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Sanitation & Disinfection
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Undergraduate 3
09/19/2013

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Main steps for sanitation and disease control
Definition
  • Clean feed
  • Changes in feed
  • Clean water
  • Clean living quarters
  • Good grooming practices
  • Quarentine new animals and sick animals
  • Waste management
  • Pasture rotation
  • Carcass disposal
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Part of disease prevention
Definition
  • Nutrition
  • Immunization
  • Parasite Control
  • Minimize Stress
  • Sanitation
  • Hygiene
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Challanges VS Resistance
Definition

When your challange exceeds your resistence you get sick therefor we try to hike up the animals resistance to beat the challange. Challanges are coming from the enviornment. We want high resistance and low challenge

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Crowded Condtions
Definition

Defecation on top of each other. Spreading pathogens. More chance for fecal contamination; Microogranisms, parasites, contaminates feeding area

 

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Disease transmission
Definition
Passing illness around & those housed VS outside have a better chance of staying healthy
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FOOD
Definition
  • Contaminents
  • Clean area/Bowl
  • Pasture Rotation
  • Water

 

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Contaminants
Definition
  • Pesticides: Put in food to keep insects out
  • Insects
  • Mold & Bacteria
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Clean feeding area and Bowls
Definition
Avoid plastics. A rash around lips can mean the animal may be allergic to plastic
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Pasture Rotation
Definition
Change out animals between different pastures to let fecal matter die off with the pathogens that could be in them.
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Water
Definition
  • Pure/Clean water
  • Clean container
  • Temperature of water; Warm water can grow microbes & Cold water affects rumen microbes
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Quarentine
Definition
30 days of being seperated from everything else and being observed to see if any diseases occur
Term
Carcass Disposal
Definition
  • Go to rendering plant
  • Could have died from a disease or a body can change and become dangerous to other animals
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Disinfectant
Definition
  • Too free from pathogenic organisms or to rendur the inhurt
  • Usually applied to inanimate onjects (Nonliving things)
  • Nonselective : Targets bacteria, fungi, parasites & viruses
  • Renders the agent harmless, often killing it
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Antiseptic
Definition
  • Usually applies to living tissues
  • Inhibits microbrobrial growth preventing infection
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Sterilization
Definition
  • Everything is dead
  • Distruction of all microorganisms
  • For harsh physical enviorments: EXAMPLE = Autoclave
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