Ohio Administrative Code
Title 901:12 - Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board
Chapter 901:12-1 - Euthanasia
Section 901:12-1-05 - Acceptable euthanasia methods for specific species
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 901:12-1-05
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Equine (horse)
(1) Acceptable euthanasia methods:
penetrating captive bolt, gunshot, barbiturates.
(2) Sites for physical methods:
(a) Frontal - the gun or penetrating captive
bolt is directed at
the point
of the intersection of
imaginary diagonal lines taken from the
outer corner of the eye to the top of the
opposite ear.
(b)
Temporal (side) - the gun is directed at a ninety degree angle to the head at a
point midway between the eye and the base of the ear.
(B) Poultry
Acceptable euthanasia methods:
(1) Poultry (laying hens, turkeys, chicks,
poults, and broilers) - carbon dioxide (CO2), cervical dislocation, gunshot,
blunt force trauma, decapitation, nonpenetrating captive bolt, electrocution,
water based foam, and barbiturates.
(2) Maceration may be used for one day old
chicks and poults, and for pipped and embryonated eggs. Delivery to the
macerator must occur in a way and at a rate that prevents a backlog at the
point of entry into the macerator; and without causing injury, suffocation, or
avoidable distress before maceration.
(3) Blunt force trauma is acceptable only for
turkeys weighing greater than or equal to fifteen pounds.
(4) Gunshot for free-range poultry
only.
(5) Foam is only acceptable
for mass euthanasia.
(C) Porcine (swine)
(1) Acceptable euthanasia
methods:
(a) Pigs weighing more than seventy
pounds: penetrating captive bolt, gunshot, and barbiturates.
(b) Pigs weighing greater than twelve pounds
and up to seventy pounds: penetrating captive bolt, gunshot, carbon dioxide
(CO2), and barbiturates.
(c) Pigs
weighing less than or equal to twelve pounds: carbon dioxide (CO2),
nonpenetrating captive bolt, blunt force trauma, barbiturates.
(d) Pigs weighing equal to or greater than
ten pounds: electrocution.
(2) Sites for the physical method:
(a) Frontal - the gun or penetrating captive
bolt is directed at middle of the head and one inch above the level of the eyes
aiming at the spine.
(b)
Temporal (side) - the gun is directed at a ninety degree angle to the side of
the head at a point midway between the eye and the base of the ear.
(c)
Behind the ear - the gun is directed from behind the
ear diagonally toward the opposite eye.
(3) Electrocution
(a) For one-step electrocution, a minimum of
one hundred ten volts that produces a minimum of 0.5 amps for pigs weighing
equal to or greater than ten pounds and up to thirty five pounds is required.
For pigs weighing greater than thirty five pounds, a minimum of two hundred
twenty volts that produces a minimum of 1.3 amps is required.
(b)
For two-step stunning and electrocution, the animal is first rendered
unconscious by passing an alternating current across the head and followed
immediately, in less than fifteen seconds, by passing the current from the head
to the opposite side of the body behind the heart, or
across the chest.
(D) Bovine (cattle)
(1) Acceptable euthanasia methods:
penetrating captive bolt, gunshot, and barbiturates.
(2) Sites for physical methods:
(a) Frontal - the gun or penetrating captive
bolt is directed at the point of intersection of imaginary diagonal lines from
the
outside corner of the eye to the base of the opposite
horn or to a point just above the opposite ear aiming at the spine.
(b)
Temporal (side) - the gun is directed at a ninety degree angle to the side of
the head at a point midway between the eye and the base of the ear.
(c)
Poll method - the gun is directed at a point just behind the poll aiming at the
muzzle.
(E) Caprine (goat) and ovine (sheep)
(1) Acceptable euthanasia methods:
penetrating captive bolt, gunshot, carbon dioxide (CO2), and
barbiturates.
(2) Nonpenetrating
captive bolt and blunt force trauma may be used on young animals less than
twelve pounds.
(3) Sites for
physical methods:
(a) Hornless
and horned sheep - for the poll method the gun or
penetrating captive bolt is directed at
a point just behind the
poll and aimed in the direction of the of the back of the
throat.
(b)
Hornless and hornded sheep
and goats - for the frontal method the gun
or penetrating captive bolt is directed at the
middle of the forehead just above the level of the eyes and aiming at the
spine.
(c)
All goats - for
the poll method the gunshot or penetrating
captive bolt is directed at a point just behind the poll and aimed at the
lower part of
the chin.
(F) Alpaca and llama
(1) Acceptable euthanasia methods:
penetrating captive bolt, gunshot, and barbiturates.
(2) Site for physical method:
(a)
Frontal - the gunshot or penetrating captive bolt is
directed at the point of intersection of imaginary diagonal lines from the
inside corner to the eye to the base of the opposite ear aiming at the
spine.
(b)
Poll method - the gunshot or penetrating captive bolt
is directed at a point just behind the poll and aimed in the direction of the
back of the throat.
Effective:
3/28/2013
R.C.
119.032 review dates:
01/20/2016
Promulgated
Under: 119.03
Statutory
Authority: 904.03
Rule
Amplifies: 904.03,
904.04
Prior
Effective Dates: 1/20/2011
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