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For Farmers
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Farm Sustainability Dashboard

The Farm Sustainability Dashboard has been designed to improve industry best practice and meet evolving community expectations. It has been created for business owners and is appropriate for farms of all sizes.

Biosecurity & Flock Health

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Leading Research: in Biosecurity & Flock Health

Maximising the health and productivity of hens is fundamental to maximising egg production and achieving satisfactory egg quality.

The increasing proportion of free range hens in recent years and the greater variability within free range production systems has the potential to impact the reliability of egg supply and consumer confidence. 

Investment in R&D will focus on the investigation of short term, industry transferable solutions to hen disease and biosecurity threats, as well as long term research investigating the development of vaccines and therapeutic medicines to ensure that we are addressing more complex issues. The intended outcome is lower hen mortality rates, less and shorter breaks in production and consequently, increased productivity.

To assist the industry in maintaining strict biosecurity Australian Eggs has produced a range of resources to translate research learnings into helpful on-farm resources. The booklets can be downloaded below, or ordered in printed format from Australian Eggs.

 

 

Key Resources

Current Research

Completed Research

Projects you might find interesting

Want to see what an egg farm looks like? Take this interactive 360 degree tour to see how eggs are produced in Australia.

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