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Animal Health Rules

Animal Health Requirements and Recommendations

Creature Health REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ANIMALS FOR EXHIBITION, INCLUDING COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION

This document provides the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture's (PDA) animal health requirements and recommendations for all animal exhibitions in the Republic including Pennsylvania County and Community Fairs. All exhibitors are encouraged to check with the management of each fair in advance to ensure compliance with all fair requirements. Each Fair and exhibition volition need to abide by the requirements sections for in state and out of state animals, and are strongly encouraged to adopt the recommendations based on their own perceived liability and take a chance for the exhibition and its audition.

Fair management is requested to maintain records and are asked to provide contact information of owners of all animals which are exhibited to PDA upon request. Please note, there are sales slips/records requirements, and documentation needed to movement with sheep and goats subsequently a sale.

It remains our goal to continue poultry exhibitions in 2022. Nosotros will continue to monitor reports of avian influenza cases that may occur in the U.s. that could put our poultry industry at hazard.

The post-obit Creature Owner or Flagman's Verification of Veterinary Consultation Relationship argument for the animals and poultry being exhibited must be included with a signature line for the owner or flagman on the fair registration grade: "I attest and affirm that a "veterinarian consultation relationship" – as that phrase is defined in the Beast Exhibition Sanitation Law found at 3 Pa.C.S.A. § 2501 et seq. and any amendments thereto – "exists with regard to any animals I will be exhibiting." Animals entering with a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) are exempt from this argument requirement.

Delight NOTE: There are ID requirements specific to the Farm Show circuitous: Cattle, swine, market sheep (in addition to other ID) and marketplace goats(in addition to other ID) must be identified with a 15 digit 840 iso compliant RFID ear tag. The simply exception to this will be for cattle who were identified using a 900 series xv-digit iso compliant tag placed before January i, 2015. No other exceptions will be granted. Delight distinguish betwixt 840 tags with RFID capabilities versus 840 tags that exercise not have those capabilities prior to placing identification in your animal.

PDA strongly recommends that animals returning home from fairs and shows exist isolated from other members of the herd or flock for a minimum of three weeks to assistance forestall the spread of affliction and recommends that exhibitors of all animals talk over the health of their animals, including vaccine recommendations, with a veterinary on a regular basis. PDA as well encourages beast and poultry owners to register their bounds so they can exist contacted in a disease emergency situation. Call 717-836-3235 to annals a bounds.

Cattle

Section three: Pennsylvania Cattle:

Requirements:

1. A Document of Veterinarian Inspection (CVI) issued within the 30 days prior to the opening date of the exhibition is required.

two. Sexually intact cattle shall be identified by an official ear tag or other unique identification device approved by PDA. Official identification includes:

▪A USDA issued National Uniform Ear tagging System (NUES) tag: or

▪A 15 digit Animate being Identification Number(AIN( ear tag Starting with "840"; or

▪Other identification approved by the PDA (brands and breed registrations with tattoos are not acceptable).

▪ID requirements specific to the Farm Testify complex: All cattle entering the circuitous must be identified with a 15 digit 840 iso compliant RFID ear tag. The just exception to this will be for cattle who were identified using a 900 series 15-digit iso compliant tag placed before January 1, 2015. No other exceptions will be granted. If you intend to showroom at the complex, please distinguish between840 tags with RFID capabilities versus 840 tags that practice non have those capabilities prior to placing identification in your animal.

Recommendations:

1. In improver to the identification for sexually intact cattle, all non-sexually intact cattle including steers and spayed heifers should be identified with forms of ID consistent with# one in requirements to a higher place.

2. All animals must exist free of evidence of infectious and contagious diseases and a statement of this should exist written on the CVI.

3. A current rabies vaccination administered by a licensed veterinarian for animals 3 months of age and older (find appropriate slaughter withdraw time). Marketplace cattle consigned for immediate slaughter can be exempt.

4.Rodeo: It is recommended that rodeo cattle of all ages be negative on an official tuberculin test within lx days prior to the start of the fair unless they are members of and originate from an accredited tuberculosis-free herd. The cattle can be accompanied by the negative test written report or the tuberculosis examination results can be recorded by the veterinarian on a CVI.

