Overview
If you feed or administer hormones, growth promotants, beta-agonists, or certain prohibited (not common in livestock medicines) antimicrobials make sure the NHTC calves are segregated and/or identified differently from the non-conforming animals.
With the NHTC Program, we need a few more details such as what hormones are fed or administered to any cattle (if that even applies). We need to understand where you keep them and how you identify the cattle that receive them.
If you haven’t felt the need to track things that tightly, don’t sweat it. We provide training and all of the template forms you need to make your life easier. And don’t worry, the paperwork is not nearly as cumbersome as you may think.
Requirements
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Cattle can’t ever receive growth promotants, hormones, beta agonists, or certain antimicrobials
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Any cattle receiving products prohibited in the NHTC program requirements, must be identified in a way that indicates they no longer qualify for NHTC
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All NHTC cattle MUST have a Program Compliant Tag (PCT) before they leave the ranch
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Only home raised cattle qualify
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Verify all Commercial and Pre-Mixed feeds by manufacturer with a Feed Tag/Label and NHTC Feed Letter of Guarantee (we can help)
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Non-Hormone Treated Cattle (NHTC)
Includes Source and Age
It's simple – don’t administer or feed hormones, growth promotants, beta-agonists, or certain prohibited antimicrobials (not common in livestock products) to your NHTC cattle. But, if they're too important to give up entirely, then just take a few steps (which you’re probably already doing) to manage the calves in a way which assures calves fed or administered prohibited products are never sold as NHTC.
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