In State Animal Health Requirements

ALL KANSAS LIVESTOCK

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

1. All horses are required to have a evidence of a negative equine infectious anemia (EIA/Coggins) test conducted within 12 months before exhibition. Foals, six months of age and younger, accompanying their EIA-negative dams, are exempt from EIA test requirements. In state horses are required to have a current coggins test but not a CVI.
2. All horses must be VSV inspected by vet before unloading
3. All livestock must be individually identified by Kansas 4-H EID tag, official USDA-approved ear tag, breed registration tattoo or tag, or breed association ear notch for swine that is entered into the database at time of entry or check in. If registration tattoos are used, the registration papers must be available for inspection. It is encouraged for animals to be tagged with an EID tag for movement purposes.
4. Animals with lesions of ringworm or club lamb fungus, warts, sore mouth or infested with mange as determined by officials of the KDAH or exhibition staff will not be permitted to exhibit.
5. All required tests must be conducted by a state-approved laboratory.
6. All animals are subject to examination by officials of the KDAH or those designated by the exhibition staff, and shall be free of clinical signs of infectious or contagious disease.

SWINE

1. No testing for Pseudorabies or brucellosis is required for swine originating in Kansas, as Kansas is at stage V in the National Pseudorabies Program and swine brucellosis free.

SHEEP

1. All sheep must be identified with an official USDA Premises ID (scrapie) tag. Lambs under 8 weeks of age, accompanying their dams, are exempt from tagging requirements.
2. All sheep must be free of any signs of sore mouth.
3. All sheep must be free of signs of active fungal (ringworm) infection, including club lamb fungus. Sheep may be examined by KDAH officials.

GOATS

1. All goats must be identified with an official USDA Premises ID (scrapie) tag or tattoo. Kids under 8 weeks of age, accompanying their dams, are exempt from tagging requirements.
2. All goats must be free of signs of active fungal (ringworm) infection, including sore mouth.

1. All poultry, except waterfowl, must show proof that they are Pullorum-Typhoid clean by one of the following methods:
2. Originate from a U.S. Pullorum -Typhoid clean flock as evidenced by an official VS Form 9-3, certifying all birds in the flock over 3 months of age for turkey flocks and over 4 months of age for all other flocks have had a negative test for Pullorum -Typhoid within the past year.
3. Present evidence that the entries were purchased from a U.S. Pullorum-Typhoid clean source and have been the only poultry on the premises.
4. Present an official VS 9-2 Form, signed by an official testing agent, showing the entries have had a negative Pullorum-Typhoid test within the proceeding 90 days.
5. If an official tester is on site, entries may be tested at the time of entry. A VS 9-2 Form must be completed for each entry. If any birds in an entry test positive for Pullorum-Typhoid, the entire entry, as well as all other birds from the same premises, will be refused.