[Jacob-list] scrapie program--start dates

[Kathryn Shirley]

Actually, you are not responsible for keeping track of the animal once it leaves your
farm.  You are responsible for listing where it went (slaughter, sales, direct sale to
a person).  You are expected to keep a record of the individual people you sell to
(name, address, phone).  Once the animal is in someone else's hands, they are
responsible for keeping a record of what they do with it.

You are certified scrapie free (in the voluntary program) if for five years you have
not had scrapie traced back to you.  Your start date is determined first by the date
you actually joined the program.  If you purchase ewes that are not from scrapie free
flocks, or whose start date is after yours then your date will change.  It will change
to either the date of ownership (date it lands on your property) or the date of the
scrapie start point for the flock you got the animal from--whichever is the earlier
date.

Rams will not affect the start date of your flock.  You can purchase 100 rams a year
and not  change the start date.

Kate Shirley
Humbug Farm

Linda wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:26:47 -0500, Heather Hettick wrote:
>   I have to tag my breeding stock over a year old and those I
> >sell
> >other than for slaughter.
> >
> >Heather Hettick
> >Moonstruck Jacob Sheep
> >Creston, Ohio
> >
>
> Is there any testing of your slaughter animals to certify them as scrapie free?  If
> you sell to someone that is not in the voluntary program and lose track of that
> animal, what happens to your flock certification?
>
> For example, say you sell a sheep to someone that does not keep up registrations.
> The sheep ends up going through a sale barn and on to slaughter - or dies at
> someone's farm where they just dig and hole and bury it.  How does that sheep show
> up on your records?  You don't know that it was scrapie free as there is no record
> of where it ended up -  or do you?  If I don't bring or sell in any sheep for five
> years and have no deaths (except by slaughter) and records to prove it, does that
> mean that my flock is scrapie free (even if I'm not in the program)?
>
> Linda
>
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