Rats and mice can be a
major economic threat around swine facilities. They consume and contaminate
feed, and they have been implicated in maintaining or spreading diseases. House
mice and Norway rats are considered the most troublesome and economically
important. They thrive in and around farms and rural homes, and sometimes
inhabit open fields and crops.
Rats will undermine
building foundations and concrete slabs. Mice are particularly destructive to
building insulation. Most common types of insulation, including rigid foam and
fiberglass batts, are susceptible to rodent damage. A rodent infestation can
cause thousands of dollars in damage in a matter of months. Additionally,
rodents frequently gnaw on electrical wiring, causing equipment malfunctions,
power outages, and fires as a result of short circuits. Rat and mice
populations decrease during colder weather, but you may see the pests more
often because they tend to move indoors to find warmer nesting sites.
Rodents and Swine Diseases
Rodents and other wildlife can play an
important role in the transmission of swine diseases, although the occurrence
of such diseases in rodents and their contribution to disease problems on hog
farms is not well documented. Swine diseases that rats and mice may harbor or
disseminate include bordetellosis, leptospirosis, pseudorabies, salmonellosis,
swine dysentery, erysipelas, and toxoplasmosis. Rodents can spread or
accelerate the spread of diseases from contaminated areas to uncontaminated
areas via their droppings, feet, fur, urine, saliva, or blood. As an example,
rats may travel through infected feces of sick pigs and then contaminate feed
or water several hundred feet away. Rodents, if eaten by swine, also can
directly transmit diseases. When rodents live around farm buildings, they are a
food source that can attract predators such as foxes, raccoons, skunks, or
stray dogs and cats, and these, in turn, may contribute to disease problems. An
effective disease barrier system cannot be achieved or maintained without good
rodent control.
For effective control,
an integrated pest management (IPM) approach that incorporates the timely use
of a variety of cost-effective control methods is recommended. These include:
(1) sanitation, (2) rodent-proof construction, and (3) Fumigation
To clean Your environment to prevent Diseases caused by Rodent or Fumigation contact us:
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