Shipping chicks that are not day olds?

[keesmom]

I posted on his thread already, but here is what I suggest.

Contact your state Department of Agriculture (Arkansas first). Just call and ask the state poultry inspector how you can go about getting the proper paperwork for you to send the one bird. Maybe the whole flock will need to be tested, maybe they know of a vet who can give you a certificate of inspection. But instead of guessing what needs to be done just give them a call. You may also have to call Michigan's Dept of Agriculture to see if there are any restrictions in place.

 

[HappyHensFarmWV]

Several of my dogs had the TDI designation, but I would not lie about an animal (or bird) being a therapy animal when it is not the case.  First, therapy animals have been trained and pass a test.  If it is your own personal animal for yourself, it should be trained to do something or fill a need (example sense when a seizure is coming on, or low blood sugar, seeing eye dog,  pick up something you've dropped. etc)
    I wasn't aware that a dog with the TDI designation which visits in a variety of settings and is willing to meet and comfort people is allowed carte blanche in traveling.  Plus with it getting harder and harder to travel with animals and more and more restrictions, if you are caught in a lie, that may make it harder for the next legitimate therapy animal to travel if more restrictions are put in place.
    While it is illegal to ask a person about a disability, legitimate therapy animals do have ID.
    I have had parrots shipped and they are put in a small carrier with chopped up fruit and vegetables (lots of oranges, apples, cherries, and grapes) to supply them with nourishment and liquid.  That may be the best route to take. 
     After rereading your post I'm adding: You say the baby is 4-6 weeks old.  It is possible, I've done it a few times, to add a singleton, even a young cockerel, to an existing flock containing roosters.  That boy was about 9 weeks old.  Young, but the weather was getting cold and I didn't want him being alone.  I had tried to add him to a few a month older but those were really mean to him and drew blood.  So when I decided to put them into the main flock I put him in too, figuring the other young ones would be too busy to bother with him.  It worked.
    I hung out in the coop most of the day.  After the first day they let him alone (The adult rooster actually befriended him) and gradually he integrated.  He's a beautiful rooster, #2 in ranking and both roosters are still with the flock.
   I would wait until he stopped making baby noises and perhaps he could be in a pen within a pen or in a wired in area next to where he is going to be integrated so the birds can get used to each other.

You are correct about a therapy animal..but I was referring to a support/companion animal. There are different requirements for the 2, the companion for medical needs could even be a snake if it helped that person deal with whatever issue was needing dealt with.
I'm not saying that it is a good idea by any means, just a way to get the bird on a flight with her if other means could not be found.