Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILTV) in the Australian Poultry Industry
AgriFutures has supported research to safeguard the meat chicken industry from significant ILTV losses by developing better testing and prevention methods.
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Maintaining a high level of chicken health and welfare is a high priority for the Australian chicken meat industry. Research into disease management and control is an example of how industry is focusing its efforts to continually improve bird health.
Recently completed health-related research projects funded by the AgriFutures Australia Chicken Meat Program include:
- Next generation probiotics to enhance the gut health of chickens – project snapshot (PRJ-011008)
- Population level biomarkers of gut health in commercial flocks – final report and summary (PRJ-011908)
- Increasing Australia’s preparedness for vvIBDV – project summary (PRJ-010978)
- Dynamics of ILT spread and role of dust in epidemiology, diagnostics and control (PRJ-010639)
- Clouds and Pasteurella multocida – final report (PRJ-010276)
- Surveillance and pathotyping of Australian IBDV – final report summary | Surveillance and pathotyping of Australian IBDV – final report (PRJ-008715)
The health of meat chickens is also closely linked to their nutrition, welfare, environment and biosecurity. Visit our nutrition, welfare, environment and biosecurity pages for more information. Detailed webinars are available here.
To read more detailed information about chicken health management and disease visit the PoultryHub.
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