• Contact your board staff person;
• Phone the 24-hour emergency hotline (for broiler producers):
  1-877-SOS-BYRD (767-2973);
• Discuss the situation with family members and staff;
• Enhance all biosecurity measures:
• Ensure that a visitor log is in place;
• Block entranceway to CAZ to prevent unwanted traffic or access;
• Minimize visits to other poultry sites and avoid exchanging equipment with other poultry sites;
• Clean and disinfect vehicles and equipment that access the affected site;
• Inside the affected barn, all personnel with contact to poultry should wear boots, protective suits, head coverings, N95 mask, gloves and disinfect hands; and
• Consider packing the above supplies together as emergency packs.

If a federally reportable disease is detected on your farming operation, CFIA personnel will come on site. They will implement a quarantine zone around the property and conduct a premises investigation. At the initial visit, they will work through a lengthy questionnaire with you requesting:

Step 1 is to notify your provincial board office and other industry personnel that a disease is suspected or confirmed.