Showing poultry at a county fair or a breed exhibition is one of the few poultry activities where the compliance question arrives on a fixed date, in public, with officials asking for paper. States require health evidence for exhibited birds for a straightforward reason: exhibitions bring birds from many premises into one building and send them home again. The record that satisfies the requirement is specific, and the deadline before the show is not flexible. Poultry Log's state catalogs carry the exhibition record requirements with their agencies, authorities, and official source links.
What the Exhibition Records Ask For
- Alabama - every chicken, turkey, or game bird exhibited in Alabama must be accompanied by an approved certificate or test chart showing NPIP Pullorum-Typhoid Clean origin or a negative Pullorum-Typhoid test within 90 days before the exhibition opens, under ADAI poultry health and biosecurity exhibition requirements. The certificate or test chart stays with the birds during the exhibition, and a copy is retained with the farm's movement and flock health records.
- Georgia - poultry shown at a public exhibition in Georgia must originate from a U.S. Pullorum-Typhoid Clean or equivalent flock or have a negative Pullorum-Typhoid test within 90 days before movement to the exhibition, under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 40-13-10-.03(1)(g). The catalog records that either qualifying clean-flock origin or a timely individual test satisfies this specific rule, and that import requirements still apply to birds entering Georgia.
- Connecticut - poultry exhibition health records carry avian-influenza test date and result fields alongside Pullorum-Typhoid testing, for birds shown at public exhibitions.
Why the 90-Day Window Decides Everything
Both Alabama's and Georgia's exhibition rules turn on the same deadline logic: the test must be negative within 90 days before the exhibition opens or the birds move. That means the test date is not a detail to be sorted out at the show; it is the planning constraint that determines when the birds get tested and when the paperwork gets assembled. A flock classified as Pullorum-Typhoid Clean carries that classification forward; a flock that needs an individual test carries the test window. In Poultry Log, the exhibition record captures the certificate or test chart reference, the test date and result, the flock or hatchery origin, and the exhibition details, so the deadline question is answered before the show rather than at the gate.
How Exhibition Records Connect to the Rest of the File
Exhibition records sit in the same compliance workspace as the farm's import health documents, NPIP participation records, and daily flock records, which matters because the show is usually one movement in a longer chain. A bird that goes to a show may also have entered the state under an import health document, and the review that follows a show question reads both records together. For processor network members, exhibition history is part of the same searchable compliance log the integrator audits.
What the Records Do Not Claim
An exhibition record documents the health evidence presented for the birds shown, as recorded. It does not certify that a flock meets a breeding program's standards beyond what the official test reports show, and completing a Poultry Log checklist does not certify legal compliance. The exhibition requirement itself comes from the state; the record's job is to make the evidence complete and timely.
Where Poultry Log Fits
Poultry Log's state catalogs carry the exhibition requirements with official source links and form templates, in the same workspace as the farm's other health records. The NPIP layer is covered in the NPIP participation records guide, import health documents in the avian influenza records guide, and state deep-dives in the Georgia guide and the Alabama guide. Confirm current exhibition requirements with your state department of agriculture before the show. Start free at poultrylog.com.
Frequently Asked Questions
What health records do poultry exhibitions require?
It depends on the state, but the shape is consistent: evidence of NPIP Pullorum-Typhoid Clean origin or a negative Pullorum-Typhoid test within 90 days before the exhibition opens. Alabama and Georgia both record the 90-day window; Connecticut's exhibition records also carry avian-influenza test date and result fields.
How close to a poultry show must Pullorum-Typhoid testing be done?
Alabama and Georgia both record the requirement as a negative test within 90 days before the exhibition opens or the birds move, which makes the test date the planning constraint. A flock classified as Pullorum-Typhoid Clean carries that classification forward instead.
Do exhibition requirements apply to birds entering from another state?
Yes, and they stack. Georgia's catalog records that import requirements still apply to birds entering the state in addition to the exhibition evidence rule, so a show trip across a state line involves both the entry health documents and the exhibition certificate or test chart.