Don't:

• Commingle breeding and replacement cattle with high-risk cattle.

• Buy replacements or breeding cattle without a negative TB test certificate.

• Wear the same clothes, including footwear — after visiting a sale barn, show or exhibition — around your own herd until you have cleaned and disinfected them.

Do:

• Test replacement animals.

• Isolate replacement animals for six weeks before commingling them with the breeding herd.

• Prevent direct contact between your herd and those of other producers.

• Isolate diseased cattle.

• Use sterile syringes and needles.

• Disinfect tattoo, dehorning, castration, ear tagging, etc., equipment. Properly dispose of diseased dead animals by burning or burying the carcasses.

• Ask your veterinarian to submit laboratory tests on diseased animals, alive and dead.

• Use milk replacer or pasteurized milk, not raw milk.

• Thoroughly clean any vehicles, trailers, etc., that have been to the sale barn, show or exhibition.

• Restrict on-farm visitors from contact with your herd. This includes milk haulers, feed-delivery personnel, or others who have contact with other herds.

• Ensure fences are in good condition to separate your herd from wildlife.

• Buy animals from accredited TB-free herds; test new animals prior to purchase.