LFP 211: Livestock Farm Practice (0+1)

QUARANTINE

• Quarantine is the segregation of apparently healthy animals (especially animals being brought into the herd for the first time), which have been exposed to the risk of infection from those animals, which are healthy and unexposed to the risk of infection. The idea is to give sufficient time for any contagious disease that the quarantine animals may be having, to become active and obvious. Hence, the quarantined period depends on the incubation period of a disease. But in practice a quarantine period of 30 days covers almost all diseases.
• For rabies, the quarantine period should be about six months. During the quarantine period, animals should be thoroughly screened for parasitic infestation by faecal examination and de-worming carried out on the 23^rd/24^th day, if need be. The animals should also be subjected to dipping or spraying on the 25^th/26^th day for removing ectoparasites if any.