Order of the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Marine Fisheries N ° 2125-05 of 13 kaada 1426 (December 15, 2005) fixing the health requirements which day-old chicks must meet
The Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Maritime Fisheries,
Considering the decree n ° 2-04-684 of 14 kaada 1425 (December 27, 2004) taken for the application of the law n ° 49-99 relating to the sanitary protection of poultry farms, to the control of the production and the marketing of poultry products, in particular Article 11 thereof,
Ministrial Decree
Article 1: The purpose of this order is to define the health requirements which day-old chicks must meet.
Article 2: Day- old chicks marketed must be free from Pullorosis - Typhosis.
Article 3: A batch of day-old chicks is said to be affected by Pullorosis - Typhosis if:
- An isolation of Salmonella Pullorum-Gallinarum is obtained from these same chicks, confirmed by an isolation of the same pathogen from their parents;
- Or an isolation of Salmonella Pullorum-Gallinarum is obtained from the breeders, parents of these chicks.
Article 4: The samples required for the analyzes provided for in article 3 of this decree will be a sample of 20 second choice chicks obtained from the hatcheries of the hatcheries concerned, and / or corpses, supplemented by a minimum of 20 cloacal swabs , from the batch of original breeders
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Article 5: Day- old chicks must come from breeding flocks regularly subjected to the self-checks provided for by the Moroccan standard cited in article 22 of the abovementioned decree or to checks by the competent veterinary authorities. Mycoplasma Gallisepticum screws , with negative results.
This provision will come into force two years after the publication of all the regulatory texts relating to the above-mentioned decree.
Article 6: The samples required for the analyzes provided for in article 5 above consist of blood samples which will be treated by rapid agglutination on a slide, a test which, in the event of positivity obtained after dilution of the sera to 1/5, must be confirmed by the "ELISA" technique.
These tests can be supplemented by other certainty diagnostic analyzes, such as bacteriological isolation or the search for the infectious agent by PCR.
Article 7: The self-checks provided for in article 5 of this decree will relate to 0.5 to 1% of the poultry of all the buildings of the farm concerned, without exceeding 200 subjects per batch of breeders.
If two series of samples taken one month apart each reveal a minimum of 20% of positive sera, after 1/5 dilution, with rapid agglutination on a slide confirmed by the "ELISA", the batch of breeders concerned by these self-checks is considered positive.
Article 8: The samples necessary for the analyzes mentioned in articles 3, 5 and 6 of this decree are carried out either by the competent veterinary authorities, or under the responsibility of health veterinarians who oversee the hatcheries and farms of original breeders. , during the self-checks mentioned in article 23 of the above-mentioned decree.
The managers of these hatcheries and farms are required to facilitate the execution of these samples and to provide any information useful for these investigations.
Article 9: The Veterinary Services may carry out spot checks on the diseases mentioned in Articles 3 and 5 of this Order at the level of hatcheries and breeding farms. The costs of these investigations are the responsibility of the Livestock Department.
Article 10: The analyzes mentioned in articles 3, 5 and 6 of this decree are carried out in laboratories approved or recognized as competent by the central veterinary authorities.
Article 11: The techniques concerning the analyzes mentioned in articles 3, 5 and 6 of this decree are defined and updated by the Livestock Department.
Article 12: The Director of Livestock is responsible for the application of this decree which will be published in the official bulletin.
The Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Maritime Fisheries.