Biosecurity awareness helps prevent diseases, ensures safer livestock practices, and increases farm productivity.
Learn MoreBiosecurity means protecting animals from diseases by controlling hygiene, movement, and environment. It is the most important set of management practices to keep your farm safe.
Symptoms: Blisters on feet and mouth, high fever, shivering.
Spread: Contact with infected animals or contaminated tools.
Prevention: Strict entry control and biannual vaccination.
Symptoms: Late-term abortion, infertility, reduced milk yield.
Spread: Ingesting contaminated feed or birth fluids.
Prevention: Clean birthing areas and testing new arrivals.
Symptoms: Swollen, hard udders, clots or blood in milk.
Spread: Poor milking hygiene and bacteria in sheds.
Prevention: Daily cleaning of sheds and proper teat dipping.
Symptoms: Skin lesions, high fever, difficulty breathing.
Spread: Airborne transmission or shared equipment.
Prevention: Instant isolation of sick goats and vaccinations.
Vaccination is the most effective layer of biosecurity. It builds immunity and prevents mass mortality in herds.
1. Register animal birth with the Vet.
2. Follow the local District Vaccination Calendar.
3. Log every dose in the Record Center.
Open a short step-by-step guide for shed cleaning, disinfecting, drying, and tool hygiene.
Open Cleaning Guide
Open a quick checklist to spot appetite loss, breathing issues, fever, lameness, and isolation behavior early.
Open Symptom GuideSeparate any sick or unusual animal immediately to reduce spread inside the shed, pen, or grazing group.
Do not share feeders, tools, water points, transport equipment, or handling gear until cleaning is complete.
Note the symptoms, affected count, location, and timing so the issue can be reported correctly and reviewed faster.
Use the farmer reporting flow or contact page quickly instead of waiting for symptoms to get worse across the farm.
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