Minimise the transmission of livestock diseases

Type: Effect

Links from: Item Link details Livestock housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned Sick or injured livestock are isolated Livestock health history is fully recorded Livestock movements are fully recorded Livestock have individual (or batch) identification Visitors to the farm pass through adequate disinfection facilities Veterinary equipment is maintained and kept clean Incoming livestock are quarantined Visitors to pig farms pass through adequate disinfection facilities Incoming pigs are quarantined Pig housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned 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 Visitors to poultry farms pass through adequate disinfection facilities Reduce contamination of forage/feed with pathogens Poultry housing, passageways and yards are regularly cleaned

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Links to: Link details Item Prevention of pain, injury and disease to livestock Improved control and eradication of animal diseases Reduce endemic diseases in animals Reduce incidence of zoonotic diseases in animals which might pose a hazard to human health Reduce deleterious impacts on livestock

Defra Project IF0131
Assessment of reduction in environmental burdens through targeted measures compared with whole farm approaches in cropping and livestock systems
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Friday 30 October 2009