Species Differences

While ratites (emus and ostriches) are classified as poultry, their size and production practices are substantially different from those of other species. For this reason, several of the requirements do not generally apply to the production of ratites but do apply to the sheds used for incubation/hatching and the enclosed brooder sheds holding young ratite chicks. The paragraphs which have such limited applicability are 2.2, 2.7, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 4.3.5 (a comment is inserted into each of these sections noting these special circumstances).

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