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Title: 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!
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