TAILIEUCHUNG - BIOSECURITY POULTRY AT COMMUNITY FARMS

A feather or one speck of fecal matter can carry billions of infectious germs. Avoid unnecessary human traffic, and prevent contact with unsanitary crates, equipment, or vehicles. Always wear clean clothes and footwear each time you return to your poultry production area. Allow visitors only after they have put on properly sanitized footwear, clothing, and hats. Insist that all poultry buyers bring only clean, disinfected crates. equipment, and vehicles into your farm with no visible fecal material or feathers. Better yet, transfer your birds to buyers at another location and clean your hauling equipment before returning home. Practice "all-in,. | PUBLICATION 8280 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources http REVIEWED Biosecurity for Poultry at Community Farms BRIGID A. MCCREA Postdoctoral Employee Department of Animal Science UC Davis FRANCINE A. BRADLEY UCCE Poultry Specialist UC Davis Community farms are an excellent way to bring agriculture into the city and allow urban residents to reconnect with mother earth. Many people find that they enjoy raising poultry but do not have the space for a small home flock. A solution to this problem is a community farm. This is a central site where many people raise and maintain poultry or other animals together. These locations are often associated with 4-H and FFA clubs or are alongside community gardens. Community farms need not necessarily be located in a city. Groups that start community farms for poultry must assume responsibility for proper care and disease prevention. The most important step in preserving flock health is the practice of biosecurity. WHAT IS BIOSECURITY Biosecurity refers to steps taken to prevent introduction of disease into a farm or flock. All bird owners should practice biosecurity since a good biosecurity plan helps keep disease out of a flock. While all commercial poultry ranches have such plans it is very simple to modify them for small flocks. Keep in mind that although the following recommendations may sound daunting you can implement as many components as possible gradually over weeks months or years. The three main tenets of biosecurity are isolation traffic control and sanitation. Traffic control and isolation are effective methods of managing the risk of disease in a flock. If these two components of biosecurity are removed is a poultry venture doomed to fail Hopefully not but added vigilance will be needed with regard to sanitation the final tenet of biosecurity. Sanitation includes the cleaning and disinfection C D of all equipment and materials that enter or remain on the farm.

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