Ozzie Opinions Urged on Transport Welfare
AUSTRALIA - The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPI&F) is urging North Queenslanders to have their say on proposed Australian Standards and Guidelines for the Welfare of Animals for the Land Transport of Livestock.

Microflora Optimises Bird Performance
AUSTRALIA - An advanced microbiological technique that provides a “snapshot” of the bacterial population in the chicken’s gut is being used to determine the right balance of bacterial species for the bird's gut health.

Rapid Diagnostics Makes OZ Poultry Fly
AUSTRALIA - Australian poultry producers are benefiting from a range of rapid, cost-effective diagnostic tests previously unavailable in Australia thanks to a Poultry CRC project being undertaken at The University of Melbourne.

Eggs: The Sign of Fertility
AUSTRALIA - A new study confirms that men require a source of folate in their diet in order to keep their sperm healthy. According to nutritionalists, eating egg based diets, such as quiche, fulfil the daily requirements ideally.

Aussies Quietly Confident on Food Safety
AUSTRALIA - A consumer confidence survey has touted that 65 per cent of Australian believe that food safety has either stayed the same or improved over the last year. But of those foods of concern 17.9 per cent still had doubts on the safety of raw poultry...

Wood Shavings, Robust Guts and Marek's Disease
AUSTRALIA - A Poultry CRC-funded epidemiological survey of Australian broiler flocks has indicated that one of the protective factors against Marek's Disease virus may be the use of wood-based litter.

AACT: Pitt Hides Beneath Shell of Deceit
AUSTRALIA - Claims made in defence of a battery hen farm, which is at the centre of Salmonella outbreak and allegations of animal cruelty, have been branded as untrue and delusional by opponent Shane Dalgleish, Spokesperson for Against Animal Cruelty...

Giant Turbine Installed on Chook Farm
AUSTRALIA - Nichols Poultry in Australia plans to install a giant wind turbine to blow itself into the future of environmental sustainability.

Taking Broiler Cruelty to Government
TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA - The Tasmanian Greens, an Australian political party, have proposed a 'Restructure and Re-brand' make over on the national battery hen farming system. They plan to air their opinions in a house of assembly bill.

Poultry CRC Introduce Improved Welfare Standards
AUSTRALIA - New National Animal Welfare Standards for the Chicken Meat Industry have been developed and are now being made available to industry. Now, a new Poultry CRC project builds on an earlier RIRDC project A Welfare Audit for the Chicken...

‘The Good Egg’
AUSTRALIA - In October 2007, the Australian Egg Corporation Limited (AECL) commissioned the most comprehensive nutritional analysis of Australian fresh shell eggs ever undertaken.

Poultry Enquiry Refused
AUSTRALIA - Primary Industries Minister David Llewellyn has declined to call an inquiry into animal welfare or salmonella concerns at Pitt's poultry farm despite calls in Parliament yesterday to do so.

Poultry Consumption Rising in Australia
AUSTRALIA - A recent survey has revealed that Australia's annual per capital poultry meat consumption is set to rise by more than one kilogram per head per year, to 40.5kg by 2012-13.

Environment and Livestock Find a Single Voice
AUSTRALIA - With climate change and greenhouse gas emissions two of the biggest issues facing agriculture Meat & Livestock Australia has bolstered its ‘green’ credentials by employing one of Australia’s leading experts in the field.

Animals and the Next Great Social Justice Movement
AUSTRALIA - Increasing concern for animal welfare and consumer demand for organic and free range products— backed up with stricter food labelling requirements—is, according to this story, likely to trigger the next great social justice movement in Australia,...