Standards for Organic Meat & Dairy

Poultry: Poultry products must be from poultry that has been under continuous organic management beginning no later than the second day of life.
Milk: Or milk products must be from animals that have been under continuous organic management beginning no later than 1 year prior to the production of the milk or milk products that are to be sold, labeled, or represented as organic.
The producer of an organic livestock farm must provide livestock with a total feed ration composed of agricultural products, including pasture and forage, that are organically produced and handled.

The producer of organic livestock MUST NOT, use animal drugs, including hormones, to promote growth.
Provide feed supplements or additives in amounts above those needed for adequate nutrition and health maintenance for the species at its specific stage of life.

They CANNOT feed livestock plastic pellets for roughage, feed formulas containing urea or manure and/or feed mammalian or poultry slaughter by-products to mammals or poultry. - USDA