54 - February 2012

Welcome to another edition of eChook! Research activities of the CRC are progressing well, with important stop/go milestone reviews due for a number of our projects. Reviewing these projects ensures they are progressing against their agreed milestones, and that they remain relevant and applicable to industry. Where a project fails to meet its stop/go milestone,

Professor Geoff Hinch (University of New England) is researching new approaches to assessing welfare and behaviour of free-range laying hens. This joint University of New England/CSIRO project, supported by the Poultry CRC, harnesses behavioural demand techniques and judgement bias to measure birds’ use of outdoor space and to find out how they ‘feel’. Determining a reliable, objective measure

Veterinarian, Miss Sheridan Alfirevich, has recently commenced a Poultry CRC supported internship with poultry health consultancy, Zootechny Ptd Ltd under the supervision of Dr Peter Groves. “My interest in poultry stemmed from an interest in aviculture and companion birds from a very young age” said Sheridan. “During my final year at University, my thinking was geared towards eventually

Professor Henry ‘Hank’ Classen, from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon in Canada, is currently in Australia on four months sabbatical leave. Hank is Head of the Department of Animal and Poultry Science in the University’s College of Agriculture and Bioresources. While in Australia Hank has spent some time here at Poultry CRC headquarters. As he says, he has known