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Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
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TITLE 35. Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry |
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Chapter 15. Animal Industry |
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Subchapter 19. Poultry Regulations |
SECTION 35:15-19-1. Definitions
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- The following words and terms when used in this Subchapter shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:"Baby poultry" means newly hatched poultry that have not been fed or watered."Check testing" means the process of collecting blood samples from birds in a flock by state inspectors to verify compliance with rules and testing procedures used by permitted testers."Custom hatching" means a process in which a person incubates eggs, through mechanical means, for another person."Dealer" means a person other than a flock owner or hatchery who offers poultry products for sale or trade."Domesticated" means propagated and maintained under the control of a person."Exhibition poultry" means domestic fowl bred for purposes of meat or egg production and competitive or noncompetitive showing."Flock" means:(A) As applied to breeding, all poultry of one kind of mating (breed and variety or combination of stocks) and one classification on one farm.(B) As applied to disease control, all of the poultry on one farm except that, at the discretion of the Official State Agency, any group of poultry segregated from another group and has been segregated for a period of at least 21 days may be considered a separate flock."Fowl typhoid" or "typhoid" means a disease of poultry caused by Salmonella gallinarum."Hatchery" means hatchery equipment on one premise operated or controlled by any person used for the incubation of eggs with the intention of:(A) Selling or dispensing of hatched chicks before they reach sixteen (16) weeks of age, or(B) Custom hatching."Infected flock" means a flock in which one or more birds have been diagnosed by an approved test or isolation of a reportable salmonella group."Laboratory" means a laboratory approved by the Board for performing approved serological testing procedures and bacteriological culture techniques."Negative test result" means an approved testing procedure in which the blood or serum antigen mixture fails to agglutinate."Official leg band" or "wing band" means an individual identification device for poultry approved by the State Veterinarian."Official State Agency" means the Department."Official test" means the official blood tests for pullorum-typhoid shall be the standard tube agglutination test, the microagglutination test, the rapid serum test, or the stained antigen, rapid whole-blood test for all classes of poultry."Permitted tester" means a person qualified and authorized by the State Veterinarian or the poultry disease control authority of the state of origin to collect and test blood samples for the pullorum-typhoid eradication program."Positive test result" means an approved testing procedure in which there is complete or nearly complete agglutination."Poultry" means domesticated fowl, including chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, game chickens, and game birds, except doves and pigeons."Poultry house" or "house" means any building used to house poultry."Products" means poultry breeding stock, hatching eggs, baby poultry, and started poultry."Pullorum disease" or "pullorum" means a disease of poultry caused by Salmonella pullorum."Quarantine" means, but is not limited to, any order, hold, affected area, quarantine, infected premise or area, movement restrictions of any kind, or notice issued by any state or federal entity specifying boundaries or conditions of the quarantine."Started poultry" means young poultry that have been fed and watered and are less than sixteen (16) weeks of age."State" means any state, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, or Puerto Rico."State Inspector" means any person employed by the Official State Agency to supervise the selecting and testing of participating flocks and to perform the official inspections and tests necessary to verify compliance with the requirements of the National Poultry Improvement Plan.