Procedure -Biosecurity for Poultry
Biosecurity for Poultry Procedure
Section: Human Resource Procedures
Procedure Owner: Ignition633 Ministries Nigeria Human Resources
Procedure Name: Meal preparation Procedure
Origination Date: August 2024
Definition:
Biosecurity: practices, measures, and protocols designed to protect living organisms, such as animals, plants, and humans, from harmful biological agents like diseases, pests, and pathogens.
Poultry: domesticated birds that are raised for their eggs, meat, or feathers.
Biosecurity prevents disease-causing agents that can risk farm animals' food quality and health. This helps to prevent bacteria from entering or leaving farm enclosures. Good biosecurity should always be practiced, not just during a disease outbreak. It involves taking the proper measures in the early stages of an epidemic because prevention is better than cure.
Conduct a risk assessment for your farm.
Conduct a risk assessment for each farm to establish what level of risk exists in each phase of its operations.
How disease agents might spread between poultry flocks
Viruses, bacteria, and parasites can spread between poultry flocks through exposure to:
- Contaminated equipment and vehicles that move between farms
- Contaminated clothing and footwear of farm workers or visitors
- infected animals, such as wild birds, insects, rodents, and pets
- Contaminated air on particles of dust from nearby farms or markets. Gardens that apply untreated poultry manure as fertilizer
- Contaminated water is used for drinking or cooling.
Ways of observing biosecurity
You can observe biosecurity by taking these measures before entering the flock and the chicken's pen.
- Take a bath and change into the coop coveralls and protective boots.
- Dip your feet all the way into the foot bath for disinfection.
- Constant body fumigation and hand sanitizing: Anytime you come out and go into a different pen, you must sanitize your hands and be fumigated before entering another pen.
- Disinfecting and cleaning of utensils regularly.
- Disinfecting the vehicle before transporting birds.
How disease agents might spread between poultry flocks
Viruses, bacteria, and parasites can spread between poultry flocks through exposure to:
- Contaminated equipment and vehicles that move between farms
- Contaminated clothing and footwear of farm workers or visitors
- infected animals, such as wild birds, insects, rodents, and pets
- Contaminated air on particles of dust from nearby farms or markets. Gardens that apply untreated poultry manure as fertilizer
- Contaminated water is used for drinking or cooling.
Ways of observing biosecurity
You can observe biosecurity by taking these measures before entering the chicken's pen.
- Take a bath and change into the coop coveralls and protective boots.
- Dip your feet all the way into the foot bath for disinfection.
- Constant body fumigation and hand sanitizing: Anytime you come out and go into a different pen, you must sanitize your hands and be fumigated before entering a different pen.
- Disinfecting and cleaning of utensils regularly.
- Disinfecting the vehicle before transporting birds.