Proper biosecurity practices are essential in poultry operations. Clean and disease free facilities are paramount to maintaining flock health, increasing production, increasing feed conversion ratios, and decreasing morbidity to ensure that birds will make it market in a healthy condition. One of the most common pathways for infection is a barn being exposed to materials or traffic containing a pathogen, through materials introduced or human/wildlife visitation. In Nepal, there is miscommunication between commercial/industrial farms and the government in regards to disease recording. This makes disease management practices difficult to establish because inept information is being used to establish practices. Most disease recording is conducted on backyard and smaller commercial farms and this creates a greater risk for the smaller farms as the government is unaware of what disease are prevalent (Sharma B, 2010). Since backyard farms are common, birds are often kept in proximity of human dwellings. Improper biosecurity management in these farms creates a risk to the human population as many zoonotic diseases are transmissible between humans and poultry (Sharma B, 2010). Especially disease such Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Considering a widespread outbreak of HPAI in 2009, the Nepali government has begun to enforce more efficient biosecurity management. Three important factors in biosecurity management in poultry are isolation, traffic control and sanitation (Neupane et al. 2012).
Thymox Ag Disinfectant is a hard surface disinfectant developed by Laboratoire M2, situated in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It is composed of natural active ingredients, with the molecule Thymol being the active component (Laboratoire M2). Thymol is derived from thyme oil. It is a broad-spectrum disinfectant and it is known to be effective against, bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including; Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella cholera etuis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Influenza A and others.