Livestock Wala'au

MINI-S2 Ep 01 Workshops & Updates

March 31, 2022 Melelani Oshiro & Shannon Sand Season 2 Episode 1
Livestock Wala'au
MINI-S2 Ep 01 Workshops & Updates
Show Notes Transcript

Aloha and thank for tuning in to the MINI Livestock Wala'au! It's season 2 and we have lot's to share! In this mini-episode we will be discussing some brief updates for CTAHR , our Feedback Fest and upcoming workshops! Mahalo for listening & hope you will participate in providing feedback about our podcast!

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Shannon Sand:

Aloha Today's episode is brought to you by the Western extension Risk Management Education Center, USDA NIFA, and the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and the livestock extension group.

Melelani Oshiro:

Aloha welcome everyone to livestock Wala'au a podcast aim to provide educational support information, guidance and outreach to our livestock stakeholders in Hawaii. We are your hosts Mele Oshiro and Shannon. And today, we're going to discuss some upcoming activities, poultry health updates, and also just update you on some other stuff going on and CTAHR. And I get asked for your help on another feedback. Yeah, so we'll start with some updates from you h and the COVID guidelines are changing or have changed, I should say as of March 26. So there are some areas that mask are no longer required. However, they still are required if you're indoors, classrooms, shared laboratories and instructional spaces. Or if you're in tightly confined areas where we're doing educational workshops or lectures, you are still required to have a mask on. And also, of course, if you are positive for COVID-19, or any symptoms, you also need to of course have a mask on.

Shannon Sand:

Thank goodness where we're negative right now.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, well will post the guidelines as well for the new H COVID updates and whatnot in our show notes. So you can review those if you're coming to campus or any of the offices, masks are no longer required in some of the other common areas outdoors. One thing that is not going to require now is having to check in and having our visitors provide let me say for Luma site and proof of vaccination or negative test results or whatnot before coming to campus event. We're sort of sort of being able to be back to kind of

Shannon Sand:

normal, I would say whatever I say we're going into a new normal, yeah, rather than kind of normal. But I think the biggest thing is to just check the guidelines, we will list them in the show notes in description box here. And if they choose to, like you want to make sure you're checking them, because we don't know what the future is gonna hold at this point. I think everybody feels that way. It's

Melelani Oshiro:

always best to check. But yes, that's as of March 26. Those were the current updates that we have. Another update we have is with our ATS see. So the agriculture diagnostic service center is having some changes due to staffing that is retiring, that used to account for a lot of the analysis that was performed there. So there is going to be a lot of changes, and changes to the price list as well as the testing that and analysis that is provided is

Shannon Sand:

currently done, especially because there's currently still a hiring freeze at you Ah, so I think until that sort of can be figured out or they can figure out how to hire someone that's going to be Yeah, something again. And we'll also list all this stuff in the in the show, yeah,

Melelani Oshiro:

we'll put the updated list and stuff. But in general, you're pretty much here. So samples, you're feeding for ages, anything that does analysis of minerals, or any type of other constituents in there, they will not be able to run at this point, I just Yeah, at this point in time, and we don't have an anticipated date when they will be able to run it. If you're always if you're wanting to submit any type of forage or soil or anything that you want tested as best to work with an extension agent. So whether you're dealing with livestock or you know, if you have friends that are in crop production, to let them know that these changes are out there and contact an extension agent or the office. And we can let you know what the updates are for the pricing and what types of options there are for you if you need to have something tested.

Shannon Sand:

Yeah, yeah. And we are still running our feedback fest, which we're really trying to get some feedback on. So if you could fill the the feedback evaluation out, we would greatly appreciate it. And it's very important for us to continue doing this programming throughout the next year. So that we get feedback, I know kind of, we're headed in the right direction, or if you want other, you know, if you want us to expand beyond even livestock or something like that, or if you want us to include more about different production practices, maybe alternative ones, you know, again, we really would appreciate the feedback that you guys can provide.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, even if you have somebody in mind that you feel, you know, or there's some event going on, yes, that's coming. We're happy to like tell people about that. And share even, you know, reach out to other folks that you know, provide some good information. So coming up this month, yeah, so much stuff coming up this month. As we've seen as things are opening up, we're able to have a little bit more in person. So we have coming up a swine workshop in health lecture that we're coming up April the week of April. fourth, through the eighth, and we're going through different to three different sites. So kawaii, a Oahu and Big Island. So if you'd like to get more information about that, we'll put the links for the flyer and the registration is all open right now. And it's it's a veterinary service grant program that's supporting this workshop. So the workshops open is limited because it's only open to veterinarians or to technicians and any other health professionals as well as extension. If you are interested in that, definitely look into the links that we provide or you can even contact us. But the health lectures are open to the public. So it's open to everybody. It will be in Hilo on the Big Island, April 7, they are going to be in a wahoo I believe on the sixth and kawaii will be on the fourth. Yeah, so I didn't went backwards with that. Sorry, I'm getting. We're hitting kawaii first. And for many swine producers, you know that that's a biosecurity reason that we do that because koi is purse free. So we have a veterinary veterinarian that's going to be visiting, that's coming over. He's a specialist, swine specialist, also have a retired spine specialist, Dr. Z, that's going to be here. So I look forward to seeing everybody in person again and getting to get some good information from these folks. And we actually will have our upcoming episode. I was gonna say yeah, we got Dr. Pets comm Dr. pet snake calm. You, I think, Yep, he's our keynote speaker and visiting swine specialists that will be here for these workshops. So he'll also be on our next podcasts or that's coming up in a few days. Cool. Yeah, it was really nice. So much like knowledge, because he's done stuff all over the world. Yeah. With swine. So it's really interesting perspective. Yeah. And he's been here for a few times, you know, and down in the Pacific, very familiar with our local hog producers and production practices here. I look forward for that. And one other thing coming up in April, kind of tentatively right now is another livestock extension group. Workshop, that's going to happen April 22. To the 23rd. The details are still being worked on and locations. So it's just a tentative right now. And hopefully, as well, I have Island. Yeah, it's likely going to be located on the Big Island, and most likely in como la. If you're available that weekend, and you want more information, we'll continue to update our workshop and fill days page on our website to include the information for that.

