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Vol 1. No. 10 October 2018 National Poultry Newspaper PO Box 387 Cleveland 4163 Phone (07) 3286 1833 Fax (07) 3821 2637 Email ben@poultrynews.com.au
World Egg Day – October 12
The building capacity session highlighted the success of PHA’s Researcher in Industry program.
Ideas Exchange conference successful and well attended
POULTRY Hub Aus- tralia’s Ideas Exchange conference was held at the end of September in Brisbane.
ing participants had def- initely gained a greater respect and understand- ing of chickens.
by TAMSYN CROWLEY Director
The conference was well attended, with close to 90 participants from across the industry and research sectors.
One participant stated: “Prior to the training I was scared of chickens and would not touch them, but now after training them I want to take my chicken home!”
The main themes of the conference were building capacity, brains trust and research high- lights.
level of engagement of Her project explored other participants and
The youth, energy and passion displayed in this session definitely lifted the excitement in the room, ready for the brains trust session.
The building capacity session included pres- entations from up-and- coming poultry research scientists who have participated in PHA’s Researcher in Industry Program.
Dr Peta Taylor.
ways to train chickens but also measured the
clearly demonstrated that following the train-
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It was great to hear about their experiences and what they had learnt from their direct inter- action with industry.
This session also fea- tured an undergradu- ate student who was a recipient of a PHA scholarship and had learnt to train chick- ens using clickers, under the direction of
Tamsyn Crowley and Lloyd Thomson eagerly reviewed the results of the online poll in the brains trust session.
WORLD Egg Day is celebrated on October 12 each year and in the lead-up to this year’s event, Australian Eggs has kicked off the in- augural Eggsellence Awards.
how and when eggs can be eaten, so it was a pleas- ing to see a stream of nominations from across Australia.
compete in a live cook-off in Sydney on October 12.
It is a national campaign to uncover Australia’s best egg dish and egg lovers have been nominating their favourite restau- rants and cafes by taking a photo of their meal and writing a short message about why they think it is a winner.
“Eggs are a big part of our culture, from eating egg soldiers as children to making the grandchil- dren’s birthday cake, we consume them almost every day.
The World Egg Day cook-off will take place in front of a panel of ac- claimed judges, led by My Kitchen Rules co-host and self-proclaimed egg lover Manu Feildel.
Australian Eggs man- aging director Rowan McMonnies said, “With almost 17 million eggs being eaten every day in Australia, we are thrilled to embark on this journey to find Australia’s best egg dish.”
Australian Eggs re- ceived over 100 nomi- nations from egg lovers around Australia.
World Egg Day is cel- ebrated around the world each year and the day pro- vides a great opportunity to remind people about the nutritious, delicious, affordable staple that is the humble egg.
“The rise of café cul- ture and food fashion has changed perceptions of
The top five nomina- tions will be announced in the lead-up to World Egg Day with the chefs from each restaurant to be given the chance to
Australian Eggs is com- mitted to drawing atten- tion to the event and max- imising positive coverage of eggs and the farmers who produce them.
“The Eggsellence Awards give Australians the opportunity to declare their love for egg dishes, from the simple eggs on toast to the most unusual assembly of egg-paired f lavours.”
The other judges are food writer and restaurant critic Elizabeth Meryment and food columnist An- thony Huckstep.
www.australianeggs. org.au
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