The three main ingredients to growing a bird are water, air and feed. This time, we're focusing on water, and specifically, cleaning chicken drinker...
Source: Cackle Hatchery
Biosecurity for chickens includes all precautions you take to protect your flock from coming down with a disease. The more precautions you...
By Tim Nelson, CIO
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HPAI has resulted in the loss of 7.65 billion birds in the United States and more than 3 million...
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Biosecurity is key to preventing and reducing disease risk, including avian influenza.
Enforce biosecurity basics including isolation, flow control, sanitation and cleaning and...
Biosecurity is not a new concept for the poultry, swine, or dairy industries. However, it is a challenge that we continually face in animal...
By Carol Cardona, Extension specialist, poultry virologist
A single duck can excrete billions of influenza virus particles per day. Influenza virus survives in cold, moist conditions...
As the summer solstice passes and the days begin to grow shorter, now is the time to begin planning for the fall autumnal waterfowl...
On September 17th, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed a positive case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) on an Ontario poultry farm...
Last Modified: Feb 8, 2019
What is Biosecurity?
Biosecurity refers to everything that’s done to keep diseases and the pathogens that carry them – viruses, bacteria,...
Canada and Ontario investing $1.5 million to support biosecurity measures to reduce the spread of avian influenza
The governments of Canada and Ontario are investing...