Voluntary Herd Certification Program

The objective of the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Voluntary Herd Certification Program is to provide owners with the opportunity to have their herds identified as elite with respect to CWD. Membership in the certification program provides assurances to potential purchasers of animals that a purchase from a herd with the same level has the same risk of being infected with CWD. The level of assurance of CWD freedom depends on the length of time the herd has been enrolled in the program. Any owner of elk or deer premises who agrees to comply with the provisions outlined in the CWD Voluntary Herd Certification Program may enroll.

There are six levels in the certification program, from the entry level, Level E, to the highest level, certified. A minimum of five years is necessary for an enrolled herd to reach the certified level.

As the national administrator of the program, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency makes a national list of enrolled herds and their status, updated quarterly.

Chronic Wasting Disease Voluntary Herd Certification – enrolled herds by province

• British Columbia
• Government of Alberta
• Government of Quebec - Programme de certification relatif à la maladie débilitante chronique chez les cervidés - PDF (63 kb) available in french only
• Government of Saskatchewan
• Government of Yukon
• Ontario

Please note: These tables are updated quarterly (March, June, September, December).

British Columbia

Farm	Producer	Species	Status	As of annual anniversary date
ReputAbel Game Farm	Ken and Dawn Abel	Reindeer	Certified	February 4, 2012

Ontario

Farm	Producer	Species	Status	As of annual anniversary date
Big Dipper Whitetail	Stephen Yantzi	Whitetails	Certified	May 2, 2010
Bushland Acres	Robert Landis	Whitetails	Level C	March 12, 2011
Chesher's Worldclass Whitetails	Bill Chesher	Whitetails	Level B	April 16, 2010
Eastern Ontario Whitetail	Danny Gillard	Whitetails	Certified	March 19, 2011
Fawn Meadows Farm	John Kerkvliet	Whitetails	Certified	February 1, 2010
Herron Whitetails	Donald Herron	Whitetails	Certified	April 9, 2011
Lefler Deer Farm	Sherwood Lefler	Whitetails	Certified	April 4, 2011
Longview Stock Farm	Dr. John Pollard and Dr. Claire Plante	Elk	Certified	January 25, 2011
Orr Lake Acres	Philip Stafford	Elk	Certified	April 25, 2011
Rainy River Elk Company	Dr. William Darby	Elk	Certified	Novermber 24, 2010
Regal Point Elk Farms	Dale and Eric Robinson	Elk	Certified	January 14, 2011
Sherwood's Reindeer Farm	Garth and Louise Sherwood	Reindeer	Certified	May 10, 2011
Wolf Creek Whitetails	Wayne Vanderwoude	Whitetails	Level A	April 3, 2011
Yurtland Red Deer Farms	Erica Yurt	Red Deer	Certified	March 5, 2010