DEFINITIONS
Commercial Production Swine: Those swine that are continuously managed and have adequate facilities and practices to prevent exposure to either transitional production or feral swine.
Transitional Production Swine: Those feral swine that are captive or swine that have reasonable opportunities to be exposed to feral swine.
Feral or Wild Swine: Those swine that are free roaming, or released on a private game preserve or hunting area. Also, a hog that is not conspicuously identified.
Terminal Facility: A facility for the containment of domestic and feral hogs that requires that hog be killed before leaving the facility.
All swine herds are transitional production swine herds unless a management plan has been submitted and approved by the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission. The management plan must adequately address the separation and control of the potential interface of feral and transitional production swine with the commercial production swine.
Plan Requirements:
All breeding swine imported into Arkansas not under the authority of a commuter swine agreement must have an official premise identification, be individually identified, and accompanied by a certificate of veterinary inspection and permit number. Pseudorabies vaccinates may not enter. Testing requirements of all breeding swine not under the authority of a commuter swine agreement are as follows:
Brucellosis - All animals over six months of age must be tested negative within thirty (30) days prior to shipment; or originate directly from the farm of origin of a validated free herd; or originate directly from the farm of origin of a brucellosis free state.
Pseudorabies - All ages must be tested negative within thirty (30) days prior to shipment; or originate directly from the farm of origin of a pseudorabies qualified herd; or originate directly from the farm of origin of a Stage IV or V state.
Retest Provisions - All breeding swine will be quarantined for a thirty to sixty (30- 60) day retest for brucellosis and pseudorabies at owner's expense. Exceptions to the retest provisions are as follows:
* be isolated until the swine have been found negative to an official pseudorabies serologic test, conducted not less than thirty (30) days, nor more than sixty (60) days after arrival; or
* develop a written agreement for a random sampling approved by the Livestock and Poultry Commission, utilizing official pseudorabies serologic tests which provide a ninety-five percent (95%) probability of detecting infection in a herd in which at least ten percent (10%) of the swine are seropositive for pseudorabies. Each segregated group of swine on an individual premise or those originating from segregated individual sources must be considered a separate herd and individually sampled as follows:
Less than 1001 lead - | test 25 |
100-200 head - | test 27 |
201-999 head - | test 28 |
1,000 and over - | test 29 |
All feeder pigs not under the authority of a commuter swine agreement being imported into the state must have an official premise identification, be individually identified, be accompanied by a certificate of veterinary inspection, and have a permit number. Pseudorabies vaccinates may not enter. Testing requirements and allowable movements of all feeder pigs not under the authority of a commuter swine agreement are as follows:
Less than 100 head - | test 25 |
100-200 head - | test 27 |
201-999 head - | test 28 |
1,000 and over - | test 29 |
Feral swine may not enter into Arkansas.
* If less than thirty (30) pigs, test all;
* If more than thirty (30) pigs, test a minimum of thirty (30) head.
The herd of origin of any pseudorabies or brucellosis reactors shall be immediately quarantined by handing the quarantine directly to the owner or by registered return receipt mail and shall be required to test within twenty-one (21) days of being quarantined. All swine in herds adjacent to the herd of origin that are within a two-(2) mile radius of the herd shall be quarantined. All trace-forward recipient herds and all source herds shall also be quarantined based on epidemiological potential of infection. Each quarantined herd shall remain under quarantine until depopulated, or until negative test results are confirmed on all remaining animals in each herd. Release tests for all adjacent herds shall be performed at least thirty days after the reactors are removed from the herd of origin. All pseudorabies reactor herds shall be required to castrate all boars remaining in the herd and shall have a maximum of one-hundred-eighty (180) days to sell out for slaughter or undergo a mandatory depopulation. All swine brucellosis reactor herds shall be immediately depopulated. Any farm of origin of any depopulated herd or sell-out as the result of these diseases shall be disinfected and must remain free of swine for a minimum of thirty (30) days or up to a maximum of six months based on an epidemiological risk assessment before repopulating.
All of the Commission's prior regulations on feral hogs are null and void.
209.01.13 Ark. Code R. § 003