Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 35 - Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry › Chapter 15 - Animal Industry › Subchapter 19 - Poultry Regulations › Section 35:15-19-1 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
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.
Amended at 9 Ok Reg
				  1757, eff 5-26-92; Amended at 17 Ok Reg 2828, eff 7-13-00; Amended at 21 Ok Reg
				  1173, eff 3-29-04 (emergency); Amended at 22 Ok Reg 694, eff
				  5-12-05