The first step to keeping a healthy strain
Most Breeders don’t understand biosecurity, and the importance of keeping your birds safe from the exposure of disease, which can spread very quickly throughout the yard. Some of us have kept and bred the same strains for over 30 years. Losing our birds to disease would be a travesty.
This information, if you follow it, will save your flock, and protect those valuable and irreplaceable strains. It’s so much easier to prevent disease than it is to try and cure a sick bird. In most cases, birds that were sick become chronic and never fully recover. In fact, they rarely reach their potential.
Today, we’re talking with Dr. Rodrigo Gallardo, who is a Poultry Veterinarian with UC Davis.
In this episode we will talk about:
- What is biosecurity, and what does it mean to the average backyard breeder?
- Why is biosecurity so important?
- We talked about “The most dangerous infectious diseases?”
- Can medications and vaccinations make-up for poor farm management and biosecurity?
- What are the various vectors for diseases? How can disease find its way into your yard?
- How important is it to keep a closed yard?
- What about those who “over clean” their pens or clean too often?
- Does Culling play a role in improving biosecurity?
- As breeders, what can we do to improve biosecurity?
Make sure to take notes. We are going to provide a lot of good information on biosecurity and disease prevention. I suggest you put these principles into practice and developed a biosecurity program that will protect your fowl, and preserve your strains well into the future.
I want to thank Dr. Gallardo from UC Davis for coming on the show and providing us with this valuable information.
