is it true that Trump signed executive orders where chicks no longer to be mailed USPS after sept 2020?

[Citytransplant]

Because of Newcastle disease, parts of California was banned to ship chicks by the USPS.

Although I have very strong feelings about the current adminstration, as I am sure most of us have in this political climate, I sincerely feel that if someone asks a questions they should be treated with respect.

 

[reddogmaster2]

My newest chicks! They sure are cute and hungry!

 

[reddogmaster2]

My apologies, I meant no offense to anyone by calling my newest poultry "chicks". I should have used a non-binary genderless description.

Also I did not mean to "body shame" them by calling them "hungry" and I should have known better to be so "sexist" by calling them "cute".

My bad.

 

[Ruthster55]

I agree that comment should be deleted, but the original question is one that should be answered.

I've been planning a move and my mother-in-law keeps telling me not to move to certain places because "gardening is illegal" or "chickens are illegal" there. I don't know where people get information but it's important that they have people to talk about it. Sometimes stories grow out of control based on a little seedling of information that gets misinterpreted and never challenged.

I haven't heard anything about mail chicks being made illegal. I do remember there being some big thing about the USPS running out of money though. I'm not sure if that has been resolved yet.

Best post of this thread.

Maybe the best thing that poultry keepers can do is support adequate funding for the USPS so that the little chickens can keep coming in the mail.

https://news.google.com/search?q=USPS&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en

 

[reddogmaster2]

One more thing regarding the original post;

Executive Orders are NOT LAW.

Look up how a bill becomes a law (Schoolhouse Rock!).

Even if an EO was issued it would not be unlawful to send chicks via USPS.

RedDogMaster2 Out!

 

[pozees2]

1 - USPS is the only way to have chicks shipped, UPS and FedEx want nothing to do with it, and at no time do I foresee them ever agreeing to do it for no profit, which is what USPS does
2 - accusing every local seller of being a crook harms a lot of perfectly nice and honest people who sell hatchlings they have opted not to keep and raise, who tell the truth - I advertise my chicks as straight run, I remind people when they inquire that they are straight run, I tell them that straight run means I have no idea what gender the chicks are - almost always 50% M/F. Most people in my general area are the same. Supporting your local breeder means there will *be* a local breeder for the day you can't get any hatchery chicks (like right now).

 

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