New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 8 - HUMANE TREATMENT OF DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 2:8-1.3 - General provisions

(a) The permanent identification of individual animals may be performed by a knowledgeable individual by wing-banding, leg-banding, ear-notching, ear tattooing, electronic transponders and branding as recommended in the Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching, Federation of Animal Science Societies, third edition, 2010 and described in Handbook of Livestock Management, Battaglia, fourth edition, 2007, which are adopted and incorporated by reference. Identification of animals by group, cage or pen may be permitted.

(b) Animal waste management shall be performed pursuant to the NJDA's animal waste management rules, N.J.A.C. 2:91 or the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation rule, 7:14A-2.1 3.

(c) Fencing materials should be selected to contain an area while minimizing potential injury based on the number, age and temperament of the animals on the premises and the amount of land fenced.

(d) Restraint of livestock and poultry may be performed by a knowledgeable individual as taught at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Science in Livestock Production and Management; at Centenary College; at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in Behavior, Husbandry and Diagnostic Techniques; and as described in the Handbook of Livestock Management, Battaglia, fourth edition, 2007, which restraints as taught and which Handbook are adopted and incorporated by reference.

(e) Castration may be performed by a knowledgeable individual as recommended in the Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching, Federation of Animal Science Societies, third edition, 2010 and described in the Handbook of Livestock Management, Battaglia, fourth edition, 2007, which recommendations and descriptions are adopted and incorporated by reference.

(f) Disbudding and dehorning may be performed by a knowledgeable individual as recommended in the Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching, Federation of Animal Science Societies, third edition, 2010 and described in the Handbook of Livestock Management, Battaglia, fourth edition, 2007, which recommendations and descriptions are adopted and incorporated by reference.