Alphabet Soup
These individuals help regulate animal movement and disease in a State.
What is a SAHO or State Animal Health Official?
This rule was published in 2013 and covers multiple species for identification and movement requirements.
What is the Animal Disease Traceability rule aka 9CFR part 86?
Once issued this document is good travel for this many days by land.
What is 30 days?
Because there is no national program this form of ID is not considered official ID in Colorado.
What are Brands?
Thanks to modern technology and organization the average traceability search went from what to what unit of time.
What is days to minutes?
The term length for the VLMRP.
What is 3 years?
The strain of HPAI in 2022-2024 (current outbreak)
What is H5N1?
These documents require that you certify that an animal has been inspected and is free or infectious, contagious, and/or communicable disease.
What is a CVI or Certificate of Veterinary Inspection?
This program was one the first ID programs of its kind and helped decrease this disease in small ruminant.
What is the Scrapie Program aka 9CFR Part 79.2?
An inspection can be done this many days prior to issuing a CVI.
What is 10 days?
These are the country codes seen as the first 3 digits on official ID for the USA, Mexico, and Canada.
What is 840, 484, and 124?
These are the resources to find movement requirements.
What is a state website, interstatelivestock.com, and aphis pet travel website?
The total amount of money you may receive from the VMLRP.
What is a total of 75,000?
What is Maintence Host?
This program controls and oversees small animal care facilities in Colorado under its on legislative rule.
A plan that increased biosecurity for this industry and helped lighten the burden of movements.
What is the National Poultry Improvement Plan aka 9CFR part 145-147?
More than half of states no longer accept this document for interstate movement.
What is a 7001 form?
These are the 3 things that must be imprinted on an official ear tag.
What is an official identification number, an eartag shield, and unlawful to remove?
These are 2 of the many tasks that accredited veterinarians are allowed to do.
What is mandatory reporting of disease, write health certificates, ID animals, regulatory/movement testing, and regulatory vaccinations?
This is what you need to write a health certificate for any non-domestic species.
What is a type 2 accreditation?
This is the term used to describe a form of antigenic variability with strong impilcations for vaccine development and disease control.
What is a Serotype?
This organization may require additional permits and licensure for movements.
What is the AZA aka Americian Zoological Association?
A rule that allows for group identification because of increased biosecurity and "all-in-all-out" practices.
What is a Herd Health Plan or 9CFR part 71.19?
There are several programs that can be used for interstate health certificates in Colorado name a program that requires individual registration by each veterinarian to us.
What is all of them?
These are 2 of the 4 sites where a microchip can be implanted in a food animals.
What is
This is an example of a type of inadequate address required for a health certificate.
What is a P.O Box?
What is the national forest?
Airlines have this restriction on health certificates.
What is being valid for 10 days?
The genotype of H5N1 that has been circulating in cattle
What is B3.13?
They provide rules for traceability and provide information, resources, and approval for animal movement.
What is USDA APHIS or United States Department of Agriculture Department of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service?
If Bambi's mother was tagged in and within a fence this rule would have dictated how she was tagged.
What is 9 CFR part 77?
These are 4 ways an animal can move across state lines without a health certificate.
What is going direct to slaughter, seeking veterinary care and returning home, using an animal as conveyance, and travel back and forth a state line without unloading the trailer?
An example of official identification for a pig, sheep, dog, horse, and chicken.
What is a 840 RFID tag, a scrapie tag, a microchip, a description, and a leg band?
4 of the required categories that need to be filled out on a health certificate.
What is
1) origin address
2) destination address
3) Animal ID
4) purpose of movement
5) veterinarian information and signature
6) date of inspection
7) other testing or vaccine information
Foreign animal diseases, certain zoonotic diseases, and other diseases that must be reported to government veterinarians.
What are reportable diseases?
This Elvis Preseley song tell you when you should report a potential reportable disease.
What is suspicion?