Chapter 507-3 FLOCK REQUIREMENTS
An official test of a breeding flock is one that is made by an
official testing agent, in which official leg bands and authorized antigen are
used, and the test is made for a member hatchery. A separate flock report is
required for each breeding flock on a premise that is officially
tested.
| (1) |
A
flock-selecting and pullorum-testing report of every official test shall be
forwarded to the state inspector within 7 days from the date that the test is
made. |
| (2) |
All reactors to a
pullorum-typhoid test shall be removed from the farm or disposed of to the
satisfaction of the state inspector, within seven (7) days from notification of
results of the test, unless disposal of the birds is delayed for
bacteriological examination. If bacteriological examination demonstrates
positive pullorum-typhoid infection, all reactors must be disposed of promptly
as herein provided. |
| (3) |
The minimum
charge for plate testing and selecting shall be 3 1/2 cents per bird excluding
cost of leg bands. Leg bands must be secured from the official state agency
through hatcheries or dealer. |
| (4) |
Fees and Charges for the following blood tests are:
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Georgia Flocks* Sample Collected By
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Out-of-State* Sample Collected By
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OSA**
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Other
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OSA**
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Other
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(a) Pullorum-Typhoid
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0
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3¢
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12¢
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5¢
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(b) Typhimurium
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0
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3¢
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12¢
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10¢
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(a) & (b) using sample
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3¢
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6¢
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15¢
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10¢
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(c) M. Gallisepticum
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2¢
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4¢
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16¢
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6¢
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(c) using same sample as (a)
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4¢
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7¢
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18¢
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11¢
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(c) using same sample as (b)
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4¢
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7¢
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18¢
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11¢
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(c) using same as (a) & (b)
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7¢
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10¢
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21¢
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16¢
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*Georgia flocks are flocks located in the State or flocks owned
by Georgia based firms and located within 500 miles of Oakwood, Georgia.
Out-of-state flocks are flocks not owned by Georgia based firms and located
outside the State but within 500 miles of Oakwood, Georgia. Charges for flocks
located beyond the 500 mile limit will be determined on an individual basis but
shall not be less than the charges established for flocks within the 500 mile
limit.
**Charges for blood collecting by Official State Agency personnel
(OSA) are $7.50 per man/hour for bleeders and banders for all time between
arrival at and departure from the farm. Sample collection includes delivery of
the samples of the laboratory in Oakwood, Georgia.
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| (5) |
Birds may be transferred to a new owner
without loss of pullorum-typhoid classification, provided that all requirements
for approval are complied with. |
| (6) |
When it has been determined that Salmonella Pullorum or Fowl Typhoid exists in
a breeder flock currently producing hatching eggs, the flock shall be retested
at intervals of not less than 21 days from date of last test until two negative
tests are obtained. In the interim, no eggs shall be used from the flock in
question for hatching purposes. |
| (7) |
The tube agglutination test shall be required for all pullorum-typhoid testing
of turkeys. |
| (1) |
To qualify under the plan, a
participating flock must meet the pullorum-typhoid classification of the
hatchery or dealer to which it is supply hatching eggs. |
| (2) |
A Ga. U. S. Approved flock shall be any
affiliated flock that is participating in the National Poultry Improvement Plan
or the National Turkey Improvement Plan through an agreement with a Ga. U. S.
Approved hatchery or dealer, and is acceptable to the official state agency.
Such flocks shall meet the selection requirements of constitutional vigor,
absence of serious physical deformities, and display characteristics for meat
and/or egg production. In pure-bred flocks the selection shall be consistent
with the characteristics of the breed. In cross-bred or cross-mated flocks for
broiler chicks, a reasonable tolerance for physical disqualifications, color
variation, and defects not seriously interfering with the value for broiler
production, may be allowed. |
| (3) |
Only one breed, cross-breed, or variety of male and one breed, cross-breed, or
variety of female, shall be mated in a Ga. U. S. Approved Flock. |
| (4) |
A flock owner wishing to supply hatching
eggs to more than one hatchery and/or hatching egg dealer from the same farm or
farms, must first qualify as a hatching egg dealer. |
| (1) |
All turkey
eight (8) months of age on a farm, shall be tested to meet the pullorum-typhoid
classification of any participating turkey flock, and reported to the official
state agency. |
| (2) |
All domesticated
fowl on a farm other than chickens and turkeys provided for in paragraph (1)
above, shall be tested to meet the pullorum-typhoid classification of any
participating flock on the farm when they reach maturity or when more than 5
months of age, whichever is first, and reported official state
agency. |
| (1) |
Official leg
bands and NPIP and NTIP Report Forms, shall be used only in connection with the
testing of any flock which is to supply hatching eggs to a participating
hatchery or dealer. |
| (2) |
All birds
which are required to be bloodtested for the purpose of classifying any
participating flock shall be officially leg banded at time of
testing. |
