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As we in Canada are faced with a deadly Avion Influenza (AI) in all sectors of the poultry industry I am reminded of the time when I faced a very similar situation where we were hit with AI back in 2014/2015 in Belize where we had a layer and broiler farm. I thought I should perhaps put this on paper as many of you are wondering what will become of your farm. Disclaimer Can we claim that our water treatment saved our farm? Absolutely not; this was not a clinical trial. However, we feel it helped. In December of 2014 when a routine test was done on a broiler breeder farm less than 1/2 of a mile from our farm, they discovered they had detected a virus. As this was the first time that the poultry industry in Belize had been confronted with this, it took a while for them to isolate the virus. So, in Jan of 2015 it was confirmed that...

I grew up on a farm in Belize where we had a cow calf to finish ranch, a few dairy cows, farmed corn and beans, and broiler breeder laying hens. Much of my time was spent in the poultry barns. I remember how my dad would raise up beautiful pullet flocks but after they came into production many times they would crash in their health and production. This would happen over and over. We were on a water source coming from a river which we all thought was good water. We discovered most livestock did better on the river water than what they did on pond/dugout water. I entered the corporate world managing a hardware store for my uncle for about 10 years and after that we, as a family, started our own small business and soon after that we started our poultry farm. In 2011 we started with laying hens and then in 2012 we started with broilers. We had...