La. Admin. Code tit. 7 § XXI-705

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XXI-705 - Quarantined Cattle Feedlots (Formerly Section 325)

A. Permit Required. No person may operate a quarantined cattle feedlot without first obtaining a permit from the Livestock Sanitary Board. Any person operating a cattle feedlot without a valid permit will be in violation of this regulation and subject to prosecution.

B. Conditions for Issuing a Quarantined Feedlot Permit

1. The operation must not constitute a health hazard to livestock on surrounding premises, or create a public nuisance.

2. The operator must agree to abide by the provisions of this regulation and all other regulations of the Livestock Sanitary Board and United States Department of Agriculture governing such operations and movements.

C. Requirements for Operation of Quarantined Feedlots

1. All cattle must be maintained separately and apart from all other cattle. There can be no fence line contact with cattle not in the quarantined feedlot. An exception to this regulation are steers and spayed heifers.

2. Complete records must be maintained on all transactions showing dates, identification, origin and disposition of each animal. These records shall be made available to state-federal personnel upon receipt.

3. All male and female cattle except steers and spayed heifers must be "S" branded prior to or on arrival at the feedlot.

4. Necessary facilities and personnel shall be provided to enable state-federal personnel to "S" brand cattle and to determine the identification of animals that are being permitted to a slaughter establishment, quarantined feedlot, or to a stockyard to be sold for slaughter or to another quarantined feedlot.

5. All cattle movements from a quarantined feedlot must be on a Form VS 1-27 or similar document issued by state-federal personnel and shall be consigned directly to a slaughtering establishment operating under approved state or federal meat inspection, to a quarantined feedlot, to a stockyard to be sold to a slaughter establishment or to a quarantined feedlot.

6. All tuberculosis exposed animals shall be fed and maintained as a group and shall not be allowed to mix with other animals in the feedlot.

7. Feeder calves under 12 months of age from tuberculosis quarantined herds will be required to be negative to a tuberculin test within 60 days prior to shipment to the feedlot.

8. Animals will be permitted to Louisiana livestock auction markets for sale for slaughter or to a quarantined feedlot provided no tuberculosis exposed animals are received or fed on feedlot premises.

D. Cancellation of Quarantined Feedlot Permit. A quarantined feedlot permit may be canceled upon written notice that the operation does not meet the requirements of this regulation, or has violated one or more provisions of this regulation.

La. Admin. Code tit. 7, § XXI-705

Promulgated by the Department of Agriculture, Livestock Sanitary Board, LR 11:241 (March 1985), amended LR 11:615 (June 1985), repromulgated by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Office of Animal Health and Food Safety and the Board of Animal Health, LR 40:949 (May 2014).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 3:2093.