Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
Housing must provide a clean and safe environment that
promotes the health, welfare and performance of veal calves at all stages of
their lives.
(B)
Lighting must be adequate to observe all calves during
inspection; and if natural light is not available, artificial light must be
provided for eight hours in every twenty-four hour period of sufficient
intensity that calves can observe each other.
(C)
Individual pens
for veal calves may be used under the following conditions:
(1)
Must allow for
quality air circulation, permit opportunity for socialization between veal
calves, with consideration given to ensuring the calf's health is maintained,
allow the calves to stand without impediment, provide for normal resting
postures, groom, eat, lie down and rest;
(2)
Veal calves will
be permitted to be tethered or non-tethered in stalls of a minimum twenty-four
inches wide and sixty-six inches long until December 31, 2017;
(3)
After December
31, 2017, tethering may only be used in accordance with paragraph (E) of this
rule; and an individual pen must permit a calf's movement as described in
paragraph (C)(1) of this rule and in addition the calf must be able to turn
around; and;
(4)
After December 31, 2017, veal calves must be housed in
group pens by ten weeks of age.
(D)
Group pens for
veal calves may be used under the following conditions:
(1)
Must allow for
quality air circulation, permit opportunity for socialization between veal
calves, with consideration given to ensuring the calfs health is maintained,
allow the calves to stand without impediment, provide for normal resting
postures, groom, eat, turn around, lie down and rest;
(2)
A minimum of two
veal calves in an area of a minimum of fourteen square feet per veal
calf;
(3)
Calves of substantially different sizes must be
separated from one another; and,
(4)
Veal calves must
be monitored on a daily basis for naval and cross sucking and be provided with
intervention, such as movement to individual pens.
(E)
Tethering of
veal calves may be used under the following conditions:
(1)
To prevent naval
and cross sucking and restraint for examinations, treatments and transit;
(2)
Tether must be long enough to allow the veal calf to stand, groom, eat, lie
down comfortably and rest in a natural posture;
(3)
The tether's
length and collar size must be checked every other week and adjusted as
necessary; and,
(4)
Tethering as used in this chapter refers only to veal
as defined in rule 901:12-5-01 of the Administrative Code.
Effective:
9/29/2011
R.C.
119.032 review dates:
09/29/2016
Promulgated Under:
119.03
Statutory
Authority: 904.03
Rule
Amplifies: 904.03
