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Article 9(2)
1.—(1) The following samples are to be taken when the birds are chicks—
(a)1 chick box liner, up to a maximum of 10, for every 500 chicks delivered from the hatchery; and
(b)the carcases of all chicks, up to a maximum of 60, from each hatchery that are dead on arrival at the holding.
(2) In this paragraph, “chick box liner” (“leinin blychau cywion”) means any material used to line a box or other container in which chicks are transported from the hatchery to the holding.
2.—(1) The following samples are to be taken from each flock of four-week-old birds and each flock two weeks before it comes into lay or moves to the laying phase or laying unit—
(a)a minimum of two pairs of boot swabs; or
(b)a composite faeces sample.
(2) In this paragraph, “a composite faeces sample” (“sampl gyfansawdd o ysgarthion”) means a sample of faeces consisting of a number of individual samples calculated in accordance with the following Table, each of which weighs not less than 1 gram and is taken from a site selected at random to represent the building or group of buildings on the holding from which it is taken.
The number of sites from which separate faeces samples are to be taken in order to make a composite sample are as follows—
Number of birds kept in a building | Number of faeces samples to be taken in the building |
---|---|
1—24 | Number equal to the number of birds, up to a maximum of 20 |
25—29 | 20 |
30—39 | 25 |
40—49 | 30 |
50—59 | 35 |
60—89 | 40 |
90—199 | 50 |
200—499 | 55 |
500 or more | 60 |
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