Tires easily become fomites when they are driven through manure or puddles on infected facilities. Wash your car before leaving your facility or before driving onto another facility. Vehicles that have visited other facilities, such as salesmen's vehicles, rendering trucks, feed trucks, or even cattle transporters, should not be allowed on your facility until, at a minimum, its tires and wheels have been cleaned. If possible, install a washing station with a hose, brushes, and disinfectant near the entrance to your facility. Equipment may also become contaminated.
Some facilities use the same front loader to remove dead animals, remove manure, and deliver feed.
This inappropriate use of equipment may serve to spread disease amongst different production groups and ages of animals on the facility. Designate equipment for specific functions and sanitize anything that may come in contact with manure or animal secretions. Animal Bedding and Manure Animal bedding is contaminated by manure and animal secretions. Animal bedding should be regularly replaced. If it is placed on top of concrete or another solid surface, that surface should be scraped and then disinfected with a high-pressure hot water and a disinfectant.