Murrumbidgee College Poultry Training Manuals The Poultry CRC has undertaken the task of revising the Murrumbidgee College Poultry Training manuals. The integration of Dr. Tom Grimes’ review comments into the Commercial Layer Management Health and Welfare and the Commercial Meat Chicken Management Health and Welfare training manuals has now been completed and the revised files

Welcome to another edition of eChook. Professor Mary O’Kane’s Review of the CRC Program, Collaborating to a purpose (PDF 1.1MB), released on 5 August, is now open for comments. It is a thorough and, by and large, a positive review. A few key questions are left unanswered. For example: There is no mention of the high transaction cost for

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, using the machinery of the cell, create multiple copies of the virus which are set free as the

WPC2008 The main activity this past month has been the World’s Poultry Congress, for which I was the Coordinator of the Youth Program, including the post-congress tour. Fifty-eight young people from 30 different countries participated in the Youth Program, including two of our Poultry CRC Postgraduate Students, Barbara Konsak and Adam Sacranie. The Youth Program

Welcome to another edition of eChook. It’s been a big month. Many of you may have heard that the Poultry CRC won the WPSA Industry/Organisation Award at the World’s Poultry Congress in Brisbane in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the development of the poultry industry. This is a great honour for all of us involved in the

To date, Poultry CRC research has resulted in four patents, each of which may enhance or radically change Australia’s and, potentially, the world’s poultry industries. The four patents, Modulating production traits in avians, Antimicrobial peptides, Novel avian cytokines, and Novel toxin, are currently entering, or close to entering, the Patent Cooperation Treaty phase of their prosecution. “Some of our most exciting technology is

Several of the Poultry CRC’s research projects have wrapped up recently, including Professor Glenn Browning’s projects on Chicken Anaemia Virus vaccines at The University of Melbourne, CAV vaccines and Genomic approaches to novel vaccines. Glenn has transferred the pre-master seedlot developed during the work to Bioproperties Pty Ltd for assessment as a potential vaccine candidate. Steve Walkden-Brown’s project on New diagnostics at the University

A world-first discovery made by a Poultry CRC PhD student working at CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong has poultry scientists worldwide taking a fresh look at the devastating bacterial disease, necrotic enteritis. In a paper published on 8 February in the respected ‘open access’ international journal PLoS Pathogens, PhD student Anthony Keyburn and a team of Australian scientists outline the

A workshop to help researchers navigate the registration processes for vaccines and other poultry health products has been held by Bioproperties Pty Ltd, an SME manufacturing animal vaccines in Australia. Before new vaccines for layers or meat chickens are released, they need to pass through the stringent demands of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority

Welcome to another edition of eChook. The Review of the National Innovation System, incorporating the CRC Programme, will deliver a Green Paper to Government by 31 July 2008. This Green Paper will then be released to the stakeholders for comments. The Government will develop its response in the form of a White Paper towards the end of 2008.

Wednesday, 21 June 2006 The Australian Poultry CRC and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries have started a collaborative project to address the issue of safe and sustainable re-use of chicken litter across production cycles. The new project will deliver hard scientific data that will help the chicken meat industry manage an important resource (bedding

The Poultry CRC has organised a meeting for early June to discuss the best ways to transfer to industry data from its work on establishing the base-line of various layer production systems. Project 04-37: Layer production in cage and alternative housing systems compared production outcomes, including welfare, egg production, egg quality, bone strength and blood

Reducing the risk of Marek’s disease, reducing free-range mortality and improving feed conversion ratios are some of the latest practical outcomes being transferred to industry by the Poultry CRC. A concise, two-page information sheet detailing these best-practice strategies and other practical benefits is now available as a download from Poultry Hub, the Poultry CRC’s online poultry