Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Veterinary Hygiene and Management

This study aimed to evaluate the cleaning and disinfection programmes in small scale of poultry production houses. Every procedure in cleaning and disinfection has a role to achieve the standard optimization for disinfection process. Local disinfectants Egyptian should be evaluated periodically for the efficiency and validity of active material. The use of Foam technique and the addition of chlorine to surfactant in cleaning process produced an excellent result. Biofilm is a problem in poultry farm which could be developed in water pipes and the cages of the birds. Plankton could be developed on the water pipes by the water which has a high microbial load. Disinfection process must be done periodically to remove the biofilm and the plankton by Clorox 2.5% or Calcium hypochlorite 1%. Also, this study aimed to replace liquid foot pan in the poultry farm, with a novel model using dry disinfectants as Calcium hypochlorite, Staldren, Halamid, Paraformaldehyde and Virkon S that is used more effectively in biosecurity program convenient with the workers in Egyptian farms that avoid the ordinary foot pan

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