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  • Pseudorabies - Kentucky is Stage V

  • Brucellosis - Kentucky is a Free State

  • Garbage Feeding

Feeding Garbage to swine is illegal.  It is one of the ways to spread Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD).  FMD is a severe, highly communicable viral disease of cattle and swine.  This country has been free of FMD since 1929, when the last of nine U.S. outbreaks was eradicated.

Garbage Feeding Brochure

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The following swine shall not be imported into KY for any purpose:

  1. Garbage Fed Swine
  2. Swine vaccinated with Pseudorabies vaccine or
  3. Wild, captive wild or feral swine, Sus scrofa per definition, including Russian wild boars or Eurasian wild boars.