assuring

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assuring

• (poultry and rabbits)
• a guide for youth
  livestock producers
• Stephen R Schafer, EdD
  2007 University
  of Wyoming

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Quality Assurance (poultry and rabbits)
Wyoming 4-HQA Training for Youth

• Poultry and Rabbit Quality Assurance Training,
  Information, and Materials were partially adapted
  from Nebraska 4-HYQA Materials.
• Wyoming YQA Team (poultry and rabbits) Dawn
  Sanchez, Wayne Tatman, Tammie Jensen, Ron
  Cunningham, and Steve Schafer

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WHAT is Quality Assurance?

• Quality
• Are products good to eat?
• Are they safe and healthy?
• Do they taste good?
• Are they tender?
• Assurance
• A pledge or a promise
• To consumers from producers

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• The food from our animals will be the highest
  possible quality and we will do everything we can
  to make these products (meat, eggs, fur, etc)
  safe.

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WHY Quality Assurance?

• Improves care and management
• Avoids drug residues
• Increases quality of product
• Increases product value

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WAS there a problem?

• Injection site lesions . were common
• Drug residues . in meat, eggs, milk
• Broken needles . in meat
• Bruised carcasses poor meat quality .
  due to poor handling

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Infection Dirty Needle?
Injection Site Lesions!
Meat Quality Decrease
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What about TODAY?

• Producers get a big thumbs up because
• Residue levels . have greatly decreased
• Broken needles . incidence rate is much lower
• Injection site lesions.much less common
• Bruised carcasses poor meat quality .
  much improved

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Packer Requirements
Mandatory Quality Assurance
Other Requirements
Excel
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Rabbit Poultry Quality Assurance
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Food Safety ---

• Is still very important to consumers!
• Producers also care about food safety!
• Quality Assurance is a way for producers to
  inform consumers about their products and the
  quality of the products they produce!
• Food Safety/Quality Assurance have the common
  goal of making sure that all meat, milk, eggs,
  fur, and other animal products are safe,
  wholesome, and healthy!

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Who Should Be Responsible?
Gate to Plate or Farm to Fork Coop to
SoupDuck to Dinner
Producer -- Packer--Retail/Food Service--Consumer
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Who Should Be Responsible?
Gate to Plate or Farm to Fork Rabbit to
RoastBunny to Brunch
Producer -- Packer--Retail/Food Service--Consumer
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WHO is responsible for QA?

• Everyone involved in food production!
• Livestock producers
• Food processors
• Meat processing plants
• Milk processing plants
• Egg processing plants
• Any plant processing animal products
• Grocery stores restaurants
• Consumers

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• Food Supply Continuum

Consumer
Producer
Food Service
Transportation
You!
Marketing
Retail
Processing
Harvesting
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Youth producers should understand

• Consumers have a right to expect a safe, healthy,
  and wholesome food supply.
• Every producer, regardless of farm size, has a
  responsibility to meet consumer expectations.
• Quality Assurance practices are beneficial to
  consumers, processors, producers, animals.
• Every producer, the livestock industry, and the
  4-H/FFA programs are affected when there is
  negative publicity about youth livestock projects
  and/or youth livestock shows/sales.

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Your Role in Quality Assurance

• Daily Care and Management
• Prevention (Disease and Harm)
• Handling (Carcass/Product Quality)
• Medication (Administering and Records)

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Daily Care and Management

• What is involved?

Identification Records
Housing Facilities
Feed
Water
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Prevention (Disease and Harm)

• Why.to provide higher quality product
• How
• Control visitor access to housing facility
• Prevent pet access to housing facility
• Prevent wildlife from entering housing facility
• Keep all equipment in proper working order
• Keep an eye out for other possible hazards

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Handling

• Why
• How an animal is treated and handled affects
• the animal (temperament and behaviorstress)
• the quality and quantity of meat
• the quality and quantity of other products (milk,
  eggs, fur, etc)
• What
• The proper techniques and methods of
• feeding and watering the animal
• giving injections (sites and types)
• moving and transporting the animal

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Medication

• Medication comes in the form of injections,
  pills, powders, and other purchased additives
• It is also found in most/many animal feeds
• Regardless of the form, the withdrawl time period
  must be observed (read label for time period)
• Label (feed tag or medicine instructions) will
  also specify how much to give and how often to
  give it
• Label will also state the purpose of the product

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Medicine Feed Labels

• The labels contain this valuable information

Warnings Withdrawal
Precautions
Expiration Date
Active Ingredient
Lot Number
Cautions
Trade Name
Dosage
Application Method
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Medication/Injections

• Whenever an injection (or other medication) is
  given to an animal, a written record should be
  kept
• The record should include
• the name and purpose of medication
• when/how much medication was given
• how it was given (injection, in water/feed, etc)
• if injectionwhere it was given on animal
• the withdrawl period and ending date of
  withdrawl period
• If an injection was used to give the medicine, it
  is important to know where it should be given to
  the animal.this is known as the injection site
  or sites

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Injections

• Many medications are available, and many of them
  have specific instructions/directions for
  injection
• Different types of injections.SQ, IM, IV.

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Injections Poultry Rabbits

• Do not give more than .5 to 1ml (also known as .5
  to 1cc) per injection/injection site
• More than this amount can cause swelling and
  other problems for the animal
• More than this amount will cause serious problems
  for meat/product quality

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Injection Sites

• It is important that injections are given in a
  place and manner so that minimum harm is done to
  the animal, quality/quantity of meat or other
  products
• For Rabbits.

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Injection Sites

• It is important that injections are given in a
  place and manner so that minimum harm is done to
  the animal, quality/quantity of meat or other
  products
• For Poultry.

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Injection Sites

• For Poultry.(schematic drawings/illustrations
  )
• Not Recommended Recommended
  

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REMEMBERQuality Assurance IS

• A promise from livestock producers and animal
  product processors to the consumersand this
  promise centers on
• Safe, healthy, and good tasting/beneficial
  products
• The food from our animals will be the highest
  possible quality and we will do everything we can
  to make these products (meat, eggs, fur, etc)
  safe, wholesome, and beneficial.

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Your Role in the QA Promise
(reviewing, learning, and following these
guidelines, will help keep our promise to
consumers)

• Daily Care and Management
• Prevention (Disease and Harm)
• Handling (Carcass/Product Quality)
• Medication (Administering and Records)

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Assuring Quality PQA Certified