[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR780.124]

[Page 573]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 780_EXEMPTIONS APPLICABLE TO AGRICULTURE, PROCESSING OF AGRICULTURAL 
 
                 Subpart B_General Scope of Agriculture
 
Sec. 780.124  Raising of fur-bearing animals.

    (a) The term ``fur-bearing animals'' has reference to animals which 
bear fur of marketable value and includes, among other animals, rabbits, 
silver foxes, minks, squirrels, and muskrats. Animals whose fur lacks 
marketable value, such as albino and other rats, mice, guinea pigs, and 
hamsters, are not ``fur-bearing animals'' which within the meaning of 
section 3(f).
    (b) The term ``raising'' of fur-bearing animals includes all those 
activities customarily performed in connection with breeding, feeding 
and caring for fur-bearing animals, including the treatment of disease. 
Such treatment of disease has reference only to disease of the animals 
being bred and does not refer to the use of such animals or their fur in 
experimenting with disease or treating diseases in others. The fact that 
muskrats or other fur-bearing animals are propagated in open water or 
marsh areas rather than in pens does not prevent the raising of such 
animals from constituting the ``raising of fur-bearing animals.'' Where 
wild fur-bearing animals propagate in their native habitat and are not 
raised as above described, the trapping or hunting of such animals and 
activities incidental thereto are not included within section 3(f).