Farmers improve biosecurity since horse flu scare: survey
A new survey shows livestock producers have followed the lead of horse owners and improved their biosecurity procedures since the outbreak of equine influenza (EI).The latest research from Animal Health Australia (AHA) shows 72 per cent of farmers felt better informed about animal disease since the outbreak of equine influenza.
The survey found almost 50 per cent of horse owners have completely reviewed their biosecurity procedures to better protect their properties in the future.
The AHA surveyed more than 300 livestock producers.
AHA disease risk mitigation manager Duncan Rowland says horse flu has made many livestock producers think carefully about their own situation.
"Saying 'well, how is this going to affect me and what happens if Australia suddenly gets foot in mouth disease or some other emergency animal disease, and what's the affect on me and what do I need to'," he said.
"Which has been fantastic because it's actually focused the attention of these producers on biosecurity."
But Mr Rowland says more than 40 per cent of farmers are still unsure about the procedures they implemented.
"It's a confidence issue," he said.
"Horse owners have implemented a range of procedures, but because this is the first time that Australia has experienced EI and because it's been so contagious they're just uncertain."
posted by Horse Deals at
12:25 pm
1 Comments:
are u serious?
biosecure all u like. if theres another outbreak unless the nearest horse is over 10 k away just the wind is going to do the job for goodness sake.
only the implementation of vaccination buffers stopped this nighmare
although i suppose we can argue that lax biosecurity let it out of eastern creek there is still the irrufutable fact that the wind still infected every agistment horse around eastern creek despite lockdown and the sudden inplementation of biosecurity
i pray the necessary amount of vaccine is already on hand for buffer zone administration of hoof and mouth vaccine if there is a case.
lockdown alone is just as useless on its own without vaccination buffers for fmd too.
its even stated in the draft protocol for fmd although was in the draft for ei as well n that was not only ignored this time round. how many remember the dpi telling us for days that vacciation was not the way the stop ei.
lockdown would do it.
they did so many about faces doubt they knew which way was north any more before
hallaleugah
they found the light and buffer zones were the way to go.
well after the racing industry was protected. new paragraph in the draft report we must have missed noticing.
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