Shannon Sand:

Could it should be good because I was like, I know he's trying to get a couple of people over here. Yeah, we'll have some,

Melelani Oshiro:

some web session to decision tools. We also have some other demos with some of the other equipment that we received, you know, during the pandemic that we couldn't have workshops for, or looking for. There's a couple opportunities to get in person. You still haven't Yeah, do you stuff in person, personal people with real people. So a couple of CTAHR workshops that are coming up. The next update we have for all your poultry folks up there. This comes from our Extension Veterinarian, Dr. gennaio, Donnie, highly pathogenic avian influenza HPA AI is spreading in poultry farms across the country in the mainland us. And the good news is is not yet here in Hawaii. Again, I repeat it is not in Hawaii. Yeah. But we do want to make people aware of what this virus is how it's spreading across the country very quickly, the elements that kind of cause the spread, right and the things that you need to put into place in your biosecurity right, even before it did exactly so there's a few links if you're not familiar with defend the flock program, it's a program run by USDA looking at biosecurity on your poultry farms and you know, get the information from there and just kind of review your farm and it just helps you to know how to be properly and best defend your flock against this virus and it's provided you know, in multiple languages, you know, share it with people if you're not a poultry producer, but you know somebody that has some Yeah, it looks like it's an English Spanish Mandarin. Yeah, believe Tagalog. Yeah, and Vietnamese as well. So yeah, so share the information with them if you guys don't have access to internet and you say hey, and when I want the flyers or whatever, call the office, call myself or Shannon, we're more than happy to print that for you. Yeah. And get that information out to you. If you ever have sick chickens to their showing any type of like respiratory signs or diarrhea or their neurologic, you know, are what contact me and I can put you into contact with the person that you need to be you know, especially its Department of Agriculture is where you want to contact because they're going to want to know what's going on and just kind of get the history from you. So feel free to reach out to me I'll put you in contact with the correct person Dr. Gao, Donnie is another person will have all the links and contact information for everybody but again, so this you know, the highly pathogenic avian influenza HPI is is is spreading across the mainland us, but it's not here yet in Hawaii. Well, we do want to do things ahead of time and be proactive about protecting your flocks back, whether it's a backyard flock or your commercial flock, think about those types of things that you can put into your biosecurity plan now to kind of prevent, it's not it's not picky, it doesn't just go poultry or chickens, you know, it's it's just avian. So birds in general, so our wild bird population are all vulnerable, are all going to be vulnerable to this, if it ever gets here to Hawaii, be cognizant about things and if you have a sick animals in your flock or whatnot, reach out and have somebody work with you to try and figure out what's going on.

Shannon Sand:

Yeah, so there's a lot of National Livestock days. I'll be honest, in April, we looked these up, and I think I missed one or two, because I've done kind of a stretch, but I'm like, you know, but there were a lot of national related livestock days, starting with April 4, which is National Chicken court on blue day, and I love chicken.

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah, that's yummy. I haven't been the first time I tried that was when I was living in New Zealand. Yeah. I

Shannon Sand:

haven't had it in like a while. Yeah, I mean, I was here like, you can buy it everywhere. Just about

Melelani Oshiro:

Yeah. And April 5, National deep dish pizza day. So that sounds great. Yes.

Shannon Sand:

It is always great. Right. April 10. Is national farm animals day, right.

Melelani Oshiro:

I thought it was that's a very, very important April and April 11. National cheese fondue day.

Shannon Sand:

April 12 is one of my favorite National Days national grilled cheese dare be

Melelani Oshiro:

thankful for our dairy or dairy men and women out there in April 15, National spiral ham day, why that's Easter day. So that's our very close, not Easter itself, but it's false.

Shannon Sand:

April 16 is national eggs benedict.

Melelani Oshiro:

And April 24. National pigs in the blanket day.

Shannon Sand:

And then last but not least April 27. Is national prime rib day. Yeah.

Melelani Oshiro:

And April 29. National shrimp scampi day. That's also a good day, I think we should just combine the 27th than the 29th and just have primary.

Shannon Sand:

So And with that, make sure to join our Facebook page, the livestock extension group. If you haven't already, be sure to visit the U H. CTAHR. Extension website and our YouTube channel listed in the show notes right.

Melelani Oshiro:

For additional information about this and any of the topics or if you want to send us some comments, send us an email at Wala'au at hawaii.edu. Thanks for listening to livestock fallout.

Shannon Sand:

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Melelani Oshiro:

thanks again to our sponsors the Western extension Risk Management Education Center, USDA NIFA and the livestock extension group and CTAHR. We

Shannon Sand:

hope you