4-H/FFA Health and Exhibition Q& A

James McKean, Iowa State University Extension swine veterinarian and Iowa Pork Industry Center associate director, can provide answers to your questions. For more information, contact him by e-mail at x2mckean@iastate.edu or phone at (800) 808-7675.

 

We will continue to add questions (and answers) as we receive them from 4-H'ers, parents, leaders, producers, ISU Extension staff and others.

 

2008 Health Exhibition Regulations for livestock, poultry and birds
Iowa county 4-H and FFA county fairs
Iowa State Fair and district shows

 

Pseudorabies (PRV) 2008 update
by Dr. Randy Wheeler and Katie Hyde (from the March 2008 IDALS Animal Industry News newsletter)

Iowa was granted Stage V status by USDA in 2004, but PRV surveillance continues.

In 2008, the fee basis for drawing blood samples for PRV, in regard to the Pseudorabies Control and Eradication Project, will increase from $4.50 to $5.00. The herd stop fee remains at $20 for the accredited veterinarian.

Swine Exhibition requirements for 2008 involving PRV:

1. No testing is required for swine at an exhibition that involves only market classes, provided all

swine are consigned directly to a slaughter establishment from the exhibition. Swine leaving the

exhibition from a market class must be consigned and moved direct to a slaughtering

establishment.

2. Swine that return from an exhibition to the home herd or that are moved to a purchaser’s herd

following an exhibition or consignment sale must be isolated and retested negative for

Pseudorabies not less than 30 and not more than 60 days after reaching their destination.

(Code of Iowa 166D.13(2).

4-H questions and answers from 2007 (This page is for reference only. Not to be used for answers to 2008 questions on exhibition and testing.)

 

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(Requests can be sent to Sherry Hoyer, shoyer@iastate.edu)