MSU Extension Fair and Exhibition Animal Health

Protect your projects from illness. 

• Change your shoes when going into and leaving your barn or housing area, or wear protective boot covers. 
• Do not allow friends to visit your animals unless they have on clean clothes and shoes and have washed their hands. 
• Clean your hands. Wash them with soap and hot water before and after handling your animals. 
• Have separate clothes and shoes just for working with your animals. 
• Clean boots and equipment, such as feeders and waterers, with soap and hot water or disinfectant. 
• Keep animals that have been at the fair away from others for 30 days. 
• Use separate equipment for animals that were at the fair and those left at home. 
• If your animals from fair show symptoms of illness, call your local veterinarian.