NPIP does not mean a lot to me. The only time I have bought birds from a breeder 5 years ago, her NPIP testor was coming later that day, and I thought they only came once a year. She had 5 hens and a rooster of a very hard to get breed at the time. After we had them all packed in the car, she told me that one hen had been missing for almost a month, and had just turned up the day before in good condition. I kind of freaked out hearing that, since she had many neighbors in a rural area, and the hen could have been with other birds. I was too polite to protest, so we went home with the chickens. We were fortunate that none became sick in the month of quarantine before adding them to our existing birds. But just thinking about it, and knowing that I could have brought a disease hime, I will never bring anything home except chicks from a hatchery in the future.
