Department of Animal Production

Rajasthan College of agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur

Guidelines for Livestock and Poultry Farmers during

Lockdown Period due to COVID-19
Livestock and allied activities exempted from lockdown:
 Veterinary hospitals.
 Animal feeds and fodder, medicine and treatment related services are exempted
from restrictions during lockdown period.

General precautions and safety measures during management of

animals and marketing of produce:
 In case of manual harvesting of green fodder, accomplish the operation in 4-5feet
spaced strips assigning one strip to one person.This will ensure adequate spacing
between the engaged labour.
 All the livestock workers engaged should use masks and ensure hand washing
with shop at reasonable intervals. 
 Maintain safe distance of 3-4 feet during handling of animals, feeding,
milking,sale of inputs. 
 Stagger the dairy and poultry operations wherever possible and avoid engaging
more number of persons on the same day. 
 Engage only the healthy livestock workers to the extent possible and after
reasonable enquiry as to avoid the entry of any suspect or likely carrier at the
farm. 
 All machines and utensils should be sanitized at regular intervals. All transport
vehicles, gunny bags etc. should also be sanitized. 
 During sale of milk, social distance should be maintained and measures should be
taken to avoid crowding. 
 Wash hand with soap and water repeatedly.
 Drink plenty of water during farm operations. 
 Clothes must be washed after completing dairy and poultry farm operations. 
 Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth frequently to avoid contamination.
 Follow the standard safety measures during the visit to market for the purchase of
inputs.
 Make proper arrangements for housing, nutrition and health management for
young animals during summer time.
 Farmers are advised to clean the house of animals and poultry birds regularly
with 1% sodium hypochlorite or phenolic disinfectants to prevent infection.
 Livestock farmers are suggested for regular supplementation of mineral mixture
to adult, lactating and pregnant cows @ 50-100 gm/day/cow to maintain
productivity.
 The animals should be offered with common salt.
 Animal should be dewormed with broad spectrum anthelmentic.
 Dairy farmers are suggested to convert their evening collection of milk to Paneer,
Butter or Ghee making for better price realization or faced with any difficulty in
storage or marketing. 
 The livestock are needed to be fed edible tree fodders as well as straw and
concentrate regularly to sustain the milk productivity. 
 The litter materials in poultry shed need to be changed to prevent coccidiosis
infestation. If red diarrhea symptoms are noticed in the birds, immediately
administer anticoccidial drugs in the drinking water for 3 -5 days.
 Poultry birds may be fed with green leaves of onion along with grinded maize/
rice. Safety measures in handling to be followed.
 Maintenance of proper hygiene in livestock and poultry houses is essential.