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AI•Mar Feed Centre
Exeter
1-888-644-2844/235-1919
Bluewater Feed Company Ltd.
Tara Desboro
934-3122 794-2327
Milton J. Dietz Ltd.
Seaforth
522-0608
Howson & Howson Ltd.
Blyth
1-800-663-3653/523-9624
Listowel Farm Supply
Listowel
291-2501
Milverton Farm Supplies Inc.
Milverton
595-2048
McPhail's Feed Services
St. Marys
1-800-774-9758/284-4000
Springbank Farm Supply
R.R. 3, Walkerton
881-4492
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that had disease and he left frozen
viral material that, when you walk it
into your barn, you can end up with a
serious disease outbreak like PRRS
or TGE.
Evidence of the staying power
of viruses was shown by Dr.
Scott Dees of the University of
Minnesota with his "snowball from
hell". Dees injected a virus into a
snowball which he put on the
underside of a wheel well. Later,
when he retrieved the snowball it still
had active virus. If that virus -laden
snow fell off a vehicle and was
tracked into the entranceway of your
barn, even if you changed your boots
it's in your barn. If, for instance, you
set down a box in the entranceway it
could absorb the moisture and the
virus and then you could carry
disease into the barn.
It's important to look with fresh
eyes on all the activities you do in
day-to-day operations and see where
you put yourself at risk. If you allow
the deadstock truck to come right
into your yard, for instance, it is, or
It's important to look
with fresh eyes at your
day-to-day operations
has been, carrying the carcasses of
diseased animals, bringing that
disease right up to your barn door.
What do you know about the
health protocols of the company from
which you buy breeding stock? You
may always buy from the same
company but what if they have 10
different barns? If you're more
careful about biosecurity than they
are, you could be buying disease into
your barn.
"It's fair to ask the question
because it's your livelihood at stake,"
Templeton says. It's ultimately the
responsibility of the animal owner to
conduct an audit of his own
operation."
Biosecurity risks vary according
to your type of operations,
Templeton says. "If you have a
farrow -to -finish operation where all
the animals are there all the time, you
have to be extremely vigilant, but if
you run a finishing barn where you
get all your pigs in, in week one, and
at the end of 16 or 17 weeks the barn