I have had the same thoughts. We have a license to own chickens. The State has our name, number etc. When the inspector came out
last fall he said they would be hiring new inspectors because of the uptik of people have chickens in the yard.
b) If they want your birds bad enough they will get a search warrant and the police will enforce it.
It depends on how aggresive the USDA is and the trickle down effect to each state.
Offically, they can do a shake down and let the news media know all about their efforts to raise a scare in folks.
It is done all the time for different reasons.
Personally, the lower the key on this the better the industrial complex likes it. Altho, they could start throwing back yard people
under the bus and tell the public it is all our fault, take some of the heat off of them. Backyard people fiddling around with chickens
well just how dare they.!
You have good questions.
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I don't have a dog in this AI fight, at least not yet. And seeing that I live in a broiler producing area and that bio-security is tighter in the broiler industry than in the egg industry, I may not ever be effected. But you good people do be advised that the USDA will not need your local police to enforce a search warrant.
The USDA has its own private police force just like the Treasury, ATE&F, DHLS, State Department, Army Corp of Engineering, FDA, FAA, TVA, FWS, ICC, and a dozen or more other Federal Agencies. Why do you think that they have been stockpiling billions of rounds of hollow point ammo the last 6 years, it sure ain't intended to kill tin cans. By the way, it is a violation of international law to shoot a ISIS Terrorist with a hollow point bullet, they are only legal if used to shoot an American citizen!
These "Police" forces include but they are not limited to SWAT teams, light armored vehicles, Mine Resistant armored infantry carriers, automatic crew served weapons, and the usual compliment of so called "Black Helicopters." With today's technology a search warrant is only a phone call and a few zips and jerks of a FAX machine away. If you are genuinely concerned tis better to hide your chickens like my great-grand-pappy hid his still or how my grand dad kept his WWII black market actives out of the government's sight. "Out of sight out of mind," is the buzz words.
