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I don't believe it either but, I think they are noticing more people are growing their own livestock and food and that takes money out their pockets and when you mess with currency it's a real issue. Do you test your birds yourself? I still don't know if I will go full NPIP. I want them certified clean from any tests I need. I would like to start a small local hatchery someday in the future so when other places are down people can still get their chicks and I can eventually recover all the investing I've done into keeping them happy and healthy. I love my birds and taking care of them is peaceful for me. I don't like surprises either and the way laws are changing everyday to keep the currency flowing I will do whatever I need to.I honestly don't believe that bolded statement they made. My flock can cause no disease if it has none, and it never has had contagious disease, plus it has no contact with other flocks. I don't buy started birds. I don't go to shows. I don't go to swaps/auctions. I practice biosecurity. They have a healthy management of fresh air and sunshine and good food like most backyard flocks, in contrast to monoculture commercial operations where a sick wild bird can fly into a warehouse operation and die and disease spreads like wildfire because the birds are so crammed together in an artificial environment. The intention of NPIP and some of the articles (research into who is behind those goes a long way) is to protect big agri-biz, the commercial operations. My flock does not endanger those. Their management style does. I've seen those buildings. They are most definitely not disease-proof or wild bird-proof, not the ones around here.