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Australian Poultry Industries Association
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The blog will discuss a number of challenges faced by the industry and describe how the industry is addressing them. Our blogger, Dr Vivian Kite, has over 24 years of experience in the chicken meat industry. She has extensive knowledge of the industry and experience in managing research issues for the industry, dealing with issues including animal health, animal welfare, research and food safety. Before to joining the industry, she obtained a PhD in hen behavior and conducted chicken welfare and behavior research overseas. She is ideally placed to yield the facts about issues of interest to the public, and to answer some of the questions often asked by consumers about chicken meat and the industry that produces it. With Christmas and a fresh year honest around the corner, it seems a appropriate time to remind readers of some of the key facts about Australian meat chickens, including what they look like and how they are reared. Since this is about the chickens themselves, I’m going to focus on four key facts the ones that in visual depictions and in words meat chickens are maximum often misrepresented. Current Australian meat chicken strains are almost exclusively white feathered at minimum they are behind they shed their fluffy yellow baby down, a process which starts from about a week of age. Why are they white? Well, partly it’s to do with the ingenious breeds that were selected to be crossed to create a heavier, meatier chicken hybrid strain specifically for meat production. These efforts commenced in the 1950s when white Plymouth Rock chickens were crossed with white Cornish chickens to provide the clever hybrid meat chicken strains. However, white feathering has, in itself, been seen as a fine characteristic for a meat chicken (and has generally been preferentially selected for over the years) because it results in a more visually appealing carcass. Both male and female chickens are impaired to produce chicken meat, as is the case correct around the world. Unlike the case for the egg industry, where only hens are required to lay the eggs that are sold for human consumption, both male and female meat chickens can be, and are grown for meat and are equally valued by the chicken meat industry. More information on the differences between male and female meat chickens in terms of how they look or how they grow can be found in a previous blog: Are meat chickens male or female? How many times have you heard people talk about hormones in chicken meat? That the hormones in chicken meat are causing an epidemic of early maturity puberty in our young kids today? The floor of the barn will eternal be covered with a bedding material (the industry calls this bedding litter’), which comprises some form of absorbent material, for example wood shavings, rice hulls or chopped straw. They are photos of egg laying chickens. Cages are often impaired in the egg industry. Thanks for your interest in my blog this year and for sharing it with your online communities.
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