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    transporting my flock across country

    I checked about the NPIP...it's relatively cheap, but Arizona doesn't test for avian flu, and Alabama requires it. The state vet says they don't have the manpower for the testing. So its pay a lot of money for the flu test, or hope no one questions the NPIP certification.
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    transporting my flock across country

    They have checkpoints on main roads leaving areas near the border...like I-10 leaving Tucson. But they are looking for illegals aliens and drugs...I don't know if they would care about my chickens or not...
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    transporting my flock across country

    but I'm leaving arizona, not entering
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    transporting my flock across country

    True, even dogs and cats have to have a vet certification, but it is only to show they are vaccinated for rabies, which you have to do anyway. Unfortunately, there are very few vets here in my city that deal with chickens, so I'm feeling that they are free to charge whatever they want.
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    transporting my flock across country

    It's a 25 hour drive from AZ to AL. I don't know who would stop me...would the police? I just don't want to risk having them confinscated
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    transporting my flock across country

    I'm starting to think it might make more sense to get them npip certified
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    transporting my flock across country

    I'm rehoming as many as I can, but the ones I want to keep are pets...it would hurt me a lot to give them up. I just think it's ridiculous that you can bring your cats, dog, ferrets, etc across state lines, but because they are chickens, I have to pay thousands of dollars!
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    transporting my flock across country

    Hi everyone, I've got a flock of around 50 chickens that I was planning to cut down to around 10 just to make moving them across country more manageable. I found out that the state I am moving to wants a health certificate and testing for avian flu and typhoid. I spoke to the vet and they said...
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    Weird Egg Smell

    I sniffed a freshly laid egg today, and it didn't really smell at all. it seems like it's only eggs that have been laid earlier, then refridgerated, then allowed to warm up again
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    Weird Egg Smell

    Pretzel rats! lol I guess my nose is kind of sensitive. All I know is that newly hatched chick smell grosses me out, especially if I'm trying to eat an egg!
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    Weird Egg Smell

    my daughter noticed the smell too. She thinks it smells like plastic. But maybe she inherited my super-smelling superpowers. lol But I pulled the same eggs out of the fridge today and they didn't smell anymore. I'm thinking maybe they only smell when they warm up a little.
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    Weird Egg Smell

    not really any change...the hatched eggs smelled just like this last year. Maybe the fresh eggs have always smelled like this and I never noticed before. I cracked one in a bowl and left it a couple of minutes, and came back and smelled it again...it just smelled like egg.
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    Weird Egg Smell

    OK, this is gong to sound crazy. I noticed today that some eggs in the fridge smell like freshly hatched chicks! I noticed that smell when my broody hen hatched several chicks last summer. It's hard to describe...but it makes me think of blood or something. The chicks smelled like it for a day...
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    Lost 2 blue Andalusians in a month

    Thank you....I thought of that, but don't really have money or a place to get it done.
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    Lost 2 blue Andalusians in a month

    I'm so sad...I lost one of my favorite blues today. Found her dead on the floor of the coop. She didn't have any signs of trauma, and she wasn't acting sick the day before. She was about a year old. I had four blue andalusians that I got at the same time. Here they are...they liked to sleep on...
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