Section 4: Out of State Cattle:

Requirements:

1. A Certificate of Veterinarian Inspection (CVI) issued within the 30 days prior to the opening date of the exhibition is required.

2. All animals must deport official brute identification. (Notation: RFID tags volition be required at Commune and State Dairy shows.)

3. For dairy creature entries, The Document of Veterinary Inspection (health certificate) must include a statement that the creature(southward) identified have been immunized confronting IBR, PI3, BRSV, and BVD.

4. Vesicular Stomatitis (VS): This applies to cattle inbound Pennsylvania from states that experienced a Vesicular Stomatitis outbreak in the last 12 months. In these cases an accredited veterinarian shall decide whether the animals are free from VS, and animals shall be accompanied by a CVI with the following statement signed by the accredited veterinarian: "All animals identified on this CVI accept been examined and found to be complimentary from VS. During the past 90 days, these animals have neither been exposed to VS nor were located inside 10 miles of a site where VS has been diagnosed."

five. All animals must be free of evidence of infectious and contagious diseases and a argument of this is required on the CVI.

6. Federal regulation (USDA) requires individual official animal identification for sexually intact cattle in interstate movement. Official ID will have a United states of america shield and includes:

▪A USDA-issued National Compatible Ear tagging System (NUES) tag; or

▪A 15-digit Brute Identification Number (Ain) ear tag starting with "840"; or

▪Other official identification approved by USDA. (brands and breed registrations with tattoos are not acceptable).

▪ID requirements specific to the Farm Show circuitous: All cattle entering the complex must be identified with a 15 digit 840 iso compliant RFID ear tag. The only exception to this will exist for cattle who were indented using a 900 serial 15-digit iso compliant tag placed before Jan one, 2015. No other exceptions will be granted. Please distinguish between 840 tags with RFID capabilities versus840 tags that practice not have those capabilities prior to placing identification in your beast.

7. Tuberculosis testing requirements:

▪No test is required for animals originating from states or zones designated equally accredited gratis by the USDA.

▪All animals originating from states or zones designated modified accredited advanced past the USDA must be test negative inside the 60 days prior to the date of importation. The negative examination results and dates of tests must exist included on the CVI or the animal must exist accompanied by a negative examination report (a copy of the original study is acceptable).

▪All animals originating from states or zones designated modified accredited by the USDA must originate from herds in which all animals 12 months of historic period and older are examination negative within the 12 months prior to the engagement of importation and the individual animals (all ages) to be imported are also examination negative within the60 days prior to the engagement of importation and at least 60 days after the negative whole herd test was completed. The negative test results and engagement of test must be included on the CVI or the brute must be accompanied by a negative test study (a copy of the original exam written report is adequate).

▪Special Tuberculosis Test requirement for Rodeo Cattle: All rodeo cattle and bison from out of country must be negative on an official tuberculosis test within lx days prior to entering Pennsylvania unless they originate from and are members of an Accredited Tuberculosis-complimentary herd within an accredited Tuberculosis-free country or zone. This requirement for rodeo cattle from out of state is in addition to all other requirements listed higher up for out of state cattle.

Recommendations:

1.A electric current rabies vaccination administered past a licensed veterinarian is recommended for animals 3 months of age and older (observe appropriate slaughter withdraw fourth dimension). Market cattle consigned for slaughter immediately post-obit exhibition can be exempt.

Dairy Beef

1. Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) issued within the 30 days prior to the opening date of the exhibition is required.

ii. Calves are required to be vaccinated against IBR, PI3, BRSV, and BVD using one dose of modified live vaccine or two doses of killed vaccine. (Examples: Bovishield and Pyramid).

three. It is recommended that calves be given a rabies vaccination.

4. If your steer has symptoms of ringworm within 4 weeks of Off-white, you should accept your animal treated by a veterinarian and a statement of date/treatment.

All members are responsible for health requirements to add value of animals for the buyer.

Equine

Section 9: Pennsylvania Equine Animals:

Requirements:

1. A Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) issued within the xxx days prior to the opening engagement of the exhibition is required.

