72 - November 2013

The Poultry CRC is very proud to announce the release of our latest educational resource; an animation detailing the 21-day development of a chick embryo within the egg. This two minute long simulation has been made freely available on YouTube for anyone who wishes to observe this process, and will be especially useful for educators around

By Bob Swick and Reza Barekatain Virtually all modern commercial broiler diets are supplemented with liquid oil or fat. This provides energy, improves the absorption of fat soluble vitamins, provides essential fatty acids and acts as a lubricant and dust control agent in feed processing. There has been renewed interest in the use of full

Professor Phil Hynd at the University of Adelaide is heading up a Poultry CRC project titled In ovo therapeutics to improve gut efficiency and health in the broiler chicken. Utilising a relatively new development in animal science known as ‘fetal programming’, this project aims to develop targeted in ovo therapeutics to accelerate gut development in

Since the commencement of the second round of the Poultry CRC in 2010, seven young people have been awarded Poultry CRC industry internships. The program, designed to encourage graduates into the industry, has been hailed as a resounding success. So much so, that despite the initially allocated places being filled, the program is now being