Biosecurity is a practice designed to prevent the spread of disease onto your farm. Biosecurity is the cheapest, most effective means of disease control available. No disease prevention program will work without it. A fence keeps your birds in, but it also keeps other animals out.
Isolation also applies to the practice of separating birds by age group.
Traffic Control includes both the traffic onto your farm and the traffic patterns within the farm. Sanitation addresses the disinfection of materials, people and equipment entering the farm and the cleanliness of the personnel on the farm. Properly managing these two factors should be a top priority on your farm. In order to assess how much biosecurity is practical for your farm, look at these three factors. Economics Common Sense Relative Risk New birds represent a great risk to biosecurity because their disease status is unknown.