An adequate disease prevention program is essential to a profitable commercial poultry operation.
Chronic diseases can reduce efficiency and increase costs.
Although a disease prevention program may not show immediate returns on the investment, it will be profitable in the long term. Sources of disease Humans , whether as visitors, neighbors or farm workers, can be a major source of disease transmission. Carriers can include employees who work on several poultry farms and equipment that moves between farms. Poultry brought to the farm can carry infectious diseases. Wild birds may carry and transmit diseases to commercial poultry flocks.