Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 2 - Agriculture and Commerce › Part 101 - Rules of the Board of Animal Health › Subpart 2 - Administrative Rules › Chapter 13 - Poultry › Section 2-101-2-13-102

Current through June 25, 2024
All hatcheries, chick dealers, or any person or persons,
					 firm or corporation selling incubator hatched chicks or poults or selling or
					 handling chicken or turkey hatching eggs or doing custom hatching must meet the
					 requirements of sections 100 and 101, as above and below stated.
1. Hatchery or hatcheries
a.Premises and equipment shall be kept in a
				  strictly sanitary condition at all times, properly cleaned and
				  disinfected.
b. Eggs in incubators
				  shall be fumigated at least once during the last three days of each hatch, this
				  fumigation to be done with a fumigant recommended by the U. S. Department of
				  Agriculture, and according to their recommended procedure.
c. Where it is necessary to hold chicks
				  beyond 36 hours, they shall not be held in boxes, but shall be held in approved
				  type battery brooders so that they can be fed and watered.
d. No chicks shall be sold that are more than
				  60 hours old unless they have been fed and watered.
e. Chicks shall be sold locally or shipped in
				  approved type chick boxes.
f.
				  Chicks shall not be held or brooded in the incubator room, but shall be kept in
				  a room completely separate from the incubator room.
g. Chicks shall be held in a room that is
				  kept clean and sanitary and free from drafts.
h. Commercial eggs shall not be kept in the
				  same room with hatching eggs.
Hatching eggs shall not be put in cases that have been used
					 for commercial use.
i. No
				  eggs shall be set in any incubator until and unless proper forms
				  (Pullorum-typhoid testing report or evidence thereof) are on file:
i.In the State office of the Mississippi
				  Board of Animal Health, Jackson, Mississippi
ii. OR in the State office of the Mississippi
				  Poultry Association, Inc., P. O. Box 5425, Mississippi State, MS 39762.
A. For eggs produced in Mississippi, file
				  NPIP Form 3-B.
B. For eggs not
				  produced in Mississippi, comply with 10 below.
j. For any hatching eggs, chicks or poults
				  purchased from out-of-state, the purchaser shall report his "intentions to
				  purchase" on forms supplied for that purpose. The "intention to purchase" shall
				  contain the name and address of the seller, name and address of the purchaser,
				  approximate date or period of delivery, date of the report, breed and variety
				  and pullorum-typhoid classification. Only one report of "intention to purchase"
				  is necessary to cover all lots and purchases from a single source for the
				  period January 1 to December 31.
i. If
				  participating in NPIP, they shall report to the Official State Agency (State
				  Office, MPA, Inc., Mississippi State, MS) their intentions to purchase hatching
				  eggs and chicks or poults on forms supplied for that purpose. The purchaser
				  shall, for each lot of Form NPIP-15, or a statement in writing from the
				  producer showing the date of shipment, name and address of producer, quantity
				  of eggs, chicks or poults, the breed and variety and the pullorum-typhoid
				  classification.
ii. If not
				  participating in the NPIP, they shall report to the Mississippi Board of Animal
				  Health, Jackson, Mississippi, their intentions to purchase hatching eggs, and
				  chicks or poults on a form supplied for that purpose. The purchaser shall, for
				  each lot of hatching eggs, chicks or poults purchased, secure a copy of Form
				  NPIP-15, or a statement in writing from the producer showing the date of
				  shipment, name and address of producer, quantity of eggs, chicks or poults, the
				  breed and variety and the pullorum-typhoid classification.