Chicken house footbath Block the bug before it bugs your flock!! Biosecurity is a practice designed to prevent the spread of disease onto your farm. Biosecurity has three (3) major components: 1. Isolation 2. Traffic control 3. Sanitation Biosecurity Measures: 1. Fencing: Stop access of local chicken, villagers, and other intruders into your farm. 2. Keep visitors to a minimum: Egg buyers visit many farms in a day collecting eggs, so they can easily transmit disease if not properly handled. Allowing in anyone in and out of the farm can easily lead to spread of disease. 3. Limit visitations to other poultry farms, and limit your associations with other farmers: Some diseases like Gumboro are carried onto the farm, and our shoes, our vehicles, our clothes etc. can carry these infections. 4. Keep all animals and wild birds out of poultry houses: Some of the wild birds can harbour diseases, but don't get affected and when brought nearer to our flocks, the disease gets a
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