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Silly, I know what NPIP is. My flock is certified. What I am asking is , who or what are you saying you have to be NPIP certified for? You can show your chickens without it and you can sell your chickens without it. I don't know who said you HAVE to be Certified? And NPIP only test for Typhoid and Pullorum, not flu of any kind.
I want to be NPIP, I ship chicks and birds and I sell to 4H. This is a personal preference. I do not show birds but not all shows require NPIP but the larger shows do. When I sell a bird, chicks or eggs to some one they know that we are pullorum typhiod clean. You would be suprised how many people will Just buy from only an NPIP Flock even if they are not certified. There is more of a market for NPIP flocks to sell. What my point is that if I buy birds from someone local they MUST be Npip. The birds will still be seperated in a seperate coop for 30 days.
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NPIP doesn't test for much though. To me (as a buyer) all it signifies is a piece of paper that doesn't mean a whole lot. It doesn't mean the birds aren't carriers of several of other thousands of diseases. Just those few it tests for. Now this is only my opinion but people put too much stock in NPIP. I'd buy birds raised only on one person's land for 10 times more than I'd pay for an NPIP bird at some auction. I bought 2 "NPIP" birds online from a "so-called good breeder". 1 arrived dead, both were missing chunks of feathers all over their bodies, they had poop caked on their feet so thick and hard it was obvious they'd been raised in it. So, like I said, NPIP means nothing to me and it certainly doesn't mean the bird isn't carrying some fatal disease.
So what am I missing in the "importance" of NPIP?
Silly, I know what NPIP is. My flock is certified. What I am asking is , who or what are you saying you have to be NPIP certified for? You can show your chickens without it and you can sell your chickens without it. I don't know who said you HAVE to be Certified? And NPIP only test for Typhoid and Pullorum, not flu of any kind.
I want to be NPIP, I ship chicks and birds and I sell to 4H. This is a personal preference. I do not show birds but not all shows require NPIP but the larger shows do. When I sell a bird, chicks or eggs to some one they know that we are pullorum typhiod clean. You would be suprised how many people will Just buy from only an NPIP Flock even if they are not certified. There is more of a market for NPIP flocks to sell. What my point is that if I buy birds from someone local they MUST be Npip. The birds will still be seperated in a seperate coop for 30 days.
Nate
NPIP doesn't test for much though. To me (as a buyer) all it signifies is a piece of paper that doesn't mean a whole lot. It doesn't mean the birds aren't carriers of several of other thousands of diseases. Just those few it tests for. Now this is only my opinion but people put too much stock in NPIP. I'd buy birds raised only on one person's land for 10 times more than I'd pay for an NPIP bird at some auction. I bought 2 "NPIP" birds online from a "so-called good breeder". 1 arrived dead, both were missing chunks of feathers all over their bodies, they had poop caked on their feet so thick and hard it was obvious they'd been raised in it. So, like I said, NPIP means nothing to me and it certainly doesn't mean the bird isn't carrying some fatal disease.
So what am I missing in the "importance" of NPIP?
