Check In Procedure and some Thoughts on Biosecurity

Welcome to the 2012 A-OK Alpaca BlastOff.  We want your Check-in experience to be as easy and hassle-free as possible.  To make sure this happens, please read the following carefully, print it out, and have it with you.

• Check-in Friday 10:00AM to 7:00PM - NOTE: If you realize that you will be late checking in on Friday night, please call Kim Tollers at 608-214-8100 to make arrangements for Vet and Color Check.

• Be sure you have your Health Papers (Certificate Of Veterinary Inspection).  Oklahoma does NOT require TB/Brucellosis testing for this show.  Bring the Original and one copy.  Your CVI must include:
  
         1.  Each alpaca's Full Registered Name as it appears on the ARI Certificate and Microchip Number      entered and signed by your Vet
         2.  Negative BVDV Test result, including the type of test, testing lab, and date of test entered and signed by your Vet. This test MUST be a PCR type if done after 1/1/2010.  If done prior to 1/1/2010, VI (Virus Isolation) is acceptable.
  
          NOTE: Just because Oklahoma does not require TB/Brucellosis testing for entry, YOUR STATE may require this for re-entry!  Check your own state requirements BEFORE you leave for this show.

• Not Required but Recommended: copy of ARI Certificate(s) and BVDV Test Results.

• The Expo Center is 3.7 mile South of I-40, on Hwy 177.

• Enter the Expo Center off Hwy 177 at the Leo Road exit (there is a traffic light). - See the Map below.

• Follow the Check-in signs.  You will pull between the two large building.  The white building on your right is our show site.  Pull forward to the Covered Entrance to Building "C".

• The Health Check Team will check your animals' microchips and health papers on your trailer.  Please have a COPY of your health papers available for check-in, along with your Original, and be available to help manage your animals during the microchip check.  We will keep the copy of your health papers.  Once checked, you will be given your "pink sheet" signifying that you have completed the health check, and can now be color checked.

• Have your alpacas color checked as quickly as possible, BEFORE you go to your stalls. Once this is done, you will receive your registration packet and exhibitor numbers.  At this time you will be required to resolve any money owed. 

• Take your alpacas to your assigned stalls.

• As soon as possible, pull your trailer around the buildings clockwise to the East side of the Expo Center. This is the best time to unload your equipment.  There are six large doors on the East side of the Expo.  Locate the one nearest your stalls and move your trailer close to it and unload your equipment.

• Once unloaded, move your trailer to trailer parking on the OUTER EAST SIDE.  There is A LOT of room.  Trailer parking must be in the designated area only.  Please do not park trailers close to the Expo Center.  Those spaces are for exhibitor's vehicles, and public spectators.

•   Animal Stalls are 10 x 10 aluminum.  Bales of shredded cardboard bedding will be provided for each animal stall.  Additional bedding will be available for purchase.  It is highly recommended that you bring mats to place on top of the cardboard bedding.  This makes clean-up much easier and keeps your alpacas free from getting the cardboard in their fleece.

• Stall assignments will be made to minimize nose-to-nose contact between farms.  However, this is a  Level III show and we expect 300 alpacas.  You may wish to consider hanging a barrier such as a tarp or drape to minimize contact.  Also, many exhibitors are now making liberal use of hand sanitizers for themselves and visitors to their stalls.

If you are staying in the RV Park, it is immediately to the northwest of the North barn (straight ahead and to the left).  We hope you will find this show and facility as friendly and exciting as we think it can be.