Green Poultry

A study by Cranfield University in the United Kingdom has found that poultry is the most environmentally efficient protein. The image below shows the primary energy use and global warming potential of livestock farming.



To read the full story and for further information on the study click on the following link:

http://www.ecoagribiz-digital.com/ecoagribiz/200804/?u1=friend%2F&folio=5

New Look Cornfed - Coming Soon

Steggles is about to relaunch it's flagship cornfed product. So if you like your chooks fed with the silver spoon stay logged on to chookchat. The word from the line about the new look cornfed product is: it's gold!

Sale Plucked Following Liquidity Concerns

While a number of parties expressed an interest in purchasing Bartter-Steggles to date the company has not received a suitable offer. Hardly surprising given the current state of the financial markets. Until things significantly recover it is very much business as usual for Bartter-Steggles as it continues to build and grow its national operation.

It's Show Time

The poultry industry is on display at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney with the industry's peak body, the Australian Chicken Meat Federation (ACMF), showcasing meat chickens and egg chickens. For more pictures of the 2008 Royal Easter Show click the following link: http://www.chicken.org.au/page.php?id=200&gallery=Royal%20Easter%20Show%202008

It's hard to ride past this news!

One of Steggles national competitors, Ingham, has sold its thoroughbred breeding and racing empire to the ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. The Sheik is the most influential figure in world breeding and thoroughbred racing today. His successful bid of close to $500 million beat John Singleton and Lloyd Williams offer of $300 million by a couple of lenghts at least. For the full story please visit this link to Crickey:
http://www.crikey.com.au/Media-Arts-and-Sports/20080325-Ingham-sale-sheiks-things-up.html

Chicken rules the roost!

Keep an eye out for this chicken information sheet from Steggles because you can never know enough about what you eat.

From History to the Hi-Tech

If anyone was wondering about a chicken's DNA:

Bartter's Winning Beginning

Does anyone know the story of how Bartter began? This is a newpaper cutting from the 1950s when Peter Bartter was recognised for his junior farmer project. Amazing to think that a business that started out with 100 chickens under a light bulb today processes more than 2.4 million chickens every week. I heard someone say the other day that they thought Bartter-Steggles feeds 1/3 of the Australian population every week. That's a lot of chicken!

Bird's Eye View of Beresfield

Have you ever seen Beresfield from the air? This photo of Beresfield was taken last week, would anyone like to see any of the other sites from 10,000 feet?