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Holdings — Livestock Holdings Registry

A read-only, jurisdiction-scoped view of every registered holding in your patch — with the two things an Authority user can actually act on: verifying its canonical geography, and assigning its responsible vet contact.

Audience: state vets, Authority users Part of the Authority guide set

What this guide covers: the Holdings registry, verifying a holding's canonical geography, and assigning its responsible veterinary contact.

What it doesn't cover: full holding management (camps, animals, movements) — that's the organisation's own Holdings & Camps page in LITS; this Authority view is read-only.

Overview

The registry

Found at Authority → Holdings. Table columns: Location Type (farm, auction house, feedlot, abattoir, communal area, dip tank, border post, quarantine facility, veterinary checkpoint, holding pen, transport hub, other), Name & code, Registration number, Camps count, Status. Filters: location type, province, district, search. Hero KPIs: total holdings, active on page, without GLN, with camps.

Click any row to open a detail drawer with identification (registration number, internal code, organisation id), a read-only camps/paddocks list, and shortcut links into Animals and Movements filtered to this holding.

Canonical geography

Canonical geography

The detail drawer's Canonical Geography section shows the holding's location resolution status and its resolved administrative area. If it needs checking, click Verify Location to open the verification dialog and confirm or correct the administrative area — this is the authorised write path that keeps routing (which vet, which jurisdiction) accurate.

Responsible contact

Responsible Veterinary Contact

The same drawer's Responsible Veterinary Contact section lets you assign or change the Primary State Vet, Provincial Director, and any number of Alternates for this holding, with a full assignment history below it.

If no primary state vet is assigned, a warning banner says so plainly: this holding cannot receive a valid FMD compliance notice until one is. Assigning a primary state vet here is what unblocks the org's own FMD vaccination campaign wizard.