🐀 Rodents are more than just a nuisance: they pose a serious threat to poultry health, biosecurity, and farm profitability.
In this exclusive interview, Dr Edgar Oviedo, Professor and Extension Specialist at North Carolina State University, explains why effective rodent control is essential for sustainable poultry production.
🎙️ In this episode of Interview with Experts in Poultry, we discuss:
✔️ How rodents spread diseases and threaten public health
✔️ The impact of mice, brown rats, and black rats on poultry farms
✔️ Rodents and their role in avian influenza ecology
✔️ Antimicrobial resistance and emerging pathogens
✔️ Damage to poultry houses and farm infrastructure
✔️ Building an effective integrated rodent control program
✔️ First- and second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides
✔️ Best practices for monitoring feed storage, poultry houses, and farm perimeters
Learn how a proactive rodent management strategy can strengthen biosecurity, improve animal health, and protect poultry operations from costly losses.