{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-england-order-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-england-order-2007/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries (England) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poultry-breeding-flocks-and-hatcheries-england-order-2007",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Sampling of four-week-old birds etc.",
  "text": "(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—\n(a) a minimum of two pairs of boot swabs; or\n(b) a composite faeces sample.\n(2) In this paragraph, “a composite faeces sample” 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.\nTable\nThe number of sites from which separate faeces samples are to be taken in order to make a composite sample are as follows—\nNumber of birds kept in a building\nNumber of faeces samples to be taken in the building\n1-24\nNumber equal to the number of birds, up to a maximum of 20\n25-29\n20\n30-39\n25\n40-49\n30\n50-59\n35\n60-89\n40\n90-199\n50\n200-499\n55\n500 or more\n60",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/405/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:04:53.482996+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}