---
kind: "section"
citation: "9 C.F.R. § 145.32"
title: "9"
number: "145.32"
heading: "Participation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/9/145.32"
---

# §145.32. Participation.


Participating flocks of multiplier meat type chickens, and the eggs and chicks produced from them, shall comply with the applicable general provisions of subpart A of this part and the special provisions of this subpart C.

- (a) Started chickens shall lose their identity under Plan terminology when not maintained by Plan participants under the conditions prescribed in [§ 145.5(a)](/cfr/9/145.5.md?p=a).
- (b) **Hatching eggs produced by multiplier breeding flocks should be nest clean.** They may be fumigated in accordance with [part 147](/cfr/9/part147.md) of this subchapter or otherwise sanitized.
- (c) Any nutritive material provided to chicks must be free of the avian pathogens that are officially represented in the Plan disease classifications listed in [§ 145.10](/cfr/9/145.10.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[36 FR 23112, Dec. 3, 1971, as amended at 40 FR 1502, Jan. 8, 1975; 41 FR 48724, Nov. 5, 1976. Redesignated at 44 FR 61586, Oct. 26, 1979, and amended at 49 FR 19802, May 10, 1984; 57 FR 57341, Dec. 4, 1992; 65 FR 8018, Feb. 17, 2000; 68 FR 64510, Nov. 14, 2003; 72 FR 1419, Jan. 12, 2007; 79 FR 38756, July 9, 2014]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 8301-8317; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.4.

### Source

Source: 36 FR 23112, Dec. 3, 1971, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 44 FR 61586, Oct. 26, 1979.

### Amendments

[36 FR 23112, Dec. 3, 1971, as amended at 40 FR 1502, Jan. 8, 1975; 41 FR 48724, Nov. 5, 1976. Redesignated at 44 FR 61586, Oct. 26, 1979, and amended at 49 FR 19802, May 10, 1984; 57 FR 57341, Dec. 4, 1992; 65 FR 8018, Feb. 17, 2000; 68 FR 64510, Nov. 14, 2003; 72 FR 1419, Jan. 12, 2007; 79 FR 38756, July 9, 2014]