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The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine provides teaching, research and service programs benefiting animal health, public health and environmental health. The School's focus in poultry is mostly regarding disease and reducing the spread of avian influenza.
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Poultry Biosecurity Resource Forum: ideas to improve biosecurity on poultry ranches. Additional information on biosecurity and sanitation-disinfection basics for poultry flocks, such as preventing avian influenza in small flocks, and the Avian Influenza Fact Sheet is available in the Fact Sheets & Info/Poultry section.
Poultry Biosecurity Resource Forum
- Poultry Biosecurity Resource Forum In the context of biosecurity, egg processing rooms and coolers are considered dirty areas because processing plants handle eggs from all flocks on the farm and may receive eggs from other farms. Processing plants are a melting pot, receiving eggs and equipment (pallets, racks and flats) from multiple sources, all of which could potentially bring infectious disease agents into one central location...Read More
- How to keep disease agents on egg flats, palettes, or egg racks from infecting your flockEgg flats, palettes,and egg racks are a good way for an unwanted disease organism to enter a poultry farm and infect resident birds. If we follow the path of egg flats, palettes, and egg racks, it is easy to see how this can happen...Read More
- Hand sanitation for visitors and employees Hand sanitation is a critical part of biosecurity when making visits to poultry ranches. Human visitors are a necessary part of a poultry production facility, whether they are the flock veterinarian, a feed truck driver or an inspector. They all have to come onto the farm...Read More
- How much can they take?Most disease agents cannot survive very long outside the chicken and their survival time is reduced by heat. So, how much heat does it take and how long should exposure be to inactivate various disease agents? The table below summarizes data on several important poultry disease agents and their ability to withstand high temperatures...Click here to see the results
- Composting to inactivate disease agentsComposting utilizes aerobic bacteria and fungi to break organic material into humus-like material called compost. Since the bacteria involved in composting produce heat as they work, few bacterial or viral organisms survive the entire composting process...Read More
- Innovative ways to control traffic on the farm Traffic control is one of the most difficult aspects of maintaining a good biosecurity program because it depends on human compliance. It's easy to make mistakes and almost impossible to validate. Signs are a good way to control traffic coming onto the farm, but they are often ignored by employees and frequent visitors to the farm. Fences and barriers are very effective ways to direct on-farm traffic, but can be expensive to install...Read More
Avian Influenza Resource Forum
- Avian Influenza covers some basic facts about AI and outlines practices that, when incorporated, can limit the risk of becoming infected...Read More
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza describes what the highly pathogenic form of this disease can look like...Read More
