2014
DOI: 10.1111/jsap.12254
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Backyard poultry: legislation, zoonoses and disease prevention

Abstract: In law, backyard poultry are “food‐producing animals” and “farmed animals” and are subject to regulations regarding welfare, prescribing, banned procedures, disposal of carcases, feeding bans, notifiable diseases and disease surveillance in addition to those applying to most other pets. Many owners and some veterinary surgeons are unclear about the requirements of these regulations. Backyard poultry are also associated with some different zoonotic disease risks to mammalian pets. Because a high proportion of p… Show more

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“…Previously, high resistance levels were also found in Campylobacter strains isolated from chicken livers disposed for human consumption in this same region (Simaluiza et al 2015). However we could not obtain information from the owners about the use of antibiotics, we believe that as occurs in other places of the developing world, this probably reflects an overuse of these antibiotics in backyard chickens in this region, something that could represent an epidemiological problem with implications for treatment in human beings (WHO 2013, Whitehead andRoberts 2014). This is particularly important in backyard chickens because i) exposure of children to infected backyard poultry may represent another route of transmission for Campylobacter infection (Anderson et al 2012, Whitehead and Roberts 2014, El-Tras et al 2015, on which there are not sufficient epidemiological studies and ii) there is a lack of good biosecurity and good management practices applicable to reduce the risk of infection and antimicrobial resistance levels in backyard chickens (Whitehead andRoberts 2014, El-Tras et al 2015).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Previously, high resistance levels were also found in Campylobacter strains isolated from chicken livers disposed for human consumption in this same region (Simaluiza et al 2015). However we could not obtain information from the owners about the use of antibiotics, we believe that as occurs in other places of the developing world, this probably reflects an overuse of these antibiotics in backyard chickens in this region, something that could represent an epidemiological problem with implications for treatment in human beings (WHO 2013, Whitehead andRoberts 2014). This is particularly important in backyard chickens because i) exposure of children to infected backyard poultry may represent another route of transmission for Campylobacter infection (Anderson et al 2012, Whitehead and Roberts 2014, El-Tras et al 2015, on which there are not sufficient epidemiological studies and ii) there is a lack of good biosecurity and good management practices applicable to reduce the risk of infection and antimicrobial resistance levels in backyard chickens (Whitehead andRoberts 2014, El-Tras et al 2015).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the European Union, countries feeding kitchen scraps (except raw vegetables from the garden) to the food-producing animals, including chickens kept as pets, is banned since 2001 to prevent the transmission of zoonotic infections. Access of poultry to the compost mass containing kitchen waste is also restricted (Whitehead and Roberts, 2014).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…These regulations divide medicinal substances into three categories: allowed, prohibited, and unlisted. Use of prohibited/unlisted medicines in poultry (commercial and backyard) is illegal (Table 14.1) (Whitehead and Roberts, 2014).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Whitehead et al . () illustrate this very well and it is clear that the small animal practitioner dealing with food‐producing animals requires a different approach, even if food production is not the primary purpose of keeping! The large increase in backyard poultry is more in keeping with poultry keeping pre‐intensive farming of these species when many households kept a small flock.…”
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