What is Biosecurity?
Biosecurity means doing everything you can to keep disease off the farm. Biosecurity is more than a buzzword, it’s an insurance for your farm, protecting your herd and your profits.
The breeding season and summer periods will bring increased footfall to farms, strengthening biosecurity protocols to all farms now is critical.
Poor biosecurity during breeding season can bring diseases on to farms such as BVD. These diseases can impact conception rates, cause pregnancy losses, and compromise calf viability ultimately costing farmers thousands of euros in lost income and veterinary bills. Simple, cost-effective measures can protect farmers’ breeding programmes. The campaign focuses on key areas of risk and delivers advice from the AHI Biosecurity Technical Working Group.
BUYER BEWARE
Before you buy Think
- New stock, new risk
After you buy Do
- Check transport – is it clean / shared with animals from another herd?
- Isolate new stock
- Complete testing, treatments, vaccinations
Locking out Disease: Visitors can carry more than advice!
Before they enter Think
- Boots, wheels, hands, unwanted guests – disease travels
VACCINATION
Think Prevention is better than cure
- Make vaccination part of a herd health plan
FENCING
Think Break-ins / Break-outs
- Avoid the unwanted neighbour