Buying Hatching Eggs Safe?

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

Unsure if this is the right area.

Aside from shipping eggs & the risk involved with that.
Do you have to be careful with germs/diseases/etc...that you would bringing in a new member to the flock from someone else's flock??

We are looking to get a few more chickens of specific breeds; needing specific things but the prices & minimums are outrageous.

Would love some input from you all.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Do you have to be careful with germs/diseases/etc...that you would bringing in a new member to the flock from someone else's flock??

For sure, the risk is high enough..

Mycoplasma, (MS/MG), salmonella, IB, etc would be major considerations..

https://bitchinchickens.com/2021/05/06/vertical-transmission-of-pathogens/

This link had a nice chart list of what disease and how it's transmitted.. (I think transovarian and vertical transmission are the same)

https://en.engormix.com/poultry-ind...r-vertically-horizontally-transmitted_a36575/

Shipping eggs across state lines is illegal without NPIP certification.. but which unfortunately does not test for many of these things and varies by state.

 

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

For sure, the risk is high enough..

Mycoplasma, (MS/MG), salmonella, IB, etc would be major considerations..

https://bitchinchickens.com/2021/05/06/vertical-transmission-of-pathogens/

This link had a nice chart list of what disease and how it's transmitted.. (I think transovarian and vertical transmission are the same)

https://en.engormix.com/poultry-ind...r-vertically-horizontally-transmitted_a36575/

Shipping eggs across state lines is illegal without NPIP certification.. but which unfortunately does not test for many of these things and varies by state.

lol then that’s a freakin joke.
Already discovered that last week; NPIP is not worth crap for the most part as it doesn’t even test for major issues that could affect the flock, like MG.