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Unit 4: Manage poultry health and welfare - Coggle Diagram
Unit 4: Manage poultry health and welfare
Maintain poultry biosecurity
Identify, gather and donn Personal Protection Equipment and Apparel
Construct and install
biosecurity structures and equipment
• Boundary fence ( electric or stone wall)
• Gate
• Entry showers, both at the gate and at the house sites
• Foot bathes and vehicle sprayers
• Hand washing gadgets
• Post mortem rooms
• Mortality disposal pits
• Rodent and pest control traps
Determine
biosecurity measures
• Color coded clothing for different parts of the farm e.g. feed stores, egg sorting and flock houses
• Human traffic restriction
• Showering
• Rodent and pest control traps
• Personal protective equipment
Manage poultry vaccination
Reconstitute poultry vaccine
Administer poultry vaccine
Observe vaccinated poultry to ascertain vaccine intake and check for abnormal reactions
Record
vaccination details
• Type of vaccine
• Type of disease vaccinated against
• Age of poultry
• Date and time of vaccination
• Date of manufacture and expiry of vaccine
• Vaccine source and batch number
• Number of birds vaccinated
• Identification of birds (flock, type, breed)
Do vaccination
preparations
(before,during and after vaccination)
• Provision of anti-stress nutritional premixes
• Feed and water withdrawal
• Confirmation of bird numbers to determine dosage
• Provision of disinfectant free water
• Positioning vaccine receptacles in the poultry house for oral vaccines
• Confine and restrain poultry for injectable and ocular-nasal vaccines
Control poultry parasites
Observe poultry flock performance, behavior and droppings
De-worm poultry flock to control internal parasites
Control external parasites
Manage poultry diseases and vices
Isolate poultry showing signs of disease
Contact poultry farm supervisor or qualified veterinary professional for diagnosis and treatment of sick birds.
Monitor poultry for vices
Control poultry vices