Your Livestock Biosecurity "Quick" Checklist

Visitors

• Control traffic on and off the farm
• Post prominent signage to restrict access and provide directions to the farm office, using words appropriate to your location and operation
• Discourage unnecessary visitors
• all visitors must be accompanied, and prohibited or limited from accessing structures or pens containing animals, medications or feed
• Keep a ‘visitor log’
• all visitors, service calls and deliveries – no exceptions
• date, name, business, contact information, next farm visit, previous farm visit. See www.animalhealth.ca
• Ask visitors to arrive in clean clothes, footwear and vehicles
• on arrival, instruct visitors of your sanitation practices
• provide clean clothes and footwear if necessary
• Discuss visitors from other countries with your veterinarian or the CFIA to assess the risk and determine appropriate measures

Livestock

• Purchase healthy livestock from reputable suppliers following good management practices and a recognized on-farm food safety program
• Isolate purchased livestock for 2 or more weeks
• Purchase quality feed and colostrum from suppliers that follow good manufacturing practices
• Separate sick from healthy animals
• Deadstock should be disposed of according to municipal and provincial regulations. Carcasses should be disposed of in a timely manner and assumed contagious
• Manure should be handled according to municipal and provincial regulations, including measures for collecting, storing, moving and disposing of manure in ways that minimize the chance of spreading disease

Sanitation

• Keep clean all personnel, buildings, yards, equipment, instruments, feed storage areas and feed equipment
• Disinfection
• choose the right product for the job
• clean items with warm water and detergent before disinfection
• Use disposable equipment once and discard
• Wildlife & Pests
• Control or eliminate vermin
• Protect your feed and water supplies from fecal contamination by wildlife