2 CAR § 163-101 – General requirements

(a) The purpose of this part is to control scrapie in Arkansas and to comply with the federal Scrapie Program Standards.
(b) Regulated animals in this part include all:
1. (1) Breeding sheep;
2. (2) Sheep over eighteen (18) months of age;
3. (3) Scrapie-exposed, suspect, high-risk, and test-positive animals;
4. (4) Registered breeding goats, breeding goats in contact with sheep, and dairy goats actually from goat dairies; and
5. (5) Sheep or goats for exhibition.
(c) Exempt animals from this part include:
1. (1) Feeders under eighteen (18) months of age for later movement to slaughter; and
2. (2) Nonregistered meat-type goats, brush goats and castrated sheep, and goats under eighteen (18) months of age.
(d) All sheep or goats as defined by this part that are bartered, leased, traded, loaned, sold, exhibited, or otherwise moved from one (1) management to another shall be deemed to have undergone a change of ownership for the purpose of this part.
(e) All sheep and goats as defined by this part that are grouped together having physical contact with each other, including contact through a fence with a confined lambing area or lambing animals, sharing the same transportation space where physical contact can occur, shall be deemed to have commingled.
(f) Any sheep or goats as defined by this part that are offered for sale in an approved Arkansas livestock market that have not previously been identified must be identified with an official United States Department of Agriculture tag prior to arrival and prior to commingling with any other sheep or goats and all information recorded as required for change of ownership or meet the entry requirements or returned to the state of origin.
(g) Any sheep or goats as defined by this part undergoing a change of ownership (including exhibition and/or importation into the state) and not having an official identification shall be quarantined to the farm of origin until the requirements of this part are met.