Overview and recommendations for the Biosecurity of water for poultry

Numerous publications, trials and field observations clearly identify drinking water as a biosecurity risk for poultry. For EADs such as AI, surface water that has been contaminated by waterfowl provides one of the highest risks. For the Australian poultry industry to reduce the likelihood of an outbreak of AI in a commercial poultry flock, it is essential that effective sanitation of surface water is undertaken where such water is used for drinking or cooling purposes.

Because effective water sanitation is so important, the industry needs education programs that cover the use of water sanitisers and application systems, and promote the use of sanitation that is:

• reliable and effective
  
  
• economical both in capital set-up and cost of sanitiser
  
  
• easy to use
  
  
• has readily available technical support.
  

 

 

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