How do you ship a live rooster?

[sarahloveschickens]

Hi. I want sure where to post this... so sorry if its in the wrong spot... How do you ship a live rooster? Im not sure how

 

[sarahloveschickens]

anyone.. please?

 

[DUccleDude]

I think you have to get a special box and find out if your post office will ship live birds. over night shipping I think

 

[okiehen]

You can ship with American Airlines priority shipping. You will need to have a shipping box that is Airline approved for live birds. The cost will be by weight and size of box. Look at the web site and give them a call.
www.aacargo.com

 

[orcasislandchickens]

I just got 2 hens today. You must have an approved box. Then you can ship through the post office, just like sending chicks. You put food and a watery substance like juicy fruit in the box and send it the fastest way possible, overnight if you can.

My hens got here in a day and a half.

On the box it says Horizon Micro Systems for shipping live birds for the Us Postal service.

www.hm-e.net
ph. 800 443-2498

Do a search on byc for shipping birds and you will find some very good info.

Caution it is not cheap: I have paid $40- $60 (including the box)

I shipped a parrot once Delta Dash for $90

 

[bruselee]

How do i rooster ship here from Vietnam

 

[JennieRD]

Good luck, you have to go through a series of paperwork with the federal government to be approved. Its not easy to bring poultry in from other countries. Last I heard, the only farm given approval for imports was Green Fire Farms. Google importing poultry into the United States

I looked into it once, and after looking over the red tape, it wasn't worth it. By the time the bird gets her you will have invested a small fortune. If you can find your breed here in the US I would go that route, Id rather pay 150.00 for a good rooster here than 500-1000 to have it die from being stressed out in transit.

 

[bobbi-j]

How do i rooster ship here from Vietnam

It would be a lot cheaper to buy one there in Arkansas...

 

[keesmom]

How do i rooster ship here from Vietnam

You can't. APHIS has a long list of countries and regions from which it prohibits importation of poultry, including hatching eggs. Vietnam is on that list.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

In the past I helped EXPORT many chickens to Mexico, Saipan, and the Philippines but I am totally ignorant about how to go about importing a single feather. I don't think that you can even import the neck hackles off of roosters anymore, even when you ship them in a container of formaldehyde to kill the germs.