AgriFutures Chicken Meat RD&E

In this episode, we talk with Dr Sonia Liu from the University of Sydney about the ideal amino acid ratios for wheat and sorghum based reduced-protein meat chicken diets. This work was part of a larger project that looked at 'Optimising amino acid profiles and energy in reduced protein diets'.

In this episode, we talk with Dr Sonia Liu from the University of Sydney about her latest project on 'Optimising amino acid profiles and energy in reduced protein diets'. 

In this podcast Eugene McGahan gives an overview of the National planning and environment guidelines for establishing meat chicken farms, published in December 2021 by AgriFutures Australia. More information about the guidelines is available on the Chicken meat RD&E website.

In this episode, Dr Carolyn de Koning from the South Australian Research and Development Institute, talks about her research into forage plant options for free range chicken meat farms.

In this episode, we talk to Dr Jeff Downing from the University of Sydney about using electrolytes as a supplement to alleviate heat stress in meat chickens. 

In this episode, we talk with Steven Rice from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland, about his research on using mycopesticides to treat darkling beetles (lesser mealworm) in meat chicken sheds.

In this episode, Dr Peter Selle from the Poultry Research Foundation with The University of Sydney, talks about his research into reduced crude protein diets and the importance of the essential amino acid threonine.

Reducing the amount of crude protein in poultry diets has many benefits. In this episode, Dr Peter Selle from the Poultry Research Foundation, within the University of Sydney, talks about some of these benefits. 

In this episode, we speak with Alex Howard from the South Australian Research and Development Institute, Department of Primary Industries, about why it is important to alter your control methods depending on the type of rodent you have on your poultry farm. 

In this episode, we speak with Alex Howard (South Australian Research and Development Institute, Department of Primary Industries) specifically about new and different options currently available for rodent control or new options being researched.