051-8 Wyo. Code R. §§ 8-13 - Requirements for Importing Sheep or Goats
(a)
Any person importing one or more sheep or goats into Wyoming must comply with
Sections 5 and 6 unless otherwise provided in this section.
(b) A sheep or goat imported for breeding or
Exhibition Purposes regardless of age and sheep or goats over 18 months of age
must have Official Individual Identification.
(c)
Brucella ovis
requirements for sheep.
(i) Within 30 days
prior to importation, a sexually intact male sheep over six months of age shall
test negative for Brucella ovis using the enzyme linked
immunoassay or other test approved by the Wyoming State Veterinarian except as
provided below:
(A) It is imported from a
state certified Brucella ovis free flock and the certified
flock number is recorded on the CVI.
(B) It is returning to Wyoming pursuant to a
Commuter Permit or Adjacent State Contiguous Property Movement Permit. A
sexually intact male sheep over six months of age that is exposed to any female
sheep other than those moving under the permit must test negative prior to its
next turn out with female sheep.
(C) It is returning to its Wyoming Premises
of Origin from an artificial insemination collection facility where no female
exposure has occurred.
(d) Scrapie requirements.
(i) Sexually intact sheep or goats exposed to
any known or suspected Scrapie positive Animal or to Premises where Scrapie
positive Animals have been kept may not be imported into Wyoming except sheep
and goats enrolled in a Scrapie Post Exposure Management and Monitoring Plan
approved by USDA APHIS VS, the state Animal health official from the state of
origin may be imported with the prior written approval of the Wyoming State
Veterinarian.
(e) Show
Lamb Fungus requirements for sheep.
(i) A
sheep imported as a show market sheep (club lamb) shall be examined prior to
importation and found free of Show Lamb Fungus.
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