Project Details
Description
This project aims to develop interventions that improve chicken welfare by increasing the stress resilience of meat chicken breeder birds. This project expects to advance qualitative feeding programs and farm environments to reduce chronic hunger, increase stress resilience and positively impact progeny through transgenerational effects.
Expected outcomes of this project include commercially relevant strategies to improve the lives of 530,250 parent stock and 707 million meat chickens annually in Australia alone. This will provide significant benefits such as improving the quality of life of breeder chickens, enhancing production efficiency and sustainability of chicken meat, and safeguarding the industry’s social license.
Expected outcomes of this project include commercially relevant strategies to improve the lives of 530,250 parent stock and 707 million meat chickens annually in Australia alone. This will provide significant benefits such as improving the quality of life of breeder chickens, enhancing production efficiency and sustainability of chicken meat, and safeguarding the industry’s social license.
Funding
Funder: Australian Research Council - Linkage Projects
Amount: A$593,192
Amount: A$593,192
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/01/26 → 31/12/28 |
Collaborative partners
- University of Melbourne (lead)
- Curtin University
- University of Adelaide
- University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
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