Field exercise: draw your farm's biosecurity plan (zones, entrances, flows)
You have learned the zones, the flows, the airlock, the footbath, the quarantine, the pests. Now you go out with a sheet of paper, a three-colour pencil and a tape measure, and you draw your farm as it is, not as it should be. The drawing will bring out what the eye no longer sees from walking past it: the litter heap five metres from the house, the motorbike parked against the wall, the watchman's backyard coop. At the end you will have chapter 1 of your biosecurity plan and a decision sheet to present to the owner. Allow two hours, technician and owner together.
14 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Level 9 — Advanced health: understand, prevent, monitor. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 8 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
- ✓Survey on the ground every element of a farm that matters for biosecurity
- ✓Draw the three zones and trace the flows, then spot every clean-dirty crossing
- ✓Fill in a decision sheet: weak point, risk, measure, effort, person in charge, date
- ✓Score the farm on a ten-point grid and set the first three corrections