• Wash your hands before and after handling birds.
  
• Set aside rubber boots and clothing solely for entry into poultry areas. 
  
• Wear clean clothes when you enter the poultry area. Change and launder clothes after exiting the area. 
  
• Use disinfectant footbaths if visiting different ages or species within the flock.
  
  

Visitors

• Limit access to your birds.
• Do not permit people with other birds to come in contact with yours.
• Provide clean clothes and footwear for authorized or essential visitors (such as repairmen) if they come in contact with your birds. 
  
• Consider posting signs to inform others of biosecurity and disease prevention.
• Pave roads or line with gravel to prevent mud accumulation on tires which may carry disease.
• Clean vehicle tires before and after a visit every time a vehicle goes on site. 
• Photo credit of "No Admittance Biosecurity Area" image on the right: Dr. Jennifer Timmons 

Business

• Avoid sharing animals or equipment with other backyard flock owners.
  
• Decrease potential disease exposure by conducting business by telephone when possible. 
  
• Clean and disinfect your shoes and clothing after you visit bird exhibits, auctions, or other locations and before you go near your birds.
• Photo on the right was obtained from FEMA website and taken by John Ficara.