The "biological security" of pig farms is not just a signboard for "free entry for idle people" and shower equipment for entering and exit areas. While biosecurity includes these basic devices, it is fundamentally a philosophy. It is a way to learn to take care of pigs, focusing on the concept of maintaining and improving herd health and preventing new pathogens from entering. This is why I regard effective biosecurity as a concept.
In fact, various regulations and systems of pig farms are by-products of continuous training and strengthening. When pig farm employees are exposed to an epidemic and participate in controlling the epidemic. They will realize that difficulty! A difficult thing that requires more cost, time and energy! They will voluntarily abide by relevant biosafety regulations.
The author believes that although biosafety is to keep the epidemic outside the pig farm, there are many potential risk factors in actual production that may lead to the occurrence of the epidemic, among which the three main risk factors are transportation, personnel and pigs.
Transport
Every truck entering your pig farm may be a "Trojan horse" wrapped in certain epidemics, which may have an adverse impact on pig farming production! Do your employees know what to check? Are they authorized to stop a dirty truck from entering the pig farm? The author believes that this small decision is very important to blocking many epidemics caused by transportation. I don't want to see that because of the existence of a cigarette, your employees can easily become the target of "bribery".
When a truck enters a pig farm, no matter who drives it, it must be cleaned, disinfected and dried. Clarify the boundary between "clean zone" and "dirty zone". On one side of the pig installation platform is your pig farm, which you can and must control. I believe no one loves your pig farm more than you!
personnel
How can your employees always remember "biosafety"? Three steps: training, understanding and execution.
training: Provide biosafety training for everyone, no matter what job he is engaged in, no exception! Let them know what is allowed and what is not allowed. Because it is the responsibility of everyone in the pig farm to protect the pig farm from pathogens.
Understanding: Tell your employees why biosafety is important, so that your employees can deeply understand that biosafety is not only related to the health and welfare of pigs, but also affects the interests of employees themselves. It is understood that in the United States, the pig blue ear disease virus alone can cause losses to the pig farming industry to reach more than 600 million US dollars per year.
execution: Ensure everyone can follow biosafety regulations. For example, if you enter and exit the production area, you must insist on showering; you cannot bring personal belongings into the production area, etc. In the early stages of the implementation of the Biosafety Ordinance, a Biosafety Specialist can be set up. He/she is able to detect problems in a timely manner and help all employees increase their biosafety awareness. For those who are lucky and do not execute, corresponding punishment measures should be taken! In order to ensure that all staff at the venue strictly abide by the "biosafety" regulations.
pigs
pigs or semen enter the pig farm, even if the pig herds in the pig farm that supplies pigs and semen are in good health, you cannot relax your vigilance. Check, check, check again! Each step is carried out in accordance with the Biosafety Ordinance. For example, have the trucks been thoroughly disinfected before loading and unloading? You may not be able to control the external environment, but you can control all the people or things entering your pig farm.
puts biosecurity first: training, understanding and execution! Strict biosafety control is one of the prerequisites for the production of healthy pigs in your pig farm. Because biosecurity is a concept, just as your purpose of raising pigs is to make more money!
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