What’s New for Poultry Exhibitors in 2014?

1. What’s New for Poultry Exhibitors in 2014? Created by: Dr. Lora Davis Presented by: Michele Gill Washington State Department of Agriculture

2. Pullorum-Typhoid Testing • What is pullorum-typhoid?? • Pullorum Disease and Fowl Typhoid are both diseases in poultry and game birds • Pullorum disease is most important in the United States

3. Pullorum-Typhoid Testing • How does testing affect 4-H and other poultry exhibitors?? • A new law passed: all birds going to shows need to be tested for pullorum-typhoid (P-T)

4. Pullorum-Typhoid Testing • But Why?? • I’ve never heard of Pullorum disease in Washington state!!

5. BACKGROUND… First we need to understand Pullorum Disease

6. What Causes Pullorum Disease? • Caused by a bacteria Salmonella pullorum • Disease of baby chicks • 7-10 days of age

7. What signs do you see in birds with Pullorum Disease? • White diarrhea • Pasted vent • Huddle together • Lameness • Difficulty breathing • Blindness • Nearly all chicks with Pullorum Disease die • Chicks that survive can carry the disease

8. Disease in Adult ‘Carriers’ • Drop in egg production • Low fertility or hatchability • Sometimes have diarrhea

9. How is Pullorum Disease spread? • Salmonella bacteria in adult ‘Carrier’ birds will pass to the egg

10. How is Pullorum Disease spread? • Baby chicks hatch and become sick days later

11. How is Pullorum Disease spread? • Sick baby chicks spread the bacteria to other chicks

12. Before you know it, the entire chick flock is infected!

13. How is Pullorum Disease spread? • Salmonella can also contaminate the environment and continue to spread the disease

14. How Do You Treat Pullorum Disease?

15. A Lesson in Pullorum History • 1930’s… ~70 years ago, Pullorum Disease killed a lot of poultry • Prevented farmers from raising chickens

16. National Poultry Improvement Plan • Poultry farmers developed a plan to eliminate Pullorum Disease in the U.S. • Test for carriers • ~20 years later the disease was eliminated in commercial flocks

17. NPIP and Pullorum Disease Today • Today – Pullorum Disease still exists in the U.S.! • 1990 – last outbreak in commercial poultry • 2002 & 2004 – most recent reported outbreaks in small producer flocks

18. Pullorum in Washington State • Washington State: Last Pullorum bacteria isolated in 1987 from Yakima County • Washington is an NPIP ‘Pullorum-Clean State’ • Required for movement of poultry into other states!

19. How can I meet the new requirements? • Birds can be bought from an NPIP participating flock • Keep and present receipt at fair • Birds can be tested prior to the show • Test results good for 90 days • Present test certificate at the fair • Birds can be tested at the show

20. Who Are We?? • The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA): • 8 Divisions • 25 different programs • support the agricultural community • protect consumers and the environment

21. Division of Animal Health • Avian HealthVeterinarian • Dr. Lyndon Badcoe • Avian Health Program • Michele Gill - coordinator

22. QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION