The Northwest Washington Fair minimum health requirements are supplied by the Department of Agriculture's most current recommended minimum health requirements for county, district and state fairs.

 

RECOMMENDED MINIMUM ANIMAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS FOR COUNTY, DISTRICT AND STATE FAIRS:

 

1. Each fair should have an official fair veterinarian in attendance.

 

2. Individual health certificates on Washington animals are not required for entry into the fair. The fair veterinarian may issue a blanket health certificate covering all in-state entries to the fair.

 

3. No animal from a quarantined area or premise may be permitted to enter the fair or show.

 

4. Out of state animal entries must comply with State of Washington import regulations. No exemptions unless exempted by rule.

 

5. All sheep and goats, except castrated males and those moving directly to process channels, must have official USDA National Scrapie Eradication program-assigned flock identification number. This may include either a tag, tattoo, or microchip (with reader provided by exhibitor or written proof of microchip). Unmarked animals will not be allowed to stay at fair.

 

6. Fair veterinarians should inspect all classes of livestock and poultry (including horses, pet animals, rabbits, fur-bearing animals, pigeons, ducks, geese and turkeys) before they are exhibited to determine that the livestock and poultry show no clinical indications of contagious, infectious diseases and ectoparasites.

 

7. Fair veterinarians should reject any animal with infectious or contagious diseases or ectoparasites. Exhibitors should be made aware that ringworm, warts, pinkeye, strangles, contagious ecthyma, scabies, lice, mites, ticks and fleas fall in these categories.

 

8. Animals exhibiting disease symptoms during the course of the fair should be rejected by the fair veterinarian and removed from the exhibit area.

 

9. It is strongly recommended, but not required, that cattle be vaccinated in the current show year against the respiratory diseases.

 

10. The fair veterinarian's professional decision as to the health status of an animal should be final and be upheld by the fair board.

 

POLICY ALLOWING ENTRY OF NON-VACCINATED CANADIAN CATTLE BEING EXHIBITED AT WASHINGTON FAIRS.

 

"Out-of-state animal entries must comply with Washington State import requirements." Our policy will be to allow non-vaccinated Canadian cattle entry to the fair provided the fair board rules allow non-vaccinates to be exhibited. The brucellosis and tuberculosis tests are no longer required on Canadian cattle.

 

 

Entry permits are required for all out-of-state cattle and breeder and feeder swine. A blanket permit to each fair will be issued upon request by calling (360) 902-1878.

 

All out-of-state animals going to the fairs must have a health certificate except for Idaho and Oregon horses, sheep and llamas traveling into Washington with their owners in personal vehicles for roundtrip visits of not more than 96 hours. This exemption does not apply during emergency disease conditions declared by the State Veterinarian or extend to any required testing.

 

OUT-OF-STATE CATTLE

 

Beef cattle may go to fairs without a test for Brucellosis from the free states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. Dairy females 20 months of age and vaccinated and bulls six months of age from these stated will need to be tested for Brucellosis if there is a chance they will be sold. No test required if for show only and return.

 

Cattle coming from all other free states need to be tested for Brucellosis, whether beef or dairy, using the ages of 20 months for dairy and 24 months for beef females who are strain 19 vaccinates or RB 51 vaccinates and six months for bulls.

 

OUT-OF-STATE GOATS

 

Only goats being sold into goat dairies need to be tested negative for Brucellosis within thirty days prior to date of entry. If they are for show & return only, no test required. If any lactating goats are shown, their milk must be discarded during any stay in Washington unless goats are tested for Brucellosis. All goats will now be required to have scrapie identification, see rule 5 above.

 

OUT-OF-STATE SHEEP

 

All breeding rams six months of age and over going into a flock for breeding purposes must have a negative ELISA test for Brucella ovis within thirty days prior to entry into Washington and be palpated and certified free of Brucella ovis or be from a Brucella free flock, unless for show and return. All sheep must have scrapie identification, see rule 5 above.

 

OUT-OF-STATE HORSES

 

Horses six months of age and older need to be negative to an EIA test within six months of entry, except horses from Oregon.

 

OUT-OF-STATE LLAMAS

 

Llamas and alpacas six months of age and over must be tested negative for Brucellosis and Tuberculosis not more than 30 days prior to entry. The Tuberculosis test is to be performed just caudal to the elbow joint in a similar manner to the single strength single cervical test. Exempt from health certificate and testing requirements are llamas and alpacas traveling into the state with their Oregon and Idaho owners in personal vehicles for roundtrip visits of not more than 96 hours.

 

OUT-OF-STATE POULTRY

 

Exhibition poultry shall originate from U.S. Pullorum-Typhoid clean or equivalent flocks or have had a negative Pullorum-Typhoid test within 30 days of the movement to public exhibition.

 

OUT-OF-STATE SWINE

 

Feeder and breeder swine must be tested negative to Pseudorabies within 30 days prior to entry except swine originating from a pseudorabies qualified negative herd where the qualifying test has been conducted within sixty days of shipment and all new additions since the test have been tested negative or are from states classified as Sate IV or V by the pseudorabies eradication committee. Swine six months and over must be negative to a Brucellosis test 30 days prior to entry except swine originating from a validated brucellosis free herd of state or area.