The flock is quarantined. Stress is reduced. Parasites are controlled. Sick birds are recognised and treated. Birds are protected by vaccination.
Health management involves an integrated program of precautions, procedures and treatments.
The aim is to prevent disease occurring in the flock and to reduce the physical and financial loss should disease break out. Preventing its spread if it does get in. The two most important factors in achieving these aims are isolation and cleanliness. These go hand in hand and it would be foolish to practice one and not the other. Diseases and their causes Disease can be broadly defined as a change in body function which disturbs the body's proper operation.