Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
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.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
3:2093.