2. All animals must exist gratis of evidence of infectious and contagious diseases and a statement of this should be written on the CVI.

3. It is recommended that all equine animals exist test negative for Equine Infectious Anemia (Eia) by an official exam within the 12 months prior to the opening date of the exhibition. Laboratory exam results should accompany each animal to its final destination (a copy of the original lab report is acceptable). The CVI shall specify the engagement of sample collection and EIA exam results. Foals less than six months of age accompanied by a examination-negative dam are exempt from Eia testing requirements. If the foal is non accompanied by the dam, a copy of the dam's test results must accompany the foal to its last destination.

4. A current rabies vaccination administered by a licensed veterinarian for animals three months of age and older. The name of the product used, date of administration and Veterinarian administering the rabies vaccination should announced on the CVI or on a Rabies vaccination certificate and this information should correlate to a written clarification of the horse, and any and all forms of identification associated with the equus caballus- such as lip, tattoos, brands, or microchips.

Section ten: Out of State Equine Animals:

Requirements:

1. A Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) issued within the xxx days prior to the appointment of importation is required.

two. Vesicular Stomatitis (VS) statement: This applies to horses entering Pennsylvania from states that experienced a Vesicular Stomatitis outbreak in the final 12 months. In these cases an accredited veterinary shall determine whether the animals are complimentary from VS, and animals shall exist accompanied by a CVI with the following statement signed by the accredited veterinarian: "All animals identified on this CVI have been examined and institute to exist complimentary from VS. During the past ninety days, these animals were not located inside 10 miles of a site where VS has been diagnosed."

3. All animals must be free of prove of infectious and contagious diseases and a statement of this is required on the CVI.

four. All equine animals must exist test negative for Equine Infectious Anemia (Eia) past an official test within the 12 months prior to the date of importation. Laboratory test results must accompany each animal to its final destination (a re-create of the original lab report is acceptable). The CVI shall specify the engagement of sample drove and EIA test results.

Foals under vi months of age accompanied by a dam with negative Environmental impact assessment official test results are exempt from Eia testing requirements. If the foal is non accompanied by the dam, a copy of the dam's test results must accompany the foal to its terminal destination.

v. If an equine animal has resided in Texas or New Mexico for a cumulative full of 30 days or more inside the six months preceding the date of entry into the Commonwealth, that animal must be examination-negative for Babesia caballi and Theilleria equi on a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (c-ELISA) test, or a Section-approved equivalent examination, with the test occurring within the 30 days preceding entry into Pennsylvania. The date of test and the test results shall be written on the Document of Veterinary Inspection.

Recommendations:

half dozen. A current rabies vaccination administered past a licensed veterinarian for animals 3 months of age and older. The name of the product used, date of administration and Veterinary administering the rabies vaccination should announced on the CVI or on a Rabies vaccination certificate and this information should correlate to a written description of the horse, and any and all forms of identification associated with the equus caballus- such every bit lip, tattoos, brands, or microchips.

Goats

Section 11: Pennsylvania Goats:

Requirements:

1. A Certificate of Veterinarian Inspection (CVI) issued within the xxx days prior to the opening date of the exhibition is required.

ii. Individual official creature identification is required for all goats. Official ID includes:

▪ A USDA ear tag with a US shield ; which includes scrapie program tags (animals bearing identification with blue colored scrapie plan tags are not permitted be exhibited in Pennsylvania- please call the department at 717-783-6851 if such a tag is encountered).or

▪ A legible tattoo with herd and individual identification recognized in an approved USDA Scrapie database a.k.a. scrapie tattoo (flock ID in the right ear--land postal code and letters/numbers--and individual animal ID in the left ear); or

▪ A brood registration tattoo if the animal is accompanied by a registration certificate and the tattoo is legible.

▪ Identification used for sheep and goats must be permanently affixed to the individual animal.

