Quality Assurance

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Quality Assurance What's it to ya?
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What is the purpose of youth livestock projects?

• Teach young people how to feed, fit and show
  their animals.
• Provide an opportunity for personal growth and
  development of the young person.
• Provide opportunities for young people to develop
  character!

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10 Steps to Good Animal Husbandry

• Identify your animals
• Maintain good records
• Take care of medicines and necessary supplies
• Work with your vet for prescriptions
• Share your knowledge with your family
• Use drug residue tests when you should
• Put together an effective herd health plan
• Provide proper animal care!!!
• Mix and store feeds properly
• Enjoy being a producer of high quality product!

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1. Animal Identification

• Need to identify each animal
• When you treat an animal with a medication, you
  can record the info accurately!
• Methods depend upon specie!

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2. Maintain Good Records

• Date of Treatment
• Animal Treated (ID)
• Product Used
• Amount Administered

• Route of Administration
• Who Treated the Animal
• Withdrawal Time
• YOUR RECORD BOOK!

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3. Take care of medicines and necessary supplies

• READ AND FOLLOW THE LABEL!

NAME OF DRUG
ACTIVE INGREDIENT
WITHOLD TIME
CAUTIONS WARNINGS
STORAGE
QUANTITY
DISTRIBUTOR
8. EXPIRATION
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3. Take care of medicines and necessary supplies

• READ AND FOLLOW THE LABEL!
• Withdrawal time
• Dosage
• Diseases/problems treated
• Species
• Expiration date
• Lot number
• Avoid contamination

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3. Take care of medicines and necessary supplies

• Store according to label directions
• Refrigeration?
• Use all at once?
• Dispose of used needles and syringes properly
• Special bags
• Sharps containers
• Bio-hazardous material

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3. Take care of medicines and necessary supplies

• Proper administration
• Subcutaneous (SQ) under the skin
• Intramuscular (IM) in the muscle
• Intravenous (IV) in the vein
• Intranasal in the nose

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Proper Injection Sites
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Proper Injection Sites
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Proper Injection Sites
Subcutaneous In Inside Skin Of Flanks
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3. Take care of medicines and necessary supplies

• Select proper needles

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3. Take care of medicines and necessary supplies

• Proper Animal ID
• Restrain the animal
• Read label directions
• Give SQ if OK
• Vary the injection site
• Records
• Needle-to-bottle

• Sterilized equipment
• Clean injection site
• High Value Cuts
• Dull, bent or barbed needles
• Needle disposal
• Needle Size

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4. Work with your veterinarian

• Develop a Veterinarian / Client / Patient
  Relationship
• Only vets can write prescriptions and authorize
  extra-label use of medications if needed
• Get it in writing
• Increasing the dosage
• Changing the frequency
• Changing the route of administration
• Changing the duration of treatment
• Changing the disease to be treated
• Changing the animal species to be treated

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5. Share your knowledge with your family
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6. Use drug residue tests when needed

• Breeding animal projects
• Culling alternate market animals
• Unsure of administration date of medicine

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7. Herd health plan
Prior Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance!
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8. Provide proper animal care

• Daily observation
• Proper animal handling
• Proper facilities
• Clean water and a nutritionally balanced diet
• Develop project health programs withveterinary
  advice
• Transport your project without undue stress

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8. Provide proper animal care
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8. Provide proper animal care

• Keep facilities and equipment in good condition.
• Watch for nails, loose boards and other hazards
  that could tear the hide or skin or cause
  injuries that invite infection.
• Be sure there is good drainage to avoid standing
  water and excess manure.

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9. Mix and store feeds properly

• The importance of quality feed to livestock
  project cannot be over emphasized
• Prevent feed contamination
• Provide reasonable assurance that the feed is
  prepared accurately

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9. Mix and store feeds properly
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9. Mix and store feeds properly

• Prevent accumulation of dust that could
  contaminate feeds
• Pick up spills
• Ensure metering devices are accurate and suitable
  for their intended purpose
• Design storage areas to avoid accidentalcontamina
  tion of feed with toxic or other non-feed
  substances
• Store feed secure from livestock overeating

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And Number 10
Enjoy Being A Producer!