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ByDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairscoral_ridge_57e41b

When and how to test for salmonella if you breed turkeys, and what happens if a flock tests positive. Testing is part of the salmonella national control programme (NCP).

Adapted edition

Agricultural biosecurity
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
14
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-17
Category
Safety & operations
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

When and how to test for salmonella if you breed turkeys, and what happens if a flock tests positive. Testing is part of the salmonella national control programme (NCP). Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.

Contents
  • When you must test for salmonella
  • Before you test for salmonella
  • Register places where you have a hatchery or keep poultry
  • Moving breeding turkeys to your premises
  • Importing hatching eggs or day-old poults from other countries
  • Exporting hatching eggs or poults
  • Ask your vet or a NCP-approved laboratory for advice
  • When to collect samples
  • Collect samples on the day the poults hatch or arrive from a hatchery
  • Collect samples from poults at 4 weeks of age and again 2 weeks before moving them to the breeding unit
  • Collect regular samples from your adult breeding flocks on farm or at your hatchery
  • Collect samples from your farm to test your adult breeding flock
  • Collect samples from your hatchery to test your adult breeding flock
  • Pre-slaughter sampling of breeding turkeys
  • Avoid taking samples after giving antibiotics
  • How to collect samples
Source and licence
Salmonella: test your breeding turkeys

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Salmonella: test your breeding turkeys’ (updated 11 November 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.

Version history
  • v1.017/09/2026
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