Ohio Administrative Code
Title 901:1 - Animal Industry
Chapter 901:1-23 - Livestock Marketing
Section 901:1-23-02 - Movement of swine from livestock auction markets and livestock concentration markets
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 901:1-23-02
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Swine over two hundred pounds:
(1) No person shall release or move any swine
weighing over two hundred pounds from a livestock auction market or livestock
concentration market unless:
(a) The swine
are moved for immediate slaughter; or
(b) The swine are moved for breeding purposes
and comply with all of the following:
(i)
Originate immediately and directly from a qualified pseudorabies negative herd;
(ii) Originate from an Ohio county
that is stage IV status or higher; or
(iii) Be accompanied to the market with
evidence of a negative pseudorabies test which was conducted within forty-five
days of the date of arrival at the market; and
(iv) Have received veterinary inspection and
have been identified as prescribed by the department; and
(v) The swine are moved directly from the
market to their point of final destination.
(2) The swine (excluding sows or gilts which
are bred or with pigs by their side) move to a quarantined sow feedlot, located
on a premises where no breeding swine exist, following veterinary inspection
and identification as prescribed by the department. The swine, except sows
originating from Ohio, shall be vaccinated prior to release from the livestock
market in accordance with rule
901:1-11-04 of the
Administrative Code. No person shall move any swine regardless of weight to a
quarantined sow feedlot unless they are vaccinated in the market or within
twenty-four hours after arrival at the quarantined feedlot in accordance with
rule
901:1-1-04
of the Administrative Code. The veterinarian or other person administering the
vaccine must report the vaccination of those animals on a form obtained from
the Ohio department of agriculture and return to the department within seven
days listing the name and address of the owner or bailee, number of doses, the
name of the vaccine and the eartag numbers of the swine vaccinated. No person
shall move swine from a quarantined sow feedlot except for immediate slaughter
and such swine shall be accompanied with an owner shipper statement containing
the identification of the animals.
(B) Swine weighing two hundred pounds or less:
(1) No person shall move or release any
swine weighing two hundred pounds or less from a livestock auction market or a
livestock concentration market unless:
(a)
The swine have been inspected by a veterinary inspector and identified with a
blue metal eartag prior to movement; and
(i)
The swine are either moved directly to their point of final destination or they
are moved within twenty-four hours of sale to a second Ohio livestock auction
market or livestock concentration market for the sole purpose of consolidation
for transportation and moved directly from there to their final point of
destination; or
(ii) The
department of agriculture has granted written permission to sell the swine at a
second livestock auction market or livestock concentration market within the
same business organization. Persons to whom written permission is granted shall
move the swine to and sell them at the second market within forty-eight hours
after arrival at the first market. Swine sold or moved under this provision can
only originate from a county with no pseudorabies quarantines. Feeder or
breeder swine shall not remain in the livestock market for more than
seventy-two hours.
(b)
The swine are sold designated for immediate slaughter. Slaughter swine shall
not remain in the market for more than one hundred twenty hours.
(2) Swine moved under authority of
paragraph (B)(1)(a) of this rule upon arrival at their point of final
destination shall be quarantined to that premises until sold for immediate
slaughter, except that:
(a) Swine may be
released from quarantine not less than thirty days following arrival if they
are tested and classed negative to an official test for pseudorabies; or
(b) Swine not excepted by
paragraph (B)(2)(a) of this rule may move from quarantine by written permit
from the Ohio department of agriculture; or
(c) They may be exhibited under paragraph
(A)(2)(c) of rule
901:1-18-10 of the
Administrative Code.
(C) Swine originating from a pseudorabies infected herd.
(1) Swine from a pseudorabies
infected herd moving to immediate slaughter through a livestock slaughter
assembly market shall only move through a market where the individual
responsible for day to day operations has executed, under
9 CFR
71.20. an agreement to handle pseudorabies
reactor, suspect, or exposed swine
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