Sec.22-324-A7. Requirements on finding of positive or doubtful birds

(a) If one or more positive or doubtful birds are found in a pullorum-typhoid passed or a pullorum-typhoid clean flock by the tube agglutination test, the use of eggs for hatching shall be discontinued at once, from the pen or pens in which the reacting birds were found. The positive or doubtful birds shall be sent alive to the laboratory immediately by the owner as requested by the commissioner, provided not more than five shall be sent, unless others are requested by the laboratory.

(b) If no evidence of pullorum-typhoid disease is found in the reacting birds upon post-mortem examination at the laboratory, the flock shall be considered pullorum-typhoid clean.

(c) If the pullorum-typhoid organism is identified in any of the birds posted and so reported by the laboratory, all sales of hatching eggs and chicks to pullorum-typhoid passed or pullorum-typhoid clean flocks shall stop at once.

(d) If not more than one half of one per cent of a pullorum-typhoid clean flock is found to be positive by the post-mortem examination, a retest of the entire flock shall be made at the discretion of the commissioner not earlier than twenty-one days and not later than forty-two days after the first test. For the flock to be reinstated as a clean flock, it shall pass two negative tests not less than twenty-one days apart.

(e) If the pullorum-typhoid disease organism is recovered from young chicks which unquestionably originated from Connecticut pullorum-typhoid passed or Connecticut pullorum-typhoid clean flocks, the flock from which the chicks originated shall be tested at the discretion of the commissioner.

(f) Any poultryman selling eggs for hatching or chicks shall notify the purchaser at once regarding any change in the status of his flock.