Controlled herd restoration, ensuring safe livestock farming

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | 07:31:01

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After the Lunar New Year, many farms and livestock households in the province have promoted controlled herd restoration, paying attention to disease prevention and control, ensuring supply to meet market demand.

Livestock farm of Mr. Le Van Tinh, Bach Thuan commune (Vu Thu).

Bach Thuan Commune (Vu Thu) is a locality with a tradition of raising pigs, with a total herd of 15,000 pigs. As one of the large-scale farms in the locality, recently, to serve the needs of people during the Lunar New Year, Mr. Le Van Tinh's family farm sold 400 pigs to the market. Immediately after selling the pigs, his family cleaned the barn system, sprayed disinfectant and applied lime powder to disinfect.

Mr. Tinh said: Herd restoration is usually concentrated in the period from January to March every year, this is the time of changing seasons, so to safely restore the herd, it is necessary to strengthen disease prevention and control. Regarding breeding stock, my family maintains the parent herd to ensure quality breeding stock. After Tet, my family restored the herd with a scale of 300 pigs, and the herd is currently developing well.

With a regular farming scale of 4,000 chickens, Mr. Vu Van Phuoc's family in Duyen Hai commune (Hung Ha) has now re-raised the flock to more than 1,500 chickens. According to Mr. Phuoc, to raise chickens safely and effectively, after selling the Tet chicken batch, the family leaves the coop empty for a week to clean the coop. For breeding chickens, the family imports them from reputable companies and farms and they are fully vaccinated.

Mr. Pham Thanh Nhuong, Head of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, said: To ensure the safety of livestock herd restoration, the Department has directed livestock and veterinary stations in districts and cities to strengthen disease surveillance, proactively propagate to livestock households to vaccinate livestock herds, and apply biosafety measures in livestock farming. In particular, livestock households need to prepare clean, disinfected and sterilized barns before importing livestock, and barns must be suitable for each type of livestock. In addition, specialized agencies focus on propaganda and technical training for livestock herd restoration to ensure disease safety. Focus on developing livestock farming in the direction of biosafety, introducing specialty breeds of high economic value.

According to the professional agency, when re-herding, it is necessary to pay attention to the quality of the breed, maintain the parent breed to ensure the source of quality breeds, clear origin. When importing breeds from outside, it is necessary to find reputable facilities. After purchasing the breeds, it is necessary to proactively vaccinate all types of disease prevention vaccines and apply biosafety farming processes to limit epidemics. During the breeding process, in the first days, it is necessary to regularly monitor and supervise the health of the livestock to proactively take measures to prevent and treat diseases. For breeders, re-herding after Tet is an important step to maintain the scale of breeding, stabilize production and ensure supply, meeting market demand. However, the weather is currently very cold, so breeders need to be careful in re-herding to prevent and control epidemics and protect the health of the livestock. In addition, localities need to strengthen state management of breeding production and trading establishments, and increase local breeding production capacity to have breeding animals at suitable prices during the production process.