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Hatching eggs after 30 day quarantine? Dang, that's not too good. Who, and how do they decide, decides which will be quarantined and which won't? And declaring them as Imported Food as well?
"They" certainly don't make it easy. Those chocolates are luscious though! Hope you can get it all worked out, look forward to seeing more of them.
There are some countries where eggs are required to be quarantined for 30 days. How this works is that the eggs are actually incubated and hatched in an approved quarantine area. After the chicks hatch, they are required to be quarantined for 30 days, then tested for a variety of diseases.
I imported hatching eggs from the UK in 2009 and did not require quarantine. Hatching eggs from most areas of the UK do NOT have to be quarantined.
You can get all the info you need requiring importing eggs here
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ You can also call for more information. I found them to be very helpful.
The US does require the QT of hatching eggs from some countries but, that does NOT INCLUDE THE UK. As of rigth now, I haven't heard of ANYONE with chocolate orps.
There have been rumors for years of so and so that hatched them or a friend of a friend but, alas, they have yet to show themselves.
GFF does not have the chocolates yet.
And, no, crossing our fingers and hoping for the best is NOT an option
I would love to go and pick up but, I have my hands full here with two kids, a farm full of animals and a grouchy husband. We could all band together and send someone to do the transaction but, I was thinking more along the lines of a bank account that deals with international transactions such as this. We would all wire our money to that account and all be account owners... The funds would be released when the import center claims the birds. If anyone has any thoughts, concerns, bright ideas, please feel free to pm me.
So far we have 5 serious people who are able to do this. One person is in CA and there are a couple more semi-interested in CA so, two seperate shipments.. one to NY and one to LA is possible. I would like to place our order this month so they can be out of QT by Christmas.
Im waiting to hear back form the import center to see if it is possible to share QT and what EXACTLY are the vetting fees.
There are many folks pming asking about FDER (first dozen egg rights) and Im not sure how everyone feels about this. I was thinking of hooking up these folks with their closest importer and they could decide wethere they would like to do this. The first dozen (non-pullet and pre-tested for fertility) eggs would be picked up by the first right owner. Im not sure what the price should be but, was thinking around $300... or more... or could be up to the importers themselves. I would not suggest shipping these eggs at that high a price. I remember the black copper marans fiasco and how disapointed folks were after spending that much loot and getting eggs damaged by the PO.
Pipnpeeps, I am now a Marylander so.. I escaped the regime known as the WV NPIP program
The only place worse than there is VA
And, Im not sure the food requirement thing includes us... a question I will ask but, Im fairly sure.
I have a friend who's father is an importer-exporter of lumber and Im going to see how they go about payment. He says the funds aren't released typically until the goods have arrived.. im pretty sure the UK breeder will want some sort of good faith deposit as well... we'll just have to get more info on this. I want to make sure everyone is protected before we proceed.
