Reduce endemic diseases in animals Minimise the transmission of livestock diseases Livestock housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned
Poultry housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned
Reduce contamination of forage/feed with pathogens After slurry/manure application, pasture is not grazed for one month, preferably eight weeks, or until all visible signs of the slurry solids have disappeared
Muckheaps must be fenced off if they are in areas accessible to stock
Visitors to poultry farms pass through adequate disinfection facilities
Notify the relevant authority immediately if you know or suspect that an animal or carcass on the farm is infected with: foot and mouth disease; bluetongue; rinderpest; peste des petits ruminants; swine vesicular disease; epizootic haemorrhagic virus disease of deer; sheep and goat pox; vesicular stomatitis; African swine fever; lumpy skin disease; Rift Valley fever
Pig housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned
Incoming pigs are quarantined
Visitors to pig farms pass through adequate disinfection facilities
Incoming livestock are quarantined
Veterinary equipment is maintained and kept clean
Visitors to the farm pass through adequate disinfection facilities
Livestock have individual (or batch) identification
Livestock movements are fully recorded
Livestock health history is fully recorded
Sick or injured livestock are isolated