Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 051 - Livestock Board › Sub-Agency 0003 - State Veterinarian › Chapter 15 - TRICHOMONIASIS RULES › Section 15-4 - Definitions Used in Rules

Current through July 13, 2024
The following definitions apply to these rules:
(a) "Approved Livestock Market" means a
				livestock market that is licensed by the Board.
(b) "Board" means the Wyoming Livestock
				Board, whose current address is 1934 Wyott Drive, Cheyenne, WY 82002-0051,
				(307) 777-7515.
(c) "Bovine" means
				sexually intact male and female Bovine of the genus Bos of any breed.
(d) "Brand Inspection Form" means a document
				issued by the Board that is used to record the change of ownership and/or
				movement of livestock both intrastate and interstate.
(e) "Certified Trichomoniasis Negative" means
				any bull that has tested negative to two (2) PCR tests conducted within seven
				(7) to twenty-one (21) days of each other with no reproductive exposure for at
				least thirty (30) days prior to the first test.
(f) "Common Grazing" means any common
				pasturing arrangement, in which Bovine from two (2) or more Herd Units not
				under common ownership may commingle. This includes common grazing on all
				private, state, tribal, or federal lands, or any combination thereof.
(g) "Designated Feedlot" means any feedlot
				that is designated by the Board to feed - with no provision for grazing - and
				properly identify and manage Restricted Livestock in a designated portion of
				the feedlot, preventing direct contact between restricted and non-restricted
				livestock.
(h) "Direct Movement"
				means movement in which the Bovine are not unloaded enroute to their final
				destination.
(i) "Feedlot" means a
				confined dry lot area for feeding of animals with no facilities for pasturing
				or grazing.
(j) "Herd Unit" means
				a group of one or more Bovine under individual or multiple ownership that is
				managed as one herd on a year-round basis.
(k) "Infected Herd Unit" means a Herd Unit in
				which one or more Bovine have been diagnosed as a Trichomoniasis Infected
				Bovine. The State Veterinarian, in cooperation with the livestock producer and
				the Trichomoniasis Certified Veterinarian will determine what constitutes an
				Infected Herd Unit.
(l) "Official
				Trichomoniasis Test" means an approved PCR test, conducted on a properly
				collected and cultivated or processed sample, to detect the presence of the
				organism
Tritrichomonas foetus
and properly recorded on an
				official Trichomoniasis test record provided by the Board. All Official
				Trichomoniasis Testing shall be performed only by authorized personnel at an
				approved veterinary laboratory. Staff from the Veterinary Laboratory shall
				determine if the sample was properly collected and cultivated or processed.
(m) "Official Trichomoniasis Test
				Identification Tag" means an ear tag that is authorized by the Board and placed
				in the right ear of a Test Eligible Bovine at the time of the first Official
				Trichomoniasis Test prior to that immediate breeding season.
(n) "PCR test" means the Polymerase Chain
				Reaction test, a test which detects genetic material of
Tritrichomonas
				foetus
. Staff from the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory shall
				advise the State Veterinarian on the protocol for sample collection and
				processing for this test.
(o)
				"Pooled Samples" means samples combined at the veterinary laboratory from more
				than one bull belonging to one owner. No more than five (5) individual samples
				may be combined into one Pooled Sample.
(p) "Premises" means the ground, area,
				buildings and equipment occupied by one or more Bovine.
(q) "Quarantine" means a document issued by
				the State Veterinarian or his designee that restricts movement of specific
				Bovine to premises as determined by the State Veterinarian.
(r) "Recognized Slaughter Establishment"
				means any slaughter establishment operating under the provisions of either:
(i) The Federal Meat Inspection Act,
				21
				U.S.C. §
											601 through § 695,
				including all amendments as of January 1, 2016, being too long and cumbersome
				to incorporate the full text, shall be incorporated by reference in these
				rules. The incorporated material does not include any later amendments of the
				adopted Federal Meat Inspection Act past January 1, 2016. This document is
				available to the public at the office of the Board and online at:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/rulemaking/federal-meat-inspection-act
;
				Or,
(ii) The 2012 Wyoming Food
				Safety Rule found at Chapter 1 - Purpose, Variances, Definitions,
				Demonstrations of Knowledge, and Health Status, as promulgated and amended by
				the Wyoming Department of Agriculture. Chapter 1 of the 2012 Wyoming Food
				Safety Rule, being too long and cumbersome to incorporate the full text, shall
				be incorporated by reference in these rules. The incorporated material does not
				include any later amendments of the adopted Chapter 1 rule past January 1,
				2016. This document is available to the public at the office of the Board and
				online at:
http://agriculture.wy.gov/images/stories/pdf/chs/foodrule/chapt12012.pdf