Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Title 302 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Chapter 21 - Livestock
Section 302 KAR 21:001 - Definitions for 302 KAR Chapter 21
Universal Citation: 302 KY Admin Regs Service 21:001
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 246.420, 256.010, 257.160, 257.196, 525.130, 7 U.S.C. 2131-2159
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 257.196 requires the Board of Agriculture to promulgate administrative regulations establishing on-farm livestock and poultry care standards recommended to it by the Kentucky Livestock Care Standards Commission. This administrative regulation establishes the definitions for 302 KAR Chapter 21.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Ambulatory
disabled" means being capable of walking, but with a physical impairment that
severely limits or threatens the ability to walk.
(2) "Distress" means a condition that occurs
when livestock or poultry are injured, sick, or in physical pain.
(3) "Euthanasia" means the act of putting an
animal to death by methods specified as acceptable for that species by the 2007
Report of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Panel on
Euthanasia, incorporated by reference in
302 KAR
21:020.
(4) "Handling" means the moving or confining
of livestock or poultry for management practices, relocating, loading, or
unloading.
(5) "Housing" means
space used to shelter or confine livestock and poultry.
(6) "Management practices" means procedures
in livestock and poultry production to improve animal health, reproduction,
comfort, safety, productivity, and product acceptability.
(7) "Non-ambulatory disabled" means being
unable to rise from a recumbent position or being unable to walk.
(8) "Responsible party" means a person who is
the owner of the livestock or poultry or a person who has current
responsibility of custody of the livestock or poultry.
(9) "Soring" means:
(a)
1. An
irritating or blistering agent has been applied, internally or externally, by a
person to a limb of a horse;
2. A
burn, cut, or laceration has been inflicted by a person on a limb of a
horse;
3. A tack, nail, screw, or
chemical agent has been injected by a person into or used by a person on a limb
of a horse; or
4. Any other
substance or device has been used by a person on a limb of a horse or a person
has engaged in a practice involving a horse; and
(b)
1. As a
result of the application, infliction, injection, use, or practice, the horse
suffers, or can reasonably be expected to suffer, physical pain or distress,
inflammation, or lameness if walking, trotting, or otherwise moving;
and
2. Shall not include an
application, infliction, injection, use, or practice in connection with the
therapeutic treatment of a horse by or under the supervision of a person
licensed to practice veterinary medicine.
(10) "Veal" means a young bovine harvested at
or under 750 pounds, and fed for the purpose of veal meat production.
(11) "Veterinarian-client-patient
relationship" is defined by
KRS
321.185.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 257.196
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