Daily biosecurity: anteroom, clothing, footbaths, visitors, vehicles, rodents, flies

This lesson is part of Farm health technician specialisation. It opens to every registered student, from free registration. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.

The health plan says what must be done; daily biosecurity is doing it every day, including Sunday, including when the owner is in a hurry and the buyer is waiting. On a three-house farm, this means dozens of repeated gestures: brushing, dipping, changing boots, signing a register, counting flies, checking a bait station, carrying a closed bucket. Each of these gestures has a figure behind it: a volume, a frequency, a distance, a delay. This lesson gives those figures, calculates them on the farm we are following, and gives you the daily checklist of the health technician.

• ✓Organise the anteroom, the colour-coded clothing and the boot circuit on a three-house farm
• ✓Size and renew the footbaths with a volume calculation and a calendar
• ✓Manage visitors, vehicles, rodents, flies and carcasses with numbered rules
• ✓Keep the daily and weekly biosecurity checklist

1. The anteroom and the clothing: the border crossed twenty times a day
2. Footbaths: volume, renewal, and what makes them useless
3. Visitors and vehicles: the gate decides
4. Rodents and flies: count in order to act
5. Carcasses: twice a day, a closed bucket, 60 metres
6. Going further

• •One single anteroom with bench and soap, three sets of colour-coded clothing (H3 blue, H2 green, H1 red) and one mini-anteroom per sub-zone; hands washed for twenty seconds at every entry and exit; the phone does not enter.
• •Seven footbaths of 10 to 12 litres, brush and bucket of water in front, ten seconds flat, lid, renewal every two days at most (210 litres per week on the farm), each renewal noted.
• •Visitors: register, 48 hours without poultry, clothing provided, accompanied; outside vehicles stopped at the red boundary; buyer on the loading area with farm crates.
• •Rodents: one bait station every 10 to 15 m (22 on the farm), checked on Monday, action above 20 % eaten; flies: one sticky card per house, action above 100 per week, alert above 300.
• •Carcasses: morning and evening, closed bucket per sub-zone, counted, carried after the round to the pit 60 m away, never in front of a younger house; hands washed.