• National biosecurity manual contract chicken meat farming
  Free download from Australian Chicken Meat Federation