Do you have to be NPIP certified????

[Fluffy Lambs]

Npip only test birds for AI so for me thats absolutely useless which is why I dont ship eggs. As id want birds to be tested for mg more then AI because that effects birds and hatching eggs.

I agree about the mg but I remember people telling me about birds with ai just dropping dead sooo

 

[AGeese]

If you do join NPIP you'll be testing regularly and of course subject to their rules. That might justify an increase in price. Otherwise I have no shame asking for 4 bucks which really should be $5 a dozen these days with inflation for pastured chickens (though labeling is another story)

I mean the price of eggs was driven way down by the factories selling 60 packs for 4 bucks a few years back.

 

[WallyG74]

Great chicken!

 

[Sc_chickengirl]

Great chicken!
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Thankyou! I've had some very nice silver duckwing chicks come from her!

 

[Quarterhorses1]

Pretty birds!

 

[Sc_chickengirl]

Thankyou!

Pretty birds!

 

[WVduckchick]

Can anyone post a link to where it says that you cannot mail eggs across state lines unless NPIP?

I know when I checked in to it a long time ago, if you become NPIP certified, they make you agree to only buy/sell from other NPIP participants, so I didn't sign up. I've mailed tons of eggs! Personally, if they come out and test once a year, or however often, that doesn't guarantee that a flock hasn't gotten sick a week after testing. Sorry, I just wasn't a fan of the program, but I'll do more research now, as its been a while since I looked into it.

On the US Postal Service site, I found these shipping guidelines, and found a section on eggs in the perishable section. It doesn't mention "hatching" eggs specifically. No mention of eggs in the Live Birds section either.

https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52un.htm​

54 Eggs​

Eggs are mailable in domestic mail subject to the following general conditions:

1. They are individually cushioned.
2. They are otherwise packed to withstand shocks encountered during normal Postal Service handling.
3. They are not likely to be harmed by anticipated temperature changes while in Postal Service custody.

 

[Sc_chickengirl]

Can anyone post a link to where it says that you cannot mail eggs across state lines unless NPIP?

I know when I checked in to it a long time ago, if you become NPIP certified, they make you agree to only buy/sell from other NPIP participants, so I didn't sign up. I've mailed tons of eggs! Personally, if they come out and test once a year, or however often, that doesn't guarantee that a flock hasn't gotten sick a week after testing. Sorry, I just wasn't a fan of the program, but I'll do more research now, as its been a while since I looked into it.

On the US Postal Service site, I found these shipping guidelines, and found a section on eggs in the perishable section. It doesn't mention "hatching" eggs specifically. No mention of eggs in the Live Birds section either.

https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52un.htm​

54 Eggs​

Eggs are mailable in domestic mail subject to the following general conditions:

1. They are individually cushioned.
2. They are otherwise packed to withstand shocks encountered during normal Postal Service handling.
3. They are not likely to be harmed by anticipated temperature changes while in Postal Service custody.

So you can ship over state lines without being npip?

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Idk it's probably just another marketing thing besides trying to eradicate PT and AI

 

[WVduckchick]

So you can ship over state lines without being npip?

I've done it because I couldn't find anywhere that says I can't. The USPS allows shipping of eggs, as far as I can find. I don't know who says I can't.

@JacinLarkwell can you site where you got your information?