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Biosecurity; what do we know?
colleagues in the industry to take biosecurity measures serious?
attention to these rules?
- Author: Mojtaba Yegani
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Biosecurity is the best thing to have happened to the Poultry industry in the recent time, It has been able to keep diseases at bay on many farms, It has also increase the farmer's income drastically, i think all farmers all over the world should embrace it.
while the news of avian influnza has spread across the globe ,the poultry producers have started to adopt biosecurity measures.Growing concerns regarding avain influenza strains affecting people and poultry flocks needs urgent measures to strengthen the defence against the disease ,as we have to learn to live with this virus in times to come. We have to educate the small poultry producers about biosecurity measures ,as these producers have little access to the veterinarians and know not much about the disease out there and how they are transmitted and controlled.Biosecurity has literally become a buzzword.we have to develope regional biosecurity measures so that individual poultry producers will link each other to help prevent the spread of the disease.
Dear dr.Yegani (my Patiot) please accept my warmest thanks for this blog.you are our Attribute. contamination to exist everywhere similar to sensation. i think biosecurity is the Vast word.biosecurity be prosperous when everythings Regard and everybody Administrate this.
I have to completely disagree with Dr. Yanko Ivanov and Dr.Ragip Bayraktar when the state, "..Avain influenza that effects mainly backyard poultry..." Avian influenza STARTED with and is a result of raising confinement chickens. BigAg and their mass confinement poultry is the breeding grounds for the Avian bird flu and many other diseases. You will be hard pressed to find any diseases in a "backyard" or freerange poultry flock. Why, because when it comes to what we now call biosecurity, has been practiced by the small flock owner for many years. Additionally, it is easy to keep track of small flocks and know what is going on then to manage 200,000,000 poultry crammed into one building. One major part that commercialized biosecurity completely overlooks is, "stop thinking about the almighty dollar, and concern yourself about the welfare of your poultry and the welfare of the people that your poultry will be feeding or supply eggs to". Let's get some real biosecurity started by getting rid of BigAg and their mass produced confinement poultry and bring back the smaller farmer who implements biosecurity to a degree that BigAg will never know!
Yes.people have learnt & benefitted by implementing biosecurity.But, when sustainability of industry is in question, where prices of feed, eggs & spent birds are not economical( no place for convincing )- when 30to60 % of flocks are recycled irrespective of age - then it's a breach of biosecurity in maintaining immunocompromised birds - will become carriers of another episode for South India in early summer.Think twice before recycling.
Biosecurity is to secure the life. This means there has to be a balance between pathogens and benificial organisms in such a way that both coexist without harming the life and performance of the host. We cannot give sterile environment in a farm. If the organisms exist they exist in both forms i,e pathogenic and non pathogenic. So find the ways and means to keep the balance so that the host will be able to build effective immunity levels by way of active immunity and in cases where the pathogens are very virulent can get passive immunity by way of vaccinations.
