Webinars

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Below is a list of webinar recordings now available related to biosecurity, environment, gut health and nutrition. Click to view individual webinars.

2024 Webinar Series

• Broiler nutrition – Reza Barekatain, Sonia Liu (November 2024)
  • Accompanying resources:
    Negative consequences of reduced protein diets supplemented with synthetic amino acids for performance, intestinal barrier function, and caecal microbiota composition of broiler chickens
    Transgenic, high-protein sorghums display promise in poultry diets in an initial comparison – PubMed
• Litter Management for the summer season – Mark Dunlop (October 2024)
  • Accompanying resources:
    Webinar slides
    Litterpedia
    Litter management article
    Most recent completed work by researcher Mark Dunlop
• Australian Chicken Meat Industry Sustainability Framework – Mary Wu, Brian Astridge (September 2024)
  • Accompanying resources:
    Sustainability Framework
    Sustainability Framework – explainer video
    Sustainability Framework – launch at Parliament House
• Avian Influenza – Michelle Willa and Jasmina Luczo (August 2024)
  • Accompanying resources:
    Michelle’s website of Avian Influenza resources
• Emergency Disease Preparedness & Biosecurity – Rob Barwell, Rodney Jenner, Chris Aitken (July 2024)
  • Accompanying resources:
    AgriFutures Chicken Meat Extension – Biosecurity information and resources (plus below Biosecurity selection)
    Emergency Animal Disease Hotline
    Emergency Animal Disease Online Training
    ExoFlare
    Farm Biosecurity website
    National Biosecurity Training Hub
    National Farm Biosecurity Manual for Chicken Growers
    National Water Biosecurity Manual Poultry Production

Behaviour

• Optimising meat chicken range use, Peta Taylor (Sept 2023)
• Do maternal calls modify chicken behaviour, Peta Taylor (Sept 2023)
• Optimising range use through the rearing environment, Peta Taylor (Oct 2021)
• Using maternal calls to modify chicken behaviour, Peta Taylor (Oct 2021)

Biosecurity

• Emergency Disease Preparedness & Biosecurity, Rob Barwell, Rodney Jenner, Chris Aitken (July 2024)
• Exoflare – Biosecurity online risk assessment, Chris Aitken and Yvonne Poon (April 2023)
• Introduction to farm biosecurity for chicken growers – online training, Felicity McIntosh (July 2022)
• On-farm biosecurity and end of batch clean out, Shruti Vijay Kumar (July 2022)
• Rodent control, Alex Howard (April 2021)
• Mass disposal preparedness, Rod Jenner (April 2021)
• Poultry decontamination project, Margaret Sexton (April 2021)

Environment

Litter

• Options to help keep litter dry, Mark Dunlop (July 2023)
• Litter moisture recap, Mark Dunlop (June 2022)
• Using circulation fans to keep litter dry, Connie Mou (July 2021)
• Ventilating to dry litter, Mark Dunlop (July 2021)
• Controlling broiler house litter moisture… the early weeks, Michael Czarick (May 2021)
• Drying litter before chick placement, Mark Dunlop (May 2021)
• Litter supply and risk management, Eugene McGahan (July 2020)
• Litter amendments, Mark Dunlop (July 2020)
• Litter best practice manual, Eugene McGahan (July 2020)

Water and energy

• In shed sprinkler systems, Mark Dunlop (Sept 2020)
• Potential energy savings using direct-drive variable speed fans, Mark Dunlop (Sept 2020)
• Best management practice for water quality and sterilisation on farm, Stephen Wiedemann (Sept 2020)
• Water security in the chicken meat industry, Eugene McGahan
• Solar PV assessment tool, Gareth Forde (Sept 2020)

Environmental sustainability

• Australian Chicken Meat Industry Sustainability Framework – Mary Wu, Brian Astridge (September 2024)
  • Accompanying resources:
    Framework document
• Environmental sustainability: pathways to reduce carbon footprint in meat chicken farming, Fran Copely (Dec 2022)
• Materiality assessment, Alan Dayeh – Point Advisory (Oct 2022)
• National planning and environmental guidelines for establishing meat chicken farms – how to use the applicant and assessor guide, Eugene McGahan (March 2022)
• Carbon & environmental impacts of poultry: 2020 and beyond, Fran Copely (April 2021)
• National planning and environmental guidelines, Eugene McGahan (Nov 2020)
• Mycopesticides for the control of darkling beetles, Steven Rice (Nov 2020)

Gut health

• Next gen probiotics, Rob Moore (May 2023)
• Essential oils and gut function, Shahram Niknafs (May, 2023)
• Next generation probiotics to enhance the gut health of chickens, Rob Moore (Sept 2020)
• Critical amino acids to improve gut integrity of chickens fed reduced protein diets, Reza Barekatain (Sept 2020)
• Population level biomarkers of gut health in commercial flocks, Priscilla Geber (Sept 2020)

Health and welfare

• Brooding; setting your chicks up for success, Debbie Fisher (Aug 2022)
• Current practices to predict flock health, enhance performance and improve sustainability, Robin Achari (April 2022)
• Dynamics of ILT spread and role of dust in epidemiology, diagnostics and control, Stephen Walkden-Brown (April 2022)

Nutrition

• Optimising amino acid profiles and energy in reduced protein diets, Sonia Liu (Nov 2022)
• The response of broilers to insoluble fibre and exogenous enzymes in low protein diets, Shubiao Wu (Nov 2022)
• An investigation into the influence of age on the standardised amino acid digestibility of Australian wheat and sorghum in broilers, Mukti Barua (April 2021)
• Interactive impact of IAAR and dietary crude protein concentrations on broiler performance, Shemil Macelline (Sept 2021)
• Optimising barley inclusion in the diet of meat chickens, Mehdi Toghyani (April 2021)
• Formulating with non-starch polysaccharides, Natalie Morgan (Oct 2020)
• Responses of single or mixed sex broilers to low protein diets and the variations, Shubiao Wu (Oct 2020)
• Formulating broiler diets based on protein and starch digestive dynamics, Sonia Liu (Oct 2020)
• Database of the nutrient content of Australian feed ingredients, Amy Moss (Oct 2020)
• Utilising synthetic amino acids and branched-chain amino acids in low protein diets, Peter Selle (Aug 2020)
• Optimising amino acid profiles and energy in reduced protein diets, Sonia Liu (Aug 2020)
• Response of meat chickens to arginine in reduced protein diets, Bob Swick (Aug 2020)
• The response of broilers to insoluble fibre and exogenous enzymes in low protein diets, Shubiao Wu (Aug 2020)

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