You have to shower before going into a barn?
It may be hard to believe but farmers might ask you to take a shower or wear overalls and plastic boots over your shoes before entering.
In her blog post on the www.dinnerstartshere.ca website, pig farmer Kendra Leslie explains why:
When you walk into a hospital, the first thing you do is wipe your hands down with hand sanitizer, right? Well, essentially, that’s biosecurity.
The reason you use hand sanitizer when you go into a hospital, is so you don’t bring in new bugs into the hospital. As pig farmers, we take the same sort of steps to insure that our pigs stay healthy and no new bugs or illnesses are brought into the barn.
A shower in a Canadian pig barn
Most pig farms require that you shower in before entering the barn. By removing all outside clothing, showering and putting on clothes that do not leave the barn, means that the chance that new bugs or diseases will enter the barn is low. It’s very important that anyone entering the barn shower and change into barn clothes, whether they have been around pigs before or not.
To view the whole blog visit
www.dinnerstartshere.ca/blog/entry/you-have-to-shower-before-going-into-the-barn
Posted by Farm and Food Care on August 19th, 2013 :: Filed under Animal care,Biosecurity,Housing,Pigs,Uncategorized
Tags :: animal care, Biosecurity, Housing, pigs
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