The quarantine process

[frankykeno]

Lol Im not depending on luck, I see some holes in my QT system now and when the new arrivals come I will pay a little more attention to them.

Unfortunatly I live in a small appartment for the time being, and all I can do is have them one room away... That is uncontrolable but I will be thinking of this sort of thing when we are buying a house in a year!!

Hey it's not like any one of us in a normal home situation can create some sort of level 5 biohazard containment field LOL. At least you are trying by keeping them in completely seperate rooms. If this thread helps you see some issues to address and tweak your QT to make it even more effective, hey we did good!

You'd be surprised how many people either don't quarantine at all and think seperate tubs in the same rack means disease can't spread from a new, incoming animal to one that's been there for years.

[snakelady]

This is a great thread!

I do most of the good practices mentioned in the earlier threads. 3 months qt. Wash, change clothes, don't share food or tongs, etc.
My regular snake room is in my lower level and my QT is on the upper level of my house. Of course the air does circulate through the whole house but I can't build a separate building like I'd like to...some day maybe.

I wasn't sure what to do about new arrivals if my QT section was already occupied. Now I've got some ideas. Thanks guys!

[FloridaHogs]

Same as most of the things mentioned. I use two different rooms for quar. (my kids rooms). The kids do not handle the animals unless mom is around, and they do not handle the qt animals at all. That is as far away as I can get the qt animals from the main collection (my office/dining room). I do a 3 dose round of panacur for newbies, so once that is over, and they are clean and feeding, then they come out of QT. I do not care for PAM because Hoggies are sensitive to it, so newbies get a nice mineral oil rub down. Only had mites come in once, and the min. oil took care of them right quick.

As for cleaning my water dishes and tubs.....all but my 41 qt tubs fit in my dishwasher, which has a wonderful sanitary cycle. (no I do not wash human dishes with the snakey ones) I have twice as many water dishes as I do tubs, so it is an easy exchange one a week. Take out dirty, put in clean, wash dirty for the next week. Easy breezy! I am thinking about doing the same with my tubs. Have extras, so that on cleaning day I can just swap clean for dirty. I think it would make cleaning day go faster.

[Drew87]

GREAT THREAD!!! I say sticky it.