Agriculture Victoria is seeking your feedback to understand poultry owners’ views and experiences regarding the 2024 avian influenza outbreak in the Golden Plains and Corangamite Shires. Poultry includes chicken, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, quail, pheasants, emus and ostriches.

In particular, we are keen to get your feedback on the communications we provided to you about the outbreak to identify what worked well and areas for improvement.

The survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

You can only take the survey once, but you can edit your responses until you submit your completed survey. Please forward the survey to any other poultry owners you know.

The Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Action (DEECA) is committed to protecting personal information provided by you in accordance with the privacy principles in the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic).

Your responses are completely anonymous, data will be reported in an aggregated format only so that no individual can be identified.

Should you have any further questions about this survey and how it will be used, please contact lcc.publicinformation@agriculture.vic.gov.au.

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* 1. How many birds (chicken, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, quail, pheasants, emus and ostriches) do you have currently?

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* 2. What types of poultry do you own? Please select all that apply.

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* 3. Where in Victoria do you live?

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* 4. Are you aware of the current avian influenza response in Victoria, which began in May 2024?

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* 5. Are you aware that Agriculture Victoria is the lead agency for the avian influenza response in Victoria?

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* 6. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

  Strongly disagree Disagree Neither agree or disagree Agree Strongly agree N/A
Agriculture Victoria has provided me with a range of communications materials about avian influenza
The information provided by Agriculture Victoria has met my needs

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* 7. Communications: Please rate your satisfaction with the following aspects of the avian influenza information provided by Agriculture Victoria.

  Very dissatisfied Somewhat dissatisfied Neither satisfied or dissatisfied Somewhat satisfied Very satisfied N/A
Information on how avian influenza spreads
Information on the signs and symptoms in poultry
Information about how to protect your poultry
How satisfied were you with details of what the control area and restricted areas?
Information regarding permits for the movement of birds, poultry products, and equipment
Information regarding housing requirements
Maps of the control and restricted areas
Information on how authorities were responding to the outbreak?

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* 8. How did you receive information from Agriculture Victoria about the avian influenza response? Please select all that apply

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* 9. In future, when receiving information from Agriculture Victoria about avian influenza, which of the following channels would you prefer? Please select all that apply.

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* 10. What, if anything did you do differently as a result of the information provided by Agriculture Victoria about avian influenza? Please select all that apply.

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* 11. If you were in the control and/or restricted areas (within the Corangamite or Golden Plains Shires), did you house your poultry?

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* 12. What, if anything have you done and/or continue to do to keep your poultry away from wild birds? Please select all that apply.

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* 13. Do you have any additional comments or feedback about the communications from Agriculture Victoria about avian influenza?

Thank you for providing your feedback.
Your time and contribution is very much appreciated.

Please press 'Done' to submit your survey.

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