2. For postal service-exhibition sales the following requirements apply:

a. Market goats must exist documented on sales slips which incorporate the following information:

▪ Official identification (as described above)

▪ Auction engagement

▪ Auction location

▪ Name, address and phone number of the exhibitor

▪ Hauler contact information

▪ Destination name and contact information

▪ Total number of animals in the shipment

▪ Type of goat (i.e. meat, dairy, specific brood)

▪ Signature of consignee, agent, or hauler

Those slips or a certificate capturing all of the above must follow the goat to their final destination (including slaughter facilities)

b. Goats which are purchased with the intent of breeding and are traveling via interstate movement must have an interstate Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (ICVI) prior to movement to the destination state.

c. A copy of the sale records slips as delineated above and a copy of any ICVIs (in b. to a higher place) must exist kept past the auction organizer/extension for five years.

ID requirements specific to the Farm Show circuitous: Market goats entering the complex must be identified with a 15 digit 840 iso compliant RFID ear tag. This can exist in add-on to the forms of Id listed to a higher place so long as only one 840 ID is used. No exceptions volition be granted. If you wish to exhibit at the circuitous please distinguish betwixt 840 tags with RFID capabilities versus 840 tags that do not have those capabilities prior to placing identification in your beast.

Recommendations:

1. All animals must be complimentary of evidence of infectious and contagious diseases and a argument of this should be written on the CVI.

Section 12: Out of State Goats

Requirements:

1. A Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) issued within the 30 days prior to the opening date of the exhibition is required.

2. Vesicular Stomatitis (VS) statement: This applies to states that experienced a VS outbreak in the last 12 months. In these cases an accredited veterinarian shall determine whether the animals are free from VS, and animals shall be accompanied past a CVI with the following argument signed by the accredited veterinarian: "All animals identified on this CVI take been examined and plant to be gratis from VS. During the past ninety days, these animals were non located within 10 miles of a site where VS has been diagnosed."

three. All animals must be free of evidence of infectious and contagious diseases and a argument of this is required on the CVI.

4. Private official fauna identification is required for all goats. Official ID includes:

a. A USDA ear tag with a US shield ; which includes scrapie plan tags (animals bearing identification with blue colored scrapie plan tags are not permitted be exhibited in Pennsylvania- please phone call the section at 717-783-6851 if such a tag is encountered). or

b. A legible tattoo with herd and individual identification recognized in an canonical USDA Scrapie database a.one thousand.a. scrapie tattoo (flock ID in the right ear--state postal code and letters/numbers--and individual animal ID in the left ear); or

c. A breed registration tattoo if the animate being is accompanied by a registration document and the tattoo is legible.

d. Identification used for sheep and goats must exist permanently affixed to the individual animal.

• Tuberculosis testing requirements:

▪ No test is required for animals originating from states or zones designated every bit accredited-costless by the USDA.

▪ All animals originating from states or zones designated modified accredited advanced by the USDA must be test negative within the lx days prior to the date of importation. The negative exam results and date of test must be included on the CVI or the beast must exist accompanied by a negative test report (a copy of the original report is acceptable).

▪ All animals originating from states or zones designated modified accredited must originate from herds in which all animals 12 months of age and older take tested negative within the 12 months prior to the date of importation; and the private animals (all ages) to exist imported have also tested negative within the 60 days prior to the date of importation and at to the lowest degree 60 days subsequently the negative whole herd test was completed. The negative test results and date of test must be included on the CVI or the beast must be accompanied by a negative test study (a copy of the original test written report is acceptable).

5. For post-exhibition sales the following requirements apply:

a. Market goats must be documented on sales slips which contain the following information

•Official identification (as described above)

•Sale date

•Sale location

•Proper noun, address and phone number of the exhibitor

•Hauler contact information

•Destination name and contact information

•Total number of animals in the shipment

•Type of goat (i.due east. meat, dairy, specific breed)

•Signature of consignee, agent, or hauler

Those slips or a document capturing all of the above must follow the goats to their destination (including slaughter facilities)

c. A copy of the sale records slips as delineated above and a copy of whatsoever CVIs (in b. above) must be kept by the sale organizer/extension for 5years.

• ID requirements specific to the Farm Show complex: Market place goats entering the complex must be identified with a 15 digit 840 iso compliant RFID ear tag. This tin be in addition to the forms of ID listed above and then long as only i 840 ID is used. No exceptions will be granted. If you wish to showroom at the complex please distinguish between 840 tags with RFID capabilities versus 840 tags that do non have those capabilities prior to placing identification in your animal.

