Florida Administrative Code › 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › 5C - Division of Animal Industry › Chapter 5C-6 - BRUCELLOSIS › Section 5C-6.005 - Quarantined Feedlots and Quarantined Pastures

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Quarantined feedlots. A quarantined
				feedlot is defined as a confined area under official state quarantine and
				approved jointly by state and federal animal health officials. Adequate
				procedures must be maintained to account for all animals entering or leaving
				the quarantined feedlot. Such quarantined feedlots shall be approved annually.
				All animals in a quarantined feedlot shall be classified as exposed to
				brucellosis. No breeding or "two-way" animals shall be allowed in the
				quarantined feedlot. The feedlot shall be maintained for finish feeding of
				animals in drylot. If provisions for pasturing or grazing adjacent to the
				feedlot premises are needed, it must be approved as designated below. All
				animals except steers and spayed heifers leaving such feedlot must go directly
				to slaughter; or may be moved directly to another quarantined feedlot with a
				permit from the state animal health official; or may be hot-iron "S" branded at
				the feedlot and moved to a specifically approved stockyard or state-approved
				livestock market to be sold for movement with a federal permit issued at the
				market directly to another quarantined feedlot or directly to slaughter.
				Animals originating in any herd in any area may be consigned without test
				directly to a quarantined feedlot or to a specifically approved stockyard or
				state-approved livestock market for sale and shipment directly to a quarantined
				feedlot. All test-eligible animals (see subsection
				5C-6.00192(1),
				F.A.C.) over 18 months of age (as evidenced by the loss of the first pair of
				temporary incisor teeth) must be tested upon arrival unless they originate from
				a Class Free Area or from Certified Brucellosis-Free Herds or have proof of a
				negative test (copies of such proof to be maintained in the quarantined feedlot
				records) within the previous 30 days. Any reactors disclosed shall remain in
				the quarantined facility without further identification until removed for
				slaughter. They shall be traced and handled as any other MCI reactor. Animals
				consigned to a quarantined feedlot shall not be diverted en route for any other
				purpose. All animals, (except steers and spayed heifers) shall be permanently
				identified with a "S" hot-iron brand either on the left jaw or high on the
				tailhead (over the fourth to the seventh coccygeal vertebrae) upon entering
				such feedlots.
(2) Requirements for
				pasture or grazing areas adjacent to a Quarantined Feedlot.
(a) The pasture or grazing area must be
				located adjacent to the Quarantined Feedlot and must be jointly approved by
				state and federal animal health officials. It must be enclosed by a double
				fence (two fences at least 10 feet apart) to eliminate the possibility of
				direct contact of the quarantined animals with neighboring grazing or breeding
				animals.
(b) All herd owners with
				premises which are adjacent to the Quarantined Feedlot's pasture or grazing
				areas must receive prior notification of this proposed action and must give
				their written approval.
(c) Records
				of cattle movements into and out of the pasture or grazing areas must be kept
				and handled the same as records for the movement of cattle within the feedlot.
				This will provide inspectors the same surveillance opportunity that exists
				within the Quarantined Feedlot.