The New Mexico Livestock Board is a state-level government agency regulates livestock health and livestock identification in
New Mexico.
History
The board was created in 1967 by the merger of the New Mexico Cattle Sanitary Board and the New Mexico Sheep Sanitary Board.
Responsibilities
The New Mexico Livestock Board maintains regulatory control over livestock now includes
cattle,
horses,
mule
The mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse. It is the offspring of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare). The horse and the donkey are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes; of the two pos ...
s,
donkey
The domestic donkey is a hoofed mammal in the family Equidae, the same family as the horse. It derives from the African wild ass, ''Equus africanus'', and may be classified either as a subspecies thereof, ''Equus africanus asinus'', or as a ...
s (burros),
goats,
sheep,
pigs,
bison
Bison are large bovines in the genus ''Bison'' (Greek: "wild ox" (bison)) within the tribe Bovini. Two extant and numerous extinct species are recognised.
Of the two surviving species, the American bison, ''B. bison'', found only in North Ame ...
,
poultry,
ratite
A ratite () is any of a diverse group of flightless, large, long-necked, and long-legged birds of the infraclass Palaeognathae. Kiwi, the exception, are much smaller and shorter-legged and are the only nocturnal extant ratites.
The systematics ...
s (notably
ostriches),
camelids (notably
llamas) and farmed
deer.
[The New Mexico Livestock Code]
New Mexico Statutes Annotated § 77-2-1.1 Definitions
/ref> The regulatory authority does not include farmed fish, nor dogs or cats.
Livestock health
The New Mexico Livestock Board maintains health programs in:
*Bovine Brucellosis
*Bovine Trichimoniasis
*Bovine Tuberculosis
*Bovine Johne's Disease
*Equine Infections Anemia (EIA)
*Scrapie
*Swine Health Surveillance
See also
* ''Kleppe v. New Mexico
''Kleppe v. New Mexico'', 426 U.S. 529 (1976), was a United States Supreme Court decision that unanimously held the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, passed in 1971 by the United States Congress to protect these animals from "ca ...
''
References
External links
"New Mexico Livestock Board"
official website
Livestock Board, New Mexico
Veterinary organizations
Government agencies established in 1967
1967 establishments in New Mexico
Animal law
Veterinary medicine in the United States
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