New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 8 - HUMANE TREATMENT OF DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK
Subchapter 2 - STANDARDS FOR CATTLE
Section 2:8-2.4 - Keeping
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) The animal's environment must provide relief from the elements, such as excessive wind, excessive temperature and excessive precipitation, that result in hyperthermia or hypothermia detrimental to the animal's health.
(b) Relief under (a) above can be accomplished with natural features of the environment including, but not limited to, trees, land windbreaks, overhangs, or other natural weather barriers or constructed shelters.
(c) Where constructed shelters are provided, they shall:
(d) If enclosed yards are used to contain cattle, the following conditions shall be met:
(e) Constructed floor surfaces on which animals are kept must provide footing that minimizes injury to the animals.
(f) Bedding or matting, if used, shall provide an environment that supports animal health.
(g) Nothing in these rules shall prohibit the use of tethers to feed and monitor individual cattle, to prevent oral-fecal and urine contamination, and to prevent injury resulting from interaction amongst cattle. Tethers must be long enough to permit the cattle to stand, eat, rest in a natural sternal posture or with their head and neck turned to the side of their body, and allow movement forward and backward, yet be short enough to prevent strangulation.
(h) For cattle intended to be raised as Special-Fed veal, the NJDA adopts and incorporates by reference the recommendations for rearing and housing outlined in the Guide for the Care and Production of Veal Calves, Sixth Edition 2001 (American Veal Association, Inc., Middletown, PA 17507) as amended and supplemented.
(i) A copy of the Guide for the Care and Production of Veal Calves (Sixth Edition 2001) is on file in the Director's Office, Division of Animal Health, NJDA, Health and Agriculture Building, John Fitch Plaza, Trenton, New Jersey 08625. Copies may be procured by contacting the American Veal Association, 1500 Fulling Mill Road, Middletown, PA 17057. Phone: (717) 985-9125; Fax: (717) 985-9127; Email: