New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING › Chapter 30 - ANIMALS AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY GENERAL PROVISIONS › Part 6 - BOVINE TRICHOMONIASIS › Section 21.30.6.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
				"
Acceptable specimen
" means a specimen determined satisfactory for
				diagnostic testing by the testing laboratory, including complete
				documentation.
B. "
Accredited
				veterinarian
" means an individual who is currently licensed to practice
				veterinary medicine and is accredited by the United States department of
				agriculture, animal plant health inspection service, veterinary services in the
				state of New Mexico.
C.
				"
Agent
" means the executive director, deputy director,
				veterinarian, livestock inspector or employee of the board.
D. "
Approved laboratory
" means
				any laboratory designated and approved by the state veterinarian for examining
T. foetus
samples.
E. "
Approved veterinarian
" means
				an accredited veterinarian who has attended trichomoniasis training that is
				approved by the New Mexico state veterinarian. Such training must include
				preputial sampling, sample handling and shipping, appropriate record keeping
				and official bull trichomoniasis identification. A trained and certified
				designee, in the employ of the veterinarian of record for a New Mexico licensed
				sale yard, may work under the guidance of said approved veterinarian. These lay
				trich testers are limited to working at licensed New Mexico sale
				yards.
F. "
Board
"
				means the New Mexico livestock board.
G. "
Bovine
" means any sexually
				intact male or female animal of the genus
bos
.
H. "
Certificate of veterinary
				inspection (CVI)
" means the form issued by the state of origin that
				records the consignor, consignee, identity, origin, destination and health
				status of animals, issued by an accredited veterinarian of that state. It is
				commonly known as a health certificate.
I. "
Commingle
" means bovids of
				opposite sex and belonging to different owners in the same enclosure or pasture
				with a reasonable opportunity for sexual contact.
J. "
Complete bull herd test
"
				means an official
T. foetus
test from each non-virgin bull in
				the herd.
K. "
Confined
				feeding
" means a dry lot feeding facility (not grazing) where there is
				no sexual contact among bovine therein.
L. "
Direct slaughter
" means
				transporting an animal to a slaughter plant without unloading prior to arrival
				at the slaughter plant.
M.
				"
Disease management plan
" means a plan developed to eradicate the
				disease from a positive herd. The disease management plan will be developed by
				the producer and shall be approved by the state veterinarian.
N. "
Exposed herd
" means a herd
				adjacent to a premises occupied by an affected herd, herds sharing common
				pasture or having contact with affected herd(s) as determined by the state
				veterinarian.
O.
				"
Herd
" means the group of animals consisting of all bovines over
				12 months of age (male and female) which have commingled during the last 12
				months.
P. "
Import
				permit
" means a document issued by the state veterinarian's office
				authorizing specific livestock movements into New Mexico. Permits expire 30
				days after issuance and are not transferable.
Q. "
'N' brand
" means the
				official brand registered to New Mexico livestock board, used to designate any
				livestock which must be shipped to slaughter or an approved feedlot.
R. "
Negative
T. foetus
bull
" means a bull which qualifies by one of the following:
(1) originates from a herd not known to be
				infected and has had a negative official
T. foetus
bull test
				within the last 60 days;
(2)
				originates from a positive herd but has a series of three negative official
T. foetus
bull tests at intervals of at least one week;
				or
(3) qualified with a negative
				import or negative in-state official
T. foetus
bull
				test.