Farm and Home Biosecurity
Livestock/Row Crop Producer
Arkansas Farm Biosecurity
Plan -
Bioterrorism and Disease Surveillance at Sale Barns
While at a sale barn, livestock inspectors and animal health technician will
be alert for any animal or group of animal displaying unusual symptoms,
especially:
1. Blisters or open sores in the mouth or on the nose
2. Central Nervous Systems Signs
- Head tilt
- Circling
- Head pressing
- Stumbling gait
- Self mutilation
- Severe depression
3. Any group of three or more sick animals from the same farm is showing
the same symptoms.
4. Any group of sick animals from multiple farms in the same or multiple
pens that are showing the same symptoms.
When sick animals showing the unusual symptoms are noticed, the livestock
inspector or animal health technician will:
1. Attempt to isolate all animals in the consignment of the sick animals
from other animals.
2. Gather identification of the sick animals.
3. Fill out a foreign or emerging animal disease report form.
4. Quarantine the animals in question to the barn until they are examined
by the sale barn veterinarian
5. Immediately notify the sale barn veterinarian and/or sale barn owner.
The sale barn or local veterinarian after examination may:
- Release the animals in question for sale by written signature of the
veterinarian if they pose no foreign or emerging animal disease risk to any
other livestock;
- Contact a foreign animal disease diagnostician if the veterinarian is
unable to determine that the animals in question do not pose a foreign or
emerging animal disease risk to any other livestock;
- Take samples if directed by foreign animal disease diagnostician and
allow all animals in contact with the sick animals to sell; and/or
- Stop all movement of livestock from the sale barn until a foreign
animal disease diagnostician has examined the sick animals.
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