Recommendations:

All out of state goats must encounter all criteria listed above as "requirements". PDA has no additional recommendations to forbid the introduction of contagious disease from out of country goats.

Poultry

Section xiii: Pennsylvania Poultry

Requirements:

i. All Pennsylvania poultry, including chickens, entering an exhibition must behave an official PDA-issued leg band.

2. An Owner-endorsed Poultry Health Certificate or a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (health certificate) must back-trail all Pennsylvania poultry, including chickens and hatching eggs. The certificate must include the post-obit:

*Proper name and location of exhibition; and

*Name, address, and telephone number of the possessor; and

*A statement that the entries and the flock of origin are free of evidence of infectious and contagious diseases; and

*Owner signature and appointment of that signature.

3. Avian Influenza Testing and Verification: All samples must be collected by a Certified Poultry Technician or a Category Two Accredited Veterinarian.

▪All poultry, including chickens, and their hatching eggs for exhibition must originate from a flock in which a random, representative sample of a minimum of 30 birds, 3 weeks of age or older, were tested for avian flu within the xxx days prior to opening date of the exhibition. The birds or hatching eggs must be accompanied by the most recent exam report (re-create acceptable). Test results must exist negative. If at that place are fewer than thirty birds in the flock, test all birds. Untested birds shall not be comingled with or added to the tested flock later on negative samples have been nerveless and earlier the testify.

4. Pullorum-typhoid Testing and Verification: All samples must be collected by a Certified Poultry Technician or a Category II Accredited Veterinarian.

▪Poultry, including chickens, and their hatching eggs must originate from a flock in adept continuing on the NPIP Pullorum-typhoid Clean Program (and in that location was no break in the chain of ownership past NPIP participants) or from a flock in practiced standing on the PA Pullorum Equivalent Programme. The birds or hatching eggs must exist accompanied by the nigh recent test study (copy acceptable). Test results must be negative. If the rapid whole-claret plate agglutination test was washed, the most contempo NPIP 9-two grade or state equivalent form must accompany the birds or hatching eggs (copy acceptable). Test results must be negative. If birds are less than i year of historic period and all originate from an NPIP Make clean hatchery, they do not have to be tested for pullorum-typhoid if they are accompanied by an NPIP 9-3 form from that hatchery and whatever additions to the flock were besides from NPIP Make clean sources. The NPIP number must exist noted on the report for NPIP Pullorum-typhoid Clean flocks;

▪All individual birds for exhibition and birds providing hatching eggs (maximum of 300) must take had a pullorum-typhoid test within the 90 days prior to the opening engagement of the exhibition. The birds must exist accompanied by the most recent test report, or country equivalent class for the rapid test (copies acceptable). Test results must be negative. The following age restrictions apply:

▪Chickens shall exist tested at iv months of age or older.

▪All birds not meeting these age restrictions at the fourth dimension of sampling are exempt from pullorum-typhoid testing requirements.

▪If all of the birds going to the showroom are below the minimum testing age for pullorum-typhoid, at least 10% of birds of testing age in the flock shall be tested inside the ninety days prior to the opening appointment of the exhibition, (Maximum 300 birds.)

v.Testing specifics/Records requirements:

a. Sample collectors and testers must maintain records of animal identification, canonical rapid testing, and whatsoever other records required by the Domestic Animal Law, and whatever order issued by the Department for a minimum of ii years and must make records available to the Department upon request.

b. National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) protocols for sample collection, including the number of swabs/tubes of viral ship media, and testing shall be followed. All samples must be tested at a NAHLN laboratory.(excluding the Pullorum-typhoid rapid whole blood plate agglutination test that may be conducted at farm)

Section xiv: Out of State Poultry

Requirements:

one. All Pennsylvania poultry, including chickens, inbound an exhibition must carry an official PDA-issued leg band.

two. An Owner-endorsed Poultry Health Document or a Document of Veterinary Inspection (health document) must accompany all Pennsylvania poultry, including chickens and hatching eggs. The certificate must include the following:

▪Proper noun and location of exhibition; and

▪Proper noun, address, and telephone number of the owner; and

▪A statement that the entries and the flock of origin are gratis of bear witness of infectious and contagious diseases; and

▪Possessor signature and date of that signature.

