- (a) All poultry or flocks of poultry infected with ornithosis shall be immediately quarantined by the Texas Animal Health Commission. No poultry will be allowed to move from quarantined premises except to slaughter at a slaughtering establishment maintaining federal or state postmortem inspection. The owner shall treat the infected flock at the owner's expense with Aureomycin in accordance with label directions or with other remedies approved by the executive director.
- (b) All dead birds shall be burned or buried as described in the Texas Agriculture Code, §161.004.
Source Note:The provisions of this §33.1 adopted to be effective November 1, 1993, 18 TexReg 7156.