Pennsylvania Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
Part I - Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services
Chapter 15 - CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF PULLORUM DISEASE
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 15.2 - Flock and participation

Universal Citation: 7 PA Code ยง 15.2

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024

(a) Participation in the program shall be required for program bird breeding flocks within this Commonwealth.

(b) Only program birds and hatching eggs originating from breeding flocks or hatcheries participating in the program or an equivalent official pullorum-typhoid eradication program may be bought, sold, added to flocks, transported within or imported into this Commonwealth, except those to be immediately slaughtered.

(c) Participation in the program requires:

(i) Blood tests of breeding flocks.

(ii) Blood tests of other avian species kept with or near the breeding flocks as deemed necessary by the Department.

(iii) Achievement and maintenance of a pullorum-typhoid free flock status under the requirements of § § 15.21 -15.23 (relating to testing).

(d) The owner shall place his flock under the supervision and inspection of the Department in order to participate in the program and shall confine the birds to enable collection of blood samples.

(e) Both open and closed breeding flocks shall participate.

This section cited in 7 Pa. Code § 15.10 (relating to importation and intrastate transportation of program birds and their hatching eggs).

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