3. Avian Influenza Testing and Verification: All samples must be collected past a Certified Poultry Technician or a Category Two Accredited Veterinarian. All poultry, including chickens, and their hatching eggs must originate from a flock in which a random, representative sample of a minimum of thirty birds, 3 weeks of age or older, were tested for avian influenza inside the xxx days prior to the opening date of the exhibition. The birds or hatching eggs must be accompanied by the most recent exam report (copy adequate).Test results must exist negative. If there are fewer than 30 birds in the flock, test all birds. Untested birds shall not be comingled with or added to the tested flock afterward negative samples have been collected and before the show.

iv. Pullorum-typhoid Testing and Verification (pigeons/doves excluded): All samples must exist collected by a Certified Poultry Technician or a Category 2 Accredited Veterinarian.

a. All poultry and hatching eggs must come up from NPIP Pullorum-typhoid Clean flocks in good continuing with the program (and at that place was no break in the concatenation of ownership by NPIP participants) and the birds must be accompanied past an NPIP 9-3 form;

b. All individual birds and birds providing hatching eggs(maximum of 300) must have had a negative pullorum-typhoid examination within the 30 days prior to the opening date of the exhibition. The birds must be accompanied by the almost recent test report (copy adequate). Test results must be negative. If the rapid whole-claret plate agglutination examination was done, the most recent NPIP nine-2 class must back-trail the birds (copy acceptable). Examination results must be negative. The following historic period restrictions employ to comply with NPIP standards:

▪Chickens shall be tested at four months of age or older.

▪All birds non meeting these minimum age restrictions at the time of sampling must come from a flock in which all the test-eligible birds in the flock (up to 300) have been examination negative within the thirty days prior to the opening date of the exhibition.

v. Testing specifics/Records requirements

a. Sample collectors and testers must maintain records of animal identification, approved rapid testing, and whatever other records required by the Domestic Animal Law, and any order issued by the Department for a minimum of two years and must make records available to the Section upon asking.

b. National Beast Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) protocols for sample collection, including the number of swabs/tubes of viral transport media, and testing shall be followed. All samples must be tested at a NAHLN laboratory.(excluding the Pullorum-typhoid rapid whole blood plate agglutination exam that may exist conducted at farm)

Rabbits

Section xv: Pennsylvania Rabbits:

Requirements:

1. All animals must be free of infectious and contagious diseases.

2. The following Fauna Owner or Caretaker'southward Verification of Veterinary Consultation Relationship statement for the animals being exhibited must be included with a signature line for the owner or caretaker on the fair registration form: "I attest and affirm that a "veterinarian consultation relationship" – every bit that phrase is divers in the Beast Exhibition Sanitation Law found at iii Pa.C.S.A. § 2501 et seq. and any amendments thereto – "exists with regard to any animals I volition exist exhibiting." The name and phone number of the consulting veterinarian must exist included on the entry course.

Recommendations:

i. A Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI). It is highly recommended that fairs and exhibitions ask that each exhibited rabbit exist listed on an intrastate CVI written within 14 days of entrance. The Certificate of Veterinary inspection shall be written by an accredited Veterinarian and incorporate the following statements:

" All Rabbits in the shipment have been examined for and found free of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases including RHDV-2 and there have not been multiple mortality events or rabbits exhibiting hemorrhages inside the last 90 days. The rabbits in this shipment have not been housed or exhibited with any rabbits associated with known mass mortality or hemorrhage events"

"In the last 90 days, the rabbits in this shipment, take not been exhibited in, housed in, or traveled to, any state or territory in which RHDV-2 has been diagnosed within the last 12 months. In improver, during the last 90 days, they take had no contact with any captive or wild rabbit originating from or travelled to one of those affected states or territories."

Please note: vaccination of Pennsylvania origin rabbits should not exempt the participant from having to attach to and attest to the above statements on the CVI.

