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Links to other industry websites |
| Here are some links to other industry websites which contain useful information and resources |
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Reference Documents for Growers |
| Links to a number of reference documents for growers, including the industry biosecurity manual. |
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History of the Meat Chicken Industry |
| Australia’s chicken meat industry has a relatively brief history when compared with the other major Australian livestock industries. No official Government records were kept until the mid 1960s so it is difficult to say when intensive poultry production began |
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Growing Meat Chickens |
| Most commercial meat chicken farms are intensive, highly mechanised units that occupy relatively small areas compared with conventional farming. Commercial broilers are run on litter floors in large open poultry sheds. They are not kept in cages. |
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