41 - November 2010

A new DVD, produced by the Poultry CRC, offering a step-by-step guide to conducting an on-farm flock inspection, followed by bird selection and detailed post-mortem of a chicken, is finished and ready for distribution. The 20-minute DVD can be used as a learning aid to help veterinary and animal science students and poultry professionals to identify

The Poultry CRC is supporting a University of Melbourne PhD student in her quest to develop a new vaccine for more effective control of inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) outbreaks in Australian broiler flocks. Penelope Steer, who grew up on a sheep and cattle property in central western Queensland and graduated from The University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Applied Science

Welcome to another edition of eChook. Where the creeks run dry or ten feet high, And it’s either drought or plenty. This is how the folk song The Overlanders describes Australia. Indeed, Australia has emerged from a long period of drought into a very wet year. The wet season continued well into grain harvest in the eastern states. This

A Poultry CRC research project being undertaken at The Ohio State University is seeking to improve our understanding of early muscle growth and development in broiler chickens, and the importance of an appropriate immediate post-hatch nutritional regimen to maximise muscle mass accretion and maintain meat quality. As per capita consumption of poultry meat continues to rise worldwide, broiler breeders and