Requirements:

The Department of Agriculture has no specific requirements for Pennsylvania rabbits at fairs. However, off-white direction has the authority to impose requirements designed to preclude the spread of contagious diseases. While on exhibit, report all mass bloodshed events and all rabbits who are ill and haemorrhage from eyes, nose, oral fissure, or take bloody stools to the department emergency line 717-772-2852 selection 1. We need your help to quickly identify and stop dangerous transmissible diseases such every bit RHDV-2.

Sheep

Section 17: Pennsylvania Sheep:

Requirements:

1. A Certificate of Veterinarian Inspection (CVI) issued within the 30 days prior to the opening date of the exhibition is required.

ii. Individual official animal identification is required for all sheep. Official ID includes:

• A USDA ear tag with a US shield ; which includes scrapie program tags (animals begetting identification with blue colored scrapie program tags are not permitted be exhibited in Pennsylvania- please telephone call the department at 717-783-6851 if such a tag is encountered).or

• A legible tattoo with herd and individual identification recognized in an approved USDA Scrapie database a.k.a. scrapie tattoo (flock ID in the right ear--state postal code and messages/numbers-- and private animal ID in the left ear); or

• A brood registration tattoo if the animals are accompanied by a registration certificate (re-create adequate) and the tattoo is legible.

• Identification used for sheep and goats must be permanently affixed to the individual animal.

three. For post-exhibition sales the following requirements apply:

a. Market sheep must be documented on sales slips which contain the following information:

• Official identification (as described higher up)

• Sale engagement

• Sale location

• Name, accost and telephone number of the exhibitor

• Hauler contact information

• Destination name and contact data

• Total number of animals in the shipment

• Type of sheep (i.due east. meat, wool, specific brood)

• Signature of consignee, agent, or hauler

Those slips or a document capturing all of the above must follow the sheep to their destination (including slaughter facilities)

b. Sheep which are purchased with the intent of breeding and are traveling via interstate motility must have an interstate Document of Veterinary Inspection(ICVI) prior to movement to the destination state.

c. A copy of the sale records slips every bit delineated above and a copy of whatever ICVIs (in b. above) must be kept past the sale organizer/extension for 5 years.

Recommendations:

1. All animals must be free of evidence of infectious and contagious diseases and a statement of this should be written on the CVI.

two. A current rabies vaccination administered past a licensed veterinarian for animals 3 months of age and older (find advisable slaughter withdraw fourth dimension). Sheep consigned every bit market animals for slaughter may exist exempt from this recommendation.

Department 18: Out of State Sheep:

Requirements:

1. A Certificate of Veterinarian Inspection (CVI) issued within the 30 days prior to the opening date of the exhibition is required.

ii. Vesicular Stomatitis (VS) Statement: This applies to states that experienced a VS outbreak in the last 12 months. In these cases an accredited veterinarian shall determine whether the animals are free from VS, and animals shall be accompanied by a CVI with the following argument signed past the accredited veterinarian: "All animals identified on this CVI have been examined and found to be gratuitous from VS. During the past 90 days, these animals were not located inside 10 miles of a site where VS has been diagnosed."

iii. All animals must exist gratis of evidence of infectious and contagious diseases and a statement of this is required on the CVI.

4. Individual official USDA scrapie fauna identification is required. Official scrapie ID includes:

•A USDA ear tag with a U.s. shield which includes scrapie programme tags(animals begetting identification with blueish colored scrapie program tags are non permitted be exhibited in Pennsylvania- please call the department at 717-783-6851 if such a tag is encountered).

• A legible tattoo with herd and individual identification recognized in an approved USDA Scrapie database a.g.a. scrapie tattoo (flock ID in the right ear--country postal code and messages/numbers--and individual brute ID in the left ear);

•A breed registration tattoo if the animals are accompanied by a registration certificate (copy acceptable) and the tattoo is legible.

