Exhibits in this department may consist of live animals or projects without live animals.

1. (1) Project entry classes. Premiums may be paid all exhibits in pars. (a) and (b) in the following level one amounts.

   1. (a) Projects without live animals. This category includes charts, displays, posters, equipment or other projects involving animal and veterinary science which to do not include live animals.
   2. (b) Adventures in dairyland projects. This category includes posters, charts, displays, and projects. The fair board may designate this exhibit as either a dairy cattle class or an animal and veterinary science class, but not both.

   Premium level one   $1.75 1.50 1.25 1.00

2. (2) Live special interest animal entry classes. A fair may establish entry classes for special interest animals, including caged birds, reptiles, rodents, cavies, and small indoor pets, for which no other class has been established. A class established under this subsection shall include at least 6 entries of the same species, except that a fair may establish a class of “any other animals” which may include more than one species and fewer than 6 animals per species. Suggested classes for caged birds and cavies are set forth in pars. (a) and (b). For each class established under this subsection, a fair may receive state aid for first-place to fourth-place premiums of $2.00, $1.75, $.150 and $1.25, respectively.

   1. (a) Suggested classes for cage birds. Each of the classes listed in this paragraph may be divided into separate classes for adult males and adult females. Young birds that do not have plumage may not be exhibited.

      1. 1. Hard bills including finches, canaries and weavers
      2. 2. Soft bills including mynas, jays and toucans
      3. 3. Psittacinses (parrot and parrot-like birds)

   2. (b) Suggested classes for cavies.

      1. 1. Breed classes

         1. a. American
         2. b. Abyssinian
         3. c. Peruvian
         4. d. Crested
         5. e. Teddy
         6. f. Any other recognized breed

      2. 2. Sub-categories of cavy classes; each of the breeds under subd. 1. may be divided into separate boar and sow classes as well as the following age and weight groupings.

         1. a. Young; up to 4 months of age and less than 22 ounces
         2. b. Intermediate; 4 to 6 months old and 22 to 30 ounces
         3. c. Old; over 6 months of age and over 30 ounces.

History

History: Cr. Register, November, 1990, No. 419, eff. 12-1-90; r. and recr. (2) (intro.); r. (2) (a); renum. (2) (b) and (c) to be (2) (a) and (b), Register, July, 1995, No. 475, eff. 8-1-95; CR 21-093: am. (1) (a), (b), (2) Register September 2022 No. 801, eff. 10-1-22.