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Animal Diseases Act, 1984 (Act No. 35 of 1984)

Notices

Control Measures relating to Outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease

Part C: Options to continue Farming Activities on Infected Premises

14. Movements of Live Animals from Quarantined Premises

 

This section is intended to provide options and conditions for farming activities on infected farms to continue, where possible, on a risk and commodity basis.

 

14.1 Animals that move must be identified as per 12.1 and recorded on a livestock identification and traceability system. These movements must take place with red cross permits issued by Veterinary Services or under an equivalent system (Clause 14.3.1).

 

14.2 Table detailing examples of allowed movement to controlled destinations:

 

From quarantined premise because of FMD outbreak in cattle

To controlled destination

Possible Reasons

Feedlot emergency slaughter

 

Designated Abattoir

Welfare

Sale / auction Yard

Feedlot or Farm under quarantine or with a separate camp for these animals to observe a 28-day post-arrival isolation & clinical surveillance

1) No feeding /watering systems in place for medium term keeping of livestock at sale yard.
2) Collateral Species (other than cattle) unaffected and with low risk e.g. sheep, goats, pigs

Cows or heifers before / after calving

Dairy / farm with a separate pen/camp

No feeding /watering/husbandry systems in place for newborns or millking

All livestock

Feedlot or Farm under quarantine or with a separate camp for these animals to observe a 28-day post-arrival isolation & clinical surveillance period

Natural disasters such as floods, fire that prevents the keeping of livestock under management principles that observe the 5 freedoms of animal welfare.

Collateral Species (other than cattle) unaffected and with low risk e.g. sheep, goats, pigs

Feedlot or Farm under quarantine or with a separate camp for these animals to observe a 28-day post-arrival isolation & clinical surveillance period

Normal farming activities such as shearing, feedlotting etc must continue

Wildlife other than Buffalo

Farm, facility (e.g. zoo or boma) under quarantine or with a separate camp for these animals to observe a 28-day post-arrival isolation & clinical surveillance period.

Normal game ranching activities must continue.

 

14.3 Movement to abattoirs or from backgrounding premises to feedlots

 

14.3.1 Feedlots and piggeries that practice similar sealing and unsealing and travel documentation practices to the State Red Cross Permit system, with auditable record keeping, can be recognised as an equivalent system by the relevant provincial veterinary authority.
14.3.2 Feedlots and piggeries that qualify under 14.3.1 can follow the principle that all loads for a particular day are regarded as a single consignment, thus the list of individual identification numbers and/or batch numbers in the case of pigs, for the total slaughter for the day is considered as the manifest list. No list of animals per truck is required. The consignment identification numbers list must be available for audit purposes, preferably in electronic format.

 

14.4 Isolation requires that the animals must be separated, defined as no nose-to-nose contact, from other livestock on the premises.

 

14.5 Movement of livestock for slaughter

 

14.5.1 Livestock from farms that are not known to be infected but that are under movement control (first- and second-layer farms) can be allowed to move to the abattoir for slaughter if there are no fresh clinical signs of FMD.