5. For mail service-exhibition sales the post-obit requirements utilize:

a. Market sheep must be documented on sales slips which contain the following information:

•Official identification (every bit described above)

•Auction date

•Sale location

•Proper name, address and phone number of the exhibitor

•Hauler contact information

•Destination name and contact data

•Total number of animals in the shipment

•Type of sheep (i.due east. meat, wool, specific brood)

•Signature of consignee, amanuensis, or hauler

Those slips or a document capturing all of the above must follow the sheep to their destination (including slaughter facilities)

b. Sheep which are purchased with the intent of convenance and are traveling via interstate movement must have a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (ICVI) prior to movement to the destination country.

c. A copy of the sale records slips as delineated above and a copy of whatever ICVIs (in b. above) must be kept by the auction organizer/extension for 5 years.

Please see rabies requirements for exhibition of sheep at the Farm show complex in the general section

Recommendations:

1. A current rabies vaccination administered by a licensed veterinarian for animals 3months of age and older (detect appropriate slaughter withdraw time).Sheep consigned as market animals for slaughter may be exempt from this recommendation.

Swine

Section 19: Pennsylvania Swine:

Requirements:

1. No swine species shall be exhibited in Pennsylvania unless each fauna:

▪Is accompanied by a certificate of veterinary inspection (CVI) issued within 14days of the exhibition;

▪Is permanently identified by an official 840 series radio frequency identification (RFID) ear tag and the ear tag number is recorded on the CVI;

▪Has been visually inspected and plant to exist free of signs of contagious disease immediately prior to unloading at the exhibition past an accredited veterinary or swine health monitor appointed by the fair lath or livestock prove committee.

▪Swine health monitors appointed by fairs or show/result organizers must undergo annual online grooming which tin can exist found at the following link: Pennsylvania Show and Fair Swine Health Monitor Training (psu.edu) or the following site Extension.psu.edu/Pennsylvania-evidence-and-fair-swine-health-monitor-training.

-Swine health monitors must provide a current completion certificate to the fair or testify staff they will be performing monitoring services for, prior to the start of the consequence.

ii. All breeding swine exhibitions are to occur prior to the arrival of any market swine:

a. Breeding swine must be removed from the animal exhibition bounds prior to whatever market swine arriving.

b. Breeding swine animal exhibitions shall get in, exhibit, and depart in a period no greater than 72 hours. Time begins when the beginning swine arrives physically on the fairgrounds whether unloaded from a trailer or not and ends when the last sus scrofa physically leaves the premises on a trailer.

c. Swine birthing exhibitions and educational displays which are not competing may occur meantime with marketplace swine animate being exhibition, equally long as, reasonable precaution is made to ensure the biosecurity of the swine birthing exhibition or educational display.

3. All market swine exhibited in Section sponsored market place shows shall move as all in and all out directly to a PDA or USDA licensed slaughter facility post-obit the animal exhibition and may not exist diverted to premises other than a recognized slaughter establishment or a slaughter market in which the sales are designated slaughter simply sales.

4. Not-PDA sponsored shows including jackpot shows and 4-H round-ups, not occurring during a PDA sponsored fair or show are exempt from the terminal slaughter requirement merely if the following weather are adhered to:

a. As is stated to a higher place, the swine shall be accompanied past a certificate of veterinary inspection issued within 14 days of the exhibition and shall be permanently identified past an 840 serial radio frequency (RFID) identification ear tag.

b. Arrival, exhibition and divergence of the swine occur inside a 72-60 minutes window. Fourth dimension begins when the first swine arrives physically on the exhibition grounds, whether unloaded from a trailer or non, and ends when the last hog physically leaves the premises on a trailer.

c. There is no public admission to the animals other than ascertainment during competitions.

d. An Accredited Veterinarian or trained swine health monitor visually inspects the animals prior to unloading, and they are constitute to be free of signs of contagious disease.

e. An accredited Veterinary or trained swine health monitor shall monitor and record the health of the pigs daily for signs of contagious disease and the accredited Veterinarian shall immediately written report all suspicious illness to the State Animal Wellness Official.

f. A Veterinarian-customer-patient-relationship is established between the show committee/management staff and an accredited Veterinarian, and that Veterinary is readily bachelor for health monitoring, emergency coverage, treatment, follow upward evaluation, and prompt reporting of suspicious disease to the State Creature Health Official.