Gary Sansom Scholarship 2023 - Mr Caleb Wellard

Stability and safety of mycopesticides for lesser mealworm

Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and AgriFutures Australia have developed mycopesticides based on a specific strain of the fungus …

Develop a Biosecurity Manual for the Ratite Program

To help the ratite (emu and ostrich) industry to reduce and manage biosecurity risks, there is a need for a …

Managing Salmonella Enteritidis in the Australian Chicken Meat Industry

While there are low numbers of isolations of locally acquired Australian clades of SE from broilers the potential for these …

Evaluation of bioprotective bacteria to reduce Campylobacter on raw chicken meat at the end of primary processing

Campylobacter is a major foodborne disease-causing bacterium that is commonly present in raw chicken meat. This project will explore the …

Contribution to Pilot to Paddock Innovative energy, water & nutrient technologies & practices smart farms project

The AgriFutures Australia Chicken Meat program is contributing towards the project to Identify potential policy and regulatory barriers and …

The use of Infra-red technologies to improve animal welfare

The project will provide data and evidence for local producers about a. the value of using drone technologies (infra-red and …

A common approach to sector-level GHG accounting for Australian agriculture

This project is focused on developing a common framework for greenhouse gas accounting of Australian agricultural activities at the sector level.

OzAg Data exchange

The Australian AgriFood Data Exchange has a vision to create an interconnected data highway for Australia’s AgriFood value chain.…

Age dependent energy and digestible amino acids of common Australian feedstuffs

Phase feeding is a chicken feeding system in which energy content of the diet is increased and dietary amino acids (…

Chicken Meat Articles and Publications of Interest

"This 6-month project reviews newly published journal articles from the NCBI PubMed database of interest to the Chicken Meat …

Optimising ranging behaviour by free-range meat chickens

By altering rearing environments, early life experience and providing resources on the range, this investment aims to increase the number …

Development of a Cell Line for ILTV Vaccine Production - Formerly PRJ-010654

Infectious Laryngotracheitis Virus (ILTV) is causing significant commercial burden to the Australian poultry industry. Emergence of more virulent strains of …

Peri-hatching strategies to endure enteric pathogens in broilers

This investment will explore in ovo interventions and early post hatch feeding strategies to increase post hatching performance and robustness …

Biorefineries for profit - phase 2

The Biorefineries for Profit project is developing technologies to convert crop and crop-processing residues into high value animal feed supplements …

Economic impact of non-starch polysaccharides in broiler diets

Non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) have antinutritional effects on boiler chickens; insoluble NSP act as nutrient diluents and physical barriers to enzymes …

Branched-chain amino acids in wheat-based, crude protein-reduced diets

The chicken meat industry recognises the benefits associated with a reduced crude protein diet. This investment seeks to understand the …

The response of broilers to insoluble fibre and exogenous enzymes in low protein

This investment examines whether lowering dietary crude protein in meat chicken feed can be realised through the supplementation of different …

Optimising amino acid profiles and energy in reduced-protein diets

This investment will investigate amino acid requirements and validate ideal protein ratios for modern genotype broiler chickens being fed reduced …

An investigative study of shed management simulation training tools

This investment will collate the tools available for chicken shed management including the impact of external and internal environmental factors …