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Really? It's just $25 in Tennessee to be NPIP certified?
Here in Wisconsin, it's anywhere from $40 - $400, depending on the number of breeding birds you have. I'm filling out the paperwork right now, trying to decide if I can get away with a $40 Fanciers/Exhibition fee (you're allowed to breed birds with that, but they're supposed to be "specialty" breeds, other than meat-type and egg-type birds, and I don't know if my Khaki and Dark Campbell ducks fit in there), or if I should just go with the $80 for having 1 to 1,000 breeding birds.
But yeah, testing and all the paperwork is a BIG headache.
Our county testers charge 50 cents/bird, we have a friend in the neighboring county that comes and tests our birds for free - we just feed her lunch.
I don't know what the state tester will charge.
Yep, but didn't they get all wacky up in your neck of the woods about NAIS and stupid stuff like that?
Someone mentioned that their program is administered by the USDA. I know that if I've lost my tester's business card I can call our state vet and he gives me the info again (he really should just schedule me for an email every year to give me the info). I call the tester, he comes out, tests ten percent of my birds. Does a multi page form with my flock info, test results including AI and leaves me with a copy. I can use that form copy to enter any show in the state.
If I want to take the next step I can pay $25.00 to be certified. All it really does is provide me with a laminated card instead of the flimsy form copy.
You will find that NPIP testing is easier and cheaper to get done in states that have large poultry industries. And our testers are paid by the state. They will go the extra mile to protect those commercial industries. Yet, the recent out breaks of ILT came from commerical producers. Go figure. Its our private flocks that need the protecting.
Really? It's just $25 in Tennessee to be NPIP certified?
Here in Wisconsin, it's anywhere from $40 - $400, depending on the number of breeding birds you have. I'm filling out the paperwork right now, trying to decide if I can get away with a $40 Fanciers/Exhibition fee (you're allowed to breed birds with that, but they're supposed to be "specialty" breeds, other than meat-type and egg-type birds, and I don't know if my Khaki and Dark Campbell ducks fit in there), or if I should just go with the $80 for having 1 to 1,000 breeding birds.
But yeah, testing and all the paperwork is a BIG headache.
I don't know what the state tester will charge.
Yep, but didn't they get all wacky up in your neck of the woods about NAIS and stupid stuff like that?
Someone mentioned that their program is administered by the USDA. I know that if I've lost my tester's business card I can call our state vet and he gives me the info again (he really should just schedule me for an email every year to give me the info). I call the tester, he comes out, tests ten percent of my birds. Does a multi page form with my flock info, test results including AI and leaves me with a copy. I can use that form copy to enter any show in the state.
If I want to take the next step I can pay $25.00 to be certified. All it really does is provide me with a laminated card instead of the flimsy form copy.
You will find that NPIP testing is easier and cheaper to get done in states that have large poultry industries. And our testers are paid by the state. They will go the extra mile to protect those commercial industries. Yet, the recent out breaks of ILT came from commerical producers. Go figure. Its our private flocks that need the protecting.
