11th Hour Poultry
Chirping
- Feb 10, 2024
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Don't worry about NPIP, worry about how she takes care of and feeds her birds. NPIP is worthless because the flock test and form is good for a year. But wild birds, rodents, and even flies can infect your birds and the incubation period is only from a day to 10 days.They would be brassy back blue rosecombs. Four of them. One brassy back blue cockerel, one brassy back splash cockerel, one brassy back pullet, and one brassy back blue pullet.
$100 for each bird and $145 for shipping.
She's not NPIP tho. They are show birds.
So, basically, you can get your flock tested free on Mar. 1, 2024, then have a rodent or a fly or a wild bird infect your flock on Mar. 2, 2024, collect eggs for hatching on, say, Mar. 15, 2024, and have every egg infected by "vertical transmission", then have some of the chicks survive, and be able to sell them as "NPIP TYPHOID AND PULLORUM FREE".....
You could sell Typhoid and Pullorum affected carriers for an entire year because that's how long your NPIP certified flock lasts. Sounds like BS doesn't it? Maybe because it is. It's not to protect the US from Typhoid or Pullorum. It's to have control of and know where chickens are being sold outside of the commercial industry. That's why NPIP people need your name and address if you buy from them. I'd stay as far away from NPIP flocks as possible. But, that's just me.