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Premises registration brings us closer to the day when Wisconsin's livestock industry will be prepared to respond within 48 hours in the event of an animal disease outbreak.



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Premises Registration: Who?

Who?

The Wisconsin Livestock Premises Registration Act requires anyone who keeps, houses, or co-mingles livestock to register their premises. Premises that are not currently licensed by the DATCP are required to register.

Livestock species include:

  • bovine (bison, dairy and beef cattle)
  • equine (horses, donkeys, mules)
  • goats
  • poultry (chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowl, and squab)
  • captive game birds (pheasants, quail, wild turkeys, migratory wildfowl,
    pigeons, and exotic birds,)
  • sheep
  • swine (other than wild hogs but including pot belly pigs)
  • farm raised deer (elk, moose, caribou, reindeer, and the subfamily musk
    deer)
  • camelids (llamas, alpacas)
  • ratites (rheas, ostriches, emu, cassowary, kiwi)
  • fish (aquaculture farm)

But do not include:

  • rabbits
  • dogs
  • cats