BIO-SECURITY

[showman]

I know quite a few fanciers have some sort of bio-security in place, like a footbath, but does anyone use, and make visiting fanciers use any type of handwash / handwipes before handling birds ?

[shaun h]

i just wash up after mate. never really thought about doing it before hand till i read this but will consider it in future after all it will stop cross contamination of birds illness. ;)

[Guest bigda]

some times you can be  to clean,   where is the  bio security at race marking from handlers,

and other birds  in the baskets and if there are a row of  drinker in the truck  watering 100 birds what then  bio security is more if you have birds ready to sell on to be eaten on a certain  week   and you are getting  paid by weight  of the bird  not wanting it   to be going light on you  

[JAS]

I know quite a few fanciers have some sort of bio-security in place, like a footbath, but does anyone use, and make visiting fanciers use any type of handwash / handwipes before handling birds ?

 

Going a bit far with hand wipes. Agree with with the foot dip we had that before we went in to the youngbirds 2 years back but not now. When you put your birds away you can,t tell whoever is puting your doos away to keep wipes for his hands. I would not like somebody with damp hands putting my birds through.

[dwh]

AGREE WI YA BIGDA WASTE ER TIME LOT OF VIRUS N BACTERIA  R AIRBORN

[Guest IB]

Bio-security of the type described is normally only put in place in a large scale livestock business with thousands of animals, to make sure staff don't spread disease between disease-free sheds & sites.

 

But we all practice bio-security to some degree every day in the loft. Loft coat, cleaning & disinfecting drinkers & feeders, wearing a mask, bagging & binning droppings, washing your hands - that's all bio-security too.