FedEx won't ship my chicken for necropsy!! What do I do??

[Taj_MaChicken]

I looked at their website, and technically "livestock" is on their Prohibited list:

FedEx Cross Border Global Prohibited Items

• All commodities valued over US$20,000 without approval
• One-of-a-kind/irreplaceable articles such as artwork valued over US$500,000 each
• Flammables with a flash point of 140 degrees Fahrenheit or less
• Auto parts with fluids in them
• Fine art
• Fine jewelry
• Furs
• Pornography/obscene material
• Precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum in the form of bullion, coins or ingots
• Watches valued over US$1000
• Weapons and weapons accessories
• Bullion and money of every description such as (but without prejudice to the generality of this clause) cash, bank notes, coins, currency notes or currency of any kind
• Stamps (postage or revenue); vouchers; tokens; tickets of any kind; and credit, debit or cash cards
• Time-sensitive or critical written materials or documents including, but not limited to, bids and contract proposals
• Contraband including, but not limited to, illicit drugs and counterfeit goods
• Livestock, bloodstock and living animals
• Human remains
• Division 1.1 Explosives (e.g., mines and nitroglycerine)
• Division 1.2 Explosives (e.g., rockets and warheads)
• Division 1.3 Explosives (e.g., smoke signals, projectiles and commercial fireworks)
• Division 1.5 Explosives (e.g., blasting agents)
• Division 1.6 Explosives
• Division 2.3 Toxic Gas
• Division 6.2 Infectious Substances
• Class 7 Radioactive Material including White I, Yellow II, Yellow III and fissile material

 

[OhZark Biddies]

So I have a question... if you have a bird with an unknown disease... how do you know that you’re not spreading the disease when shipping it?

I’m not intending to be argumentative... I’m just genuinely curious.

 

[BigMoma3]

So I have a question... if you have a bird with an unknown disease... how do you know that you’re not spreading the disease when shipping it?

I’m not intending to be argumentative... I’m just genuinely curious.

The bird is being sent to a lab and specific department in that lab that works with dead animals, not live. So I would think if packaged according to federal law for biological substances that there's no chance of it spreading unless someone working on the animal has chickens at home to whom they could carry it back. That being said, the same goes for going to the grocery store when you have a sick animal on your property. Bacteria and virus's could be carried via your clothing and picked up from someone els's clothing and carried home.
Practicing good biosecurity is the only thing I know to do.

 

[BigMoma3]

I looked at their website, and technically "livestock" is on their Prohibited list:

FedEx Cross Border Global Prohibited Items

• All commodities valued over US$20,000 without approval
• One-of-a-kind/irreplaceable articles such as artwork valued over US$500,000 each
• Flammables with a flash point of 140 degrees Fahrenheit or less
• Auto parts with fluids in them
• Fine art
• Fine jewelry
• Furs
• Pornography/obscene material
• Precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum in the form of bullion, coins or ingots
• Watches valued over US$1000
• Weapons and weapons accessories
• Bullion and money of every description such as (but without prejudice to the generality of this clause) cash, bank notes, coins, currency notes or currency of any kind
• Stamps (postage or revenue); vouchers; tokens; tickets of any kind; and credit, debit or cash cards
• Time-sensitive or critical written materials or documents including, but not limited to, bids and contract proposals
• Contraband including, but not limited to, illicit drugs and counterfeit goods
• Livestock, bloodstock and living animals
• Human remains
• Division 1.1 Explosives (e.g., mines and nitroglycerine)
• Division 1.2 Explosives (e.g., rockets and warheads)
• Division 1.3 Explosives (e.g., smoke signals, projectiles and commercial fireworks)
• Division 1.5 Explosives (e.g., blasting agents)
• Division 1.6 Explosives
• Division 2.3 Toxic Gas
• Division 6.2 Infectious Substances
• Class 7 Radioactive Material including White I, Yellow II, Yellow III and fissile material

Then how are you supposed to ship it? Do you think it's refering to living livestock? Otherwise, I don't know why all the labs would say to use FedEx if they know it's prohibited.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Then how are you supposed to ship it? Do you think it's refering to living livestock? Otherwise, I don't know why all the labs would say to use FedEx if they know it's prohibited.

Is a dressed (plucked, cleaned, etc.) chicken or a ham livestock? FedEx ships both. I don't think there's much difference between a necroscopy chicken and a dressed one—definitely far more than there is between a necroscopy chicken and a live chicken.

 

[PirateGirl]

Then how are you supposed to ship it? Do you think it's refering to living livestock? Otherwise, I don't know why all the labs would say to use FedEx if they know it's prohibited.

I’m fairly certain the list refers to living livestock. I have seen another line item (may have been in USPS website) that specifically references things like deceased animals, animal products, and biological materials.

 

[PirateGirl]

https://www.vet.cornell.edu/animal-health-diagnostic-center/testing/shipping/necropsy-specimens

 

[Taj_MaChicken]

I’m fairly certain the list refers to living livestock. I have seen another line item (may have been in USPS website) that specifically references things like deceased animals, animal products, and biological materials.

I assumed it meant living, but their employees might take it literally as to mean no animal.

 

[BigMoma3]

Is a dressed (plucked, cleaned, etc.) chicken or a ham livestock? FedEx ships both. I don't think there's much difference between a necroscopy chicken and a dressed one—definitely far more than there is between a necroscopy chicken and a live chicken.

That's great! I might just tell them that if they want to argue with me!! I needed that to lighten the mood. Thank you

 

[OhZark Biddies]

.... So I would think if packaged according to federal law for biological substances....

Thanks for the reply!

It’s more the packaging and delivery that I was curious about... more than after it arrives at the lab...

Is there somewhere that these federal packaging guidelines are listed?

And secondly how does FedEx ( or any other carrier ) verify that those guidelines were followed?