Who has a biosecurity testing protocal???

[onthespot]

Oh, that is totally different than what I pictured. Makes sense and sorry for assuming something entirely different and at odds with your first part of your post. How do you keep your birds with no access to the outside? No flies, mosquitoes, no sparrows ever get to visit? Dude, I want a setup like THAT!

 

[ArizonaNessa]

It's quite alright. It's the one thing I hate about the internet is that everyone reads things different. We don't have a mosquito issue here and flies are pretty much seasonal as long as everything is clean. As for wild birds, oh we have plenty sparrows, doves, pigeons, cactus wrens and all the rest but no they can't enter my set up. The bird aviary is the length of my property with dividers in it. There are three buildings in total with a paver sidewalk that runs down between them. If I don't let it in then it don't get in. If your talking about insects like crickets and such well I guess if you wanted to keep them from that you would have to keep them completely inside with cement floors with no exposure to the elements. I am just not willing to go quite that far. Heck it's only about 500 birds during the busy part of the season.

 

[longranger]

Arizonanessa your practices sound exemplary. Wish I had the time dedication and resources to do the same. Would buy from you with complete confidence.

I am not in any way an expert on avian infectious disease or management of infections so no specific reccomendations. Just trying to stir up constructive conversation so I can learn.

 

[shandiane78]

I am very interested in this subject and would love to find out where and how to get my flock tested, and what I should be testing for. I would particularly like to know if they carry MG, as I suspect...

When I got my pullets I was COMPLETELY clueless about the importance of biosecurity. So, my flock is made up of started pullets from three different local flocks. I've had them about a month and a half, and we have already gone through an upper respiratory infection, which I treated with antibiotics (Tylan). Now it appears to be creeping back...

Out of seven birds, I have one with a swollen face, and two sneezing.