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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A enactment of carnal shows scheduled for the Big Fresno Fair adjacent period person been canceled owed to concerns surrounding the dispersed of avian flu.
Fair officials announced connected Friday that each lactating cattle shows and onsite dairy shows were canceled owed to ongoing concerns astir Avian Influenza (HPAI). The Big Fresno Fair says the determination was made successful collaboration with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, pursuing further affirmative tests astatine Central Valley dairies.
According to the Big Fresno Fair, each lactating cattle shows are canceled, including dairy beverage cattle classes for cows 2 years oregon older and presently successful milk, arsenic good arsenic the fair’s milking demonstrations.
Instead of the onsite dairy shows, the Big Fresno Fair volition determination to an online merchantability of its Dairy Replacement Heifers (in a akin benignant to however income operated during the COVID-19 pandemic) connected Oct. 5. Fair organizers accidental immoderate exhibitors who privation to retreat from the present online merchantability whitethorn bash truthful without charge. More accusation for participants can beryllium recovered here.
Fair unit accidental the determination to cancel the shows was made "for the information of these animals and the dairy industry, arsenic good arsenic successful the champion involvement of these students."
Despite concerns astir Avian Influenza (HPAI) with cows, Big Fresno Fair organizers accidental Avian Influenza (HPAI) does not airs a menace to different taxon exhibiting astatine the just - meaning the different livestock events volition proceed arsenic scheduled.
