Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Title 302 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Chapter 20 - Livestock Sanitation
Section 302 KAR 20:055 - Brucellosis vaccination, testing and branding requirements
Universal Citation: 302 KY Admin Regs Service 20:055
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS Chapter 257, 257.020, 257.030, 257.040, 257.060, 257.070, 257.115
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: To specify the requirements for vaccination against the disease brucellosis, and to define the requirements for testing or branding.
Section 1. Vaccination and Branding Protocol.
(1) Female animals which are vaccinated shall
be officially vaccinated between four (4) and ten (10) months of age with an
approved reduced dosage Brucella vaccine and identified by a vaccination tattoo
in the ear and an official vaccination ear tag, or, in the case of registered
cattle, by an identification tattoo.
(a)
Vaccination tattoo shall be placed in the right ear and shall legibly identify
the quarter of the year, shield and the calendar year of vaccination.
(b) Official vaccination ear tag shall be
placed in the right ear and shall identify the animal according to the state of
origin, official vaccinate status and individual identification
number.
(2) Animals
shall be vaccinated, branded, or tested by, or under the supervision of, a
licensed, accredited veterinarian or by an authorized agent of the board or by
authorized federal personnel (i.e., includes "S" branding).
(3) Official documentations of the above
listed procedures shall be promptly conveyed to the office of the state
veterinarian on appropriate forms provided by same.
(4) Animals on Kentucky farms or changing
ownership on a Kentucky farm may be vaccinated with funds appropriated by the
Commonwealth of Kentucky if available.
(5) No person shall tamper with the
vaccination tattoo or official vaccination ear tag, and no person shall
retattoo any animal unless approval is first obtained from the Kentucky State
Veterinarian or from Kentucky's area veterinarian in charge (AVIC). No person
shall tamper with an official brand, ear tag or other individual animal
identification device.
(6) Location
of brands: "S" on the face or hip, "open spade" on the hip.
Section 2. Procedure Requirements.
(1)
(a)
Sexually intact females twelve (12) months of age or older shall be negative to
an official brucellosis test within thirty (30) days prior to change of
ownership, unless the cattle:
1. Originate
directly from a brucellosis certified free herd;
2. Are official calfhood vaccinates of the
dairy breed, less than twenty (20) months of age;
3. Are official calfhood vaccinates of the
beef breeds less than twenty-four (24) months of age;
4. Are open heifers less than eighteen (18)
months of age designated for feeding purposes; or
5. Are identified with an "S" brand and
moving directly to recognized slaughter facilities or to designated quarantined
feedlots in states approving this movement.
(b) Diversion of "feeder" heifers for use as
breeding animals without meeting applicable test requirements shall be a
violation of this administrative regulation.
(2) Female bovine animals sold through a
Kentucky livestock market when eligible shall be identified as to farm of
origin.
(3) Fattened heifers,
intended for slaughter only, or consigned directly to a slaughter facility must
meet federal requirements.
(4)
Spayed heifers may move freely in Kentucky, when in compliance with appropriate
movement certification. Such heifers are identified with an "open spade"
brand.
(5) Approved livestock
assembly facility. These facilities shall be approved by the Department of
Agriculture and be designated only for cattle assemblage. Vaccination, testing
or branding requirements shall be met prior to release of animals from these
facilities, and records of state and farm of origins shall be kept by the
operators. Animals imported into Kentucky and remaining in Kentucky after
entering an approved livestock assembly facility shall also meet Kentucky's
entry requirements
302 KAR
20:040. Animals tested for brucellosis by the
designated veterinarian shall remain at the facility until the results are
known negative.
(6) The test
eligible age of eighteen (18) months shall be determined by the loss of the
first pair of temporary incisor teeth.
(7) The test eligible age for official
calfhood vaccinated females of dairy breeds shall be twenty (20) months of age
and shall be determined by the partial eruption of the first pair of permanent
incisors (twenty (20) months of age or older).
(8) The test eligible age for official
calfhood vaccinated females of beef breeds shall be twenty-four (24) months of
age and shall be determined by the first pair of permanent incisors fully
erupted (two (2) years of age or older).
(9) Heavy springers or cows postpartum shall
be tested eligible regardless of age.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 257.020, 257.030
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