Biosecurity

We have a keen awareness of biosecurity at our factory, and use the following guidelines to address potential issues. Whilst these guidelines focus primarily on farming operations, the basic principles apply to our system as well.

You can be assured that easichick™ operations, and our factory environment, are clean and safe.

Controlling disease-carrying organisms

Producers should take the time to eliminate as many infectious agents as possible, as high mortality and/or poor performance can be extremely costly in the long run.

Disease-causing organisms are introduced or transmitted to poultry in a variety of ways.

• Carriers within a flock
• Birds recently acquired from an outside flock
• Eggs from infected breeder flocks
• Human feet, hands and clothes
• Dust, feathers and manure on equipment and supplies, such as trucks, coops and egg flats
• Feral birds, predators, rodents, flies and insects
• Contaminated vaccines; either live or inactivated vaccines can be contaminated - a live vaccine would not normally be disease-causing
• Feed contaminated at the manufacturing plant, in transit, or in farm bins
• Water
• Air

Where possible, a bird population should not be housed downwind from another group of birds. When buildings are close together, exhaust gas and dust from one house should not be pushed into the air intakes of the next house.

More specific biosecurity information

• Traffic control
• Access restrictions
• Security involving service personnel
• Litter security