Poultry videos
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This page provides links and information about poultry videos, including DVDs and video downloads covering egg and chicken meat production.
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Egg production
The journey of Australian eggs from farm to table
- Overview: Join the egg family on their journey from the farm to the dinner table. Learn all about where Australian eggs come from - meet the hens, their farmers, the little baby chicks and even the guard dog! Features free range, cage and barn systems.
- View on YouTube
- Download video 9 mins | 91MB
- DVD: Contact the Poultry CRC on +61 2 6773 3767 or email Chris Day
It all starts with an Egg primary school version | 8 mins | AECL / Poultry CRC
The journey of Australian eggs from farm to table
- Overview: An excellent tool for teachers to educate primary students about the various egg production systems in Australia.
- DVD / More info at aecl.org
- Teachers Resource Kit and Story of Eggs book also available. Classroom activity sets available for preschoolers and infants.
Chicken meat production
Eat this chicken: the truth about hormones and much more! - A fast-paced and funny presentation of some surprising facts about chicken.
- View video (On YouTube)
- Also available at www.chicken.org.au
An overview of the Australian chicken meat industry
- Overview: Australian schools now have access to an up-to-date resource offering a real insight into the chicken meat industry and supported with a full range of class room support material. The DVDs (one aimed at primary and one at secondary school) provide extensive material relevant to a range of curriculum topics such as agricultural sciences, food technology and health.
- View trailer 1 min | 1.2MB
View clips from the video covering the main elements of chicken meat production at ACMF's Video Library or choose from the chapters below.
- ACMF: Farm Visit - (Web-Video) Welcome to a typical Australian Chicken Farm! This video gives you a glimpse of what it is like in a modern commercial chicken shed. No meat chicken is ever raised in cages. The conventional farming method is illustrated in this film clip. Chickens live in large barns where they are free to roam around.
- ACMF: Biosecurity, What is it? - (Web-Video) Biosecurity is an essential concept in all farming operations and particulary poultry farming. This short film clip explains the why and how of biosecurity on a commercial meat chicken farm, also called broiler farm.
- ACMF: Chicken Meat and its Nutritional Value - (Web-Video) The short video covers the nutritional value of chicken meat. The clip is an extract from the secondary school DVD "From Hatchery to Home".
- ACMF: Price and Industry Efficiency (Web-Video) This video covers the price development over the last few decades and the efficiency improvements that made it possible. The clip is an extract from the secondary school DVD "From Hatchery to Home.
- ACMF: Introduction and Statistics -(Web-Video)- This short video gives an overview of the chicken meat industry, consumption patterns over past decades and a range of facts and figures on the industry.The clip is an extract from the secondary school DVD "From Hatchery to Home.
- ACMF: Breeding - (Web-Video) This short video introduces the viewer to the breeding process, an essential step in the multiplication process from a few thousand fertilized eggs carrying the latest genetic strain to the many millions of eggs needed to hatch the chickens which grow up to be meat chickens, also known as broilers. The clip is an extract from the secondary school DVD "From Hatchery to Home".
- ACMF: Hatchery - (Web-Video) This video segment shows how the fertilized eggs from the breeder farms are hatched at special hatcheries over a 21 day period. From the hatchery, the one-day old chicks are transported to the broiler farms.
- ACMF: Feedmill - {Web-Video) Feed is an essential input in to the chicken growing process and its cost makes up about 60% of the overall production costs. Feed is formulated carefully to match the nutritional requirements of chickens at their various phases of development. This is done at large feedmills and this video shows what these mills look like and what is involved in feed formulation and processing.
- ACMF: Rearing Farm - (Web-Video) One day old chicks are transported from the hatchery to the broiler rearing farm where they will be kept until they have reached the size required for processing. This film extract shows what a chicken shed looks like and how chicken farmers (growers) care for the birds. The film also explains the important concept of farm biosecurity which ensures that diseases are kept out of chicken sheds.
- ACMF: Processing - (Web-Video) This film segment shows the viewer what happens in a chicken processing plant from when the birds arrive at the plant to the packaged product ready for dispatch.
- ACMF: Food Safety - (Web-Video) This film clip explains the importance of food safety and what each consumer should know about handling chicken meat.
See also
External links
- Farmissues.com is a Canadian website featuring videos and virtual tours of a broiler farm, an egg farm and a turkey farm as well as ostrich, emu and rhea farms.
