Biosecurity in Poultry Farms

Includes both the traffic onto your farm and the traffic patterns within the farm. People and equipment that come onto poultry facilities can mechanically carry with them many potentially devastating diseases.

Included in this group:

1- Feed delivery trucks and their drivers.

2- Vector control personnel.

3- Hatchery trucks and drivers.

4- Transport trucks and drivers.

5- Veterinarians and other consultants.

6- Visitors such as school tours.

7- Utility personnel and equipment repairmen

8- Curious or lost people.

1.   For controlling traffic coming onto the farm:

1- Direct the flow of on-farm traffic from youngest to the oldest birds. Direct the traffic flow from resident to the isolation area. Provide the gates with wheel baths containing a suitable disinfectant.

2- To control human traffic, it is more effective to use signs which must be clear and posted in areas where people can notice them. Fencing and gates can help to prevent wandering into areas of the farm.

3- Establish a “clear zone” Free of vegetation around the farm to discourage rodent and Insect

from approaching the buildings.

4- Clothing should be provided for visitors of the farm. Coveralls that cover all street clothing and plastic or rubber boots that cover visitor shoes should be worn.

Visitors should be asked to completely clean and disinfect hands before entering the farm.

5- People, who have been to other poultry farms should be turned away from the farm.

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