as a Commodity Future trends Social Pressure for cage free production conversions from conventional cages to Aviary housing c age free Enriched colony housing intermediate phasing out ID: 784528
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Slide1
Vision
Eggs and Beyond
Slide2Eggs as a Commodity
-Future trends?
“Social” Pressure for “cage free” production – conversions from conventional cages to:
Aviary housing (
c
age free)
Enriched colony housing (intermediate - phasing out)
Free-range housing
Male chick disposal/utilization?
Emergence of Diseases
Avian Influenza – perennial problem
Regulatory burden
Food and Drug Administration Salmonella Prevention
Program (2009)
B
iosecurity
, rodent
suppression,
monitoring of
flocks, and handling of eggs from the
time of
lay
through the entire distribution chain
.
Training needs continue
Slide3PDPS – Where are we now?
Faculty –Ken Anderson
Facilities
NCDA Piedmont Research Station –
NORTH CAROLINA LAYER PERFORMANCE AND MANAGEMENT
TEST
House 8 CEU – ~900 bird facility for layers
House 10 CEU – 9 floor pens
Egg Quality Laboratory? (Anderson)
Scott Hall Animal Wing? – Battery Cages for pullets/layers
Dearstyne
Animal and Poultry Teaching Unit (32 floor pens)
Curriculum – (Courses on the Books)
PO 322: Muscle Foods and
Eggs (eggs never addressed)
PO 340: Live Poultry and Poultry Product Evaluation, Grading, and Inspection
PO
421:
Commercial Egg Production
? (odd years)
PO 433: Poultry Processing and
Products (meat only?)
Slide4PDPS – One to Five Years
FacultyAssistant Professor Animal Welfare
Endowed Layer Professorship
Interface of
H
ousing systems/Nutrition/Reproduction
Piedmont Research Station – underutilized
conventional cages (3,600 birds)
cage-free (2,160 birds)
enriched colony systems (7,700 birds)
free-range facility (960 birds).
60,000 egg hatchery
(six 10,000 egg setters, 5 hatchers)
Pullet cage
rearing facility (14,600 birds
)
Cage-free/free range rearing (~3,500 birds)
Slide5Piedmont Research Station
60,000 egg hatchery (six 10,000 egg setters, 5 hatchers)
Add a new hatcher for 1-to-1 transfer of eggs
Expands incubation research
Cross purpose for egg and broiler breeder hatchery management
Multiple housing systems
Aviary housing needed (US and EEC production models)
Sustainability – economic and environmental
Animal welfare
Become a Registered USDA egg processing facility
Allows for egg processing research
Allows eggs to be sold at market price
Slide6PDPS – One to Five Years
Improve small scale layer
research facilities
House 8 – designed as a pedigree facility
Historically used for
transgenics
Currently used for small scale-layer projects
Not ideal, not designed for replicate research
Proposed – “Flex” House Remodel
Improve small-scale
hatching, brooding and growing
facilities
Scott Hall – small scale hatching, brooding, and cage growing
Revamp Scott Hall
Remodel a house at CEU (House 18?, House 231?)
More fully utilize facilities at Piedmont
Slide7“Flex” House Remodel
18
8
Slide8Curriculum – 1-5 years
Egg Production, Safety, and Quality Certificate
Program (12 credits)
PO 520 Shell Egg Grading and Quality – 3Cr
Hr
PO 522 Egg Products Facilities, processes, and functional properties egg - 3Cr
Hr
PO 524
Developing an Egg Safety Plan – 3 Cr
Hr
PO 526 Advanced Lay Complex Management – 3 Cr
Hr
Revisit:
PO 322: Muscle Foods and Eggs
PO 340: Live Poultry and Poultry Product Evaluation, Grading, and Inspection
PO
421: Commercial
Egg
Production
PO 433: Poultry Processing and
Production
Slide9The Beyond….
First in Food Animal IntegrationConsumer connections
NC Ag Education Trail at Lake Wheeler
Food Animal Pilot Plant
first totally integrated food animal system for
ALL
major food animal species
World-Class Teaching and Research Facilities
Remodel swine, poultry and intensive animal research facilities
Upgrade technology to support higher-level research and disease challenges (BSL2/3)
New Facilities for meat and muscle science, aquaculture.
New CVM Food Animal Services Building
Food Animal Systems Initiative
Growing talent, solutions, opportunities and economies
Slide10Summary
FacultyTwo positions on the books
Facilities
Dearstyne
Needs to stay on the radar
Piedmont
Hatcher would complete current facility
Aviary System
USDA Approved Egg Processing
CEU
“Flex” House
Remodel
Curriculum
Egg Certificate – underway
Re-examination of current courses