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Catastrophic Mortality

Learn essential procedures & emergency contacts for handling catastrophic livestock mortality due to natural disasters & diseases. Planning for the impossible with effective management methods. Disaster plans, personnel safety, & disposal techniques covered.

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Catastrophic Mortality

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  1. Catastrophic Mortality Reference: CNMP Core Curriculum Section 3.3 — Farmstead Safety and Security

  2. Catastrophic Mortality • Procedures • Emergency Numbers • Emergency Contacts

  3. Planning for the Impossible... • Natural disasters can happen • Flooding (IA, 1993 & NC, 2000) • Snow (Blizzard of 1993) • millions of broilers and chicks lost to building collapse and loss of power for heating • Whole herds may be destroyed • contagious diseases (FMD, TB, BSE) • swine viruses and human flu viruses

  4. Planning for the “impossible” Hurricane Floyd 1999 SE North Carolina

  5. PreventionResponding to tragedy

  6. PreventionResponding to tragedy

  7. Who’s in Charge? State Level • State Veterinarian Federal Level • Pathogenic Outbreak • APHIS • Natural Disaster (or mechanical failure) • ?? NRCS

  8. Disaster Plans Affect Numberof Animals Needing Disposal

  9. Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE) • Biosecurity • Some foreign animal diseases are infectious to humans

  10. Management Methods • On-site burial • Composting • Incineration • Landfill • Rendering • Value-Added Processing

  11. Burial • LOCATION? • Soil type • Large area • Disease • Ground Water Quality • Land Value?

  12. Composting • Carbonaceous Material Availability • Perception • Time Ag -Bag

  13. In-House Composting

  14. Large Animal Composting

  15. Incineration • Cremation is a controlled and rapid oxidation of organic matter • this is not coal-oil, old tires and a lit cigarette • greatest utility is for small animals

  16. Commercial Incinerators • Complete reduction of volume • Destroys pathogens • Oxidizes volatile gases (odors) • Expensive • initial cost and energy cost • Air permit issues • incinerators with greater than 400,000 btu/hr capacity require air quality permit

  17. Air-Curtain Incinerators Large quantities

  18. Landfill • Refusal • Transportation Biosecurity • Logistics • Bird Control

  19. Rendering • Availability • Capacity • Transportation Biosecurity

  20. Pryolysis & Gasification • Capacity • Availability • High Cost

  21. Sterilization

  22. CAM PLANNING

  23. Web Soil Survey

  24. CAM PLANNING

  25. CATASTROPHIC MORTALITY Resources • NEH 637, Chp 2, Composting; & NEH 651, AWMFH; • CPS 316 Animal Mortality Facility; & CPS 317 Composting Facility • CAM SharePoint - https://nrcs.sc.egov.usda.gov/st/CNTSC/engineering/enveng/cam/default.aspx • CAST - http://www.cast-science.org/publicationsByDepartment.asp?idDepartment=1&idSubDepartment=2 • APHIS - http://www.aphis.usda.gov/emergency_response/contacts/contacts_state.shtml • AVMA - http://www.avma.org/disaster/state_resources/default.asp • EDEN - http://eden.lsu.edu//default.aspx • LPELC - http://www.extension.org/pages/Managing_Livestock_and_Poultry_Mortalities

  26. http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/662

  27. CATASTROPHIC MORTALITY Questions or Comments?

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