Is this YOU??? Hy-Line Australia is a leading layer breeder.  They require a strong leader to manage and facilitate day-to-day operations at their hatchery facility, located approximately 1.5 hours North of Melbourne near Bendigo, Victoria.  Bendigo is the State’s largest regional centre with over 100,000 residents and extensive services and facilities. This position reports to

Welcome to another edition of eChook. The Poultry Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) will fund up to two research projects during the 2013-2014 financial year, each up to the value of $100,000 (AUD) as part of the Poultry CRC Strategic Funding. The aim of the call is to encourage scientists to engage in innovative, fundamental research

Vitamin D is an essential component of vertebrate metabolism; however both Australian and global epidemiological surveys have shown a chronic vitamin D insufficiency in the human population. Vitamin D is essential for good skeletal health, healthy skin and a sound immune system and chronic insufficiencies may cause many diseases including osteoporosis. There are few human

Following on from our successful egg grading game for children, the CRC is pleased to announce the release of a new training tool to teach egg grading skills to adults. Based on the same back-end that powers the iOS Game, Egg Grab’n’Grade, the CRC’s “Egg Grading Simulator” has been written to run on either PC

As our food production methods become increasingly scrutinised by a well-informed public, the poultry industry must be proactive in engaging with the wider community about our farming practices. As part of keeping the trust, confidence and ‘social licence’ of our society, industry must display a competent workforce, whose methodology is consistent and supported by impartial

Welcome to another edition of eChook! The Poultry CRC underwent a major performance review by an expert panel put together by the Australian government in late May this year. The Review, conducted over 2.5 days, covered all aspects of our operation with the aim to examine whether the activities of the Poultry CRC have delivered

Drs Peter Scott and Arif Anwar from animal and avian health consultancy, Scolexia, are working with Dr Angus Crossan from AECL on Poultry CRC project, Development and Extension of Industry Best Practice for On-Farm Euthanasia of Spent Layer Hens. As Peter explained, “the initial need of the Australian layer industry to consider on-farm mass euthanasia

The Poultry CRC is supporting an 18 month research project aimed at the development of a live vaccine for the control of Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) related chronic respiratory disease in turkeys. The project being headed by Bioproperties R&D Manager, Dr Rima Youil, is a collaborative effort between The University of Melbourne and Bioproperties Pty Ltd.

Poultry CRC researcher Mrs Marta Navarro Gomez has claimed first prize of the graduate student competition at the 46th Annual Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology conference in Brisbane (14-16 July). Marta presented the most recent results of her Poultry CRC project, and was voted best of the 25 students competing. “This was totally

Professor Bob Swick of the University of New England (UNE) organised a “Poultry Nutrition Master Class” in Armidale over two and a half days which was attended by over 30 researchers, students and industry people. The Master Class was presented by renowned industry expert, Dr David Creswell. “This is absolutely fantastic, as it has combined recent advances

Dr John Boyce and Dr Marina Harper at Monash University, together with Dr Conny Turni from the QLD Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAFFI), are undertaking a Poultry CRC project that has developed an accurate and rapid diagnostic tool for typing serovars of Pasteurella multocida, the causative agent of fowl cholera. This new technique,

Professor Geoff Hinch’s joint project with CSIRO is generating intriguing new data on the use of the range by hens. Geoff’s Poultry CRC supported research, entitled New approaches to assessing welfare in free-range laying hens, aims to quantify outdoor range use by hens, and then relate this to ‘welfare status’ of the birds. A previous

The Poultry CRC launched an educational/gaming iOS app in Australia in March of 2013 (with over 1550 downloads to date!). Now the app has been released in Apple’s app store in Europe, Canada and the United States, adding to the potential use of this exciting resource. Egg Grab’n’Grade is available as a 99 cent download