76 - April 2014

Welcome to another edition of eChook. In this edition, I would like to talk about what free range poultry production actually means in Australia. This stems from the fact that no two free range farms are the same. Consider the range of issues impacting on free range farms, including climatic conditions, species of plants (vegetation),

Poultry CRC project leader Dr David Cadogan, from CRC partner Feedworks, has recently submitted the final report for his project Influence of betaine on embryo survival, hatchability and progeny performance. This was a two-part project investigating both the value of (Danisco’s) Betafin ®S1 as a feed additive in layers, and the effect of Betafin ®S1

With many limits in efficiency being reached within poultry production parameters, producers are looking at further cost savings via incremental gains. One such prospective cost saving is the potential resource that may be found in waste streams generated from growing, processing and  hatching chickens at a commercial scale. This prospective saving coupled with an increasing

Animal Production Science, Volume 53, Number 12, 2013 Toward the end of last year Poultry CRC was extremely grateful to be able to showcase the research relating to our three program areas (health and welfare, nutrition and environment, and food safety and quality) in a special edition of Animal Production Science. It was a rare chance