# The Testing of Poultry Flocks Order 1989, Paragraph 2


The samples to be taken shall comprise:–
(a) all chick box liners, up to a maximum of 10, from each consignment of chicks delivered to any rearing premises on any day, such samples to be taken on the day of the arrival of the chicks there;
(b) the carcases of all chicks, up to a maximum of 60, which are dead on arrival at any rearing premises and which die within 4 days of their arrival there;
(c) the carcases of all birds which die or are slaughtered when between 3 and 5 weeks of age, up to a maximum of 60;
(d) cloacal swabs taken (at the rate of one swab from each bird) from birds which have attained 4 weeks of age, such swabs being taken within 1 week of the birds attaining that age;
(e) cloacal swabs taken (at the rate of one swab from each bird) from birds which have attained 14 weeks of age, such swabs being taken within 1 week of the birds attaining that age;
(f) cloacal swabs taken (at the rate of one swab from each bird) within 1 week of the birds attaining 22, 26 and 30 weeks of age and at 8 week intervals thereafter, and
(g) the carcases of five birds (or of any such smaller number that there may be) which have died or been slaughtered when between 26 and 30 weeks of age.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/504/schedule/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/testing-of-poultry-flocks-order-1989/schedule/paragraph-2
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