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[perchie.girl]

Hi Deb, welcome to the thread!

Interesting testing. Here we have some demands on imported eggs/poultry, those mainly concern Newcastles dicease, Salmonella gallinarum, Salmonella pullorum, Salmonella arizonae (only turkeys), Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma meleagridis.

In addition to these, eggs need to be disinfected, and all kinds of crazy strict veterinary inspections on the flocks of origin apply, with strict time frames (flocks need to be inspected on the same day as the eggs are shipped etc.) Also, you need to register as an importer, which costs about 500 euros I think, and is only valid for a year. In smaller scale import (<20 eggs), only the Newcastle and Salmonella testing is necessary.

I think the Philosopy is similar where as you are importing from another country we are sending eggs from state to state. Though yours is importation there will be stricter requirements.

To bring Chickens in from Europe or other countries the importation fees in the US are prohibitive. I believe in some cases can cost upwards to 10,000 per bird.

For what its worth a single owner may box up and ship a chicken in the US without being NPIP approved. The difference is that chicken will have to have an accompanying health certificate. Based on what I have read on the subject. OF course if there is someone who has done it here they may have a clearer take on it.

And shipping of chickens and eggs may be done within the state without any restrictions. Unless there is an outbreak of some sort in the area... but then everything would be quarantined.

Way back when I was a teen there was a Newcastle outbreak caused by infected birds flying up from Mexico. I cant tell you how many birds were destroyed over that here. That included even cage birds and exotics like Macaws.

deb

 

[JW12]

Deb, as I have been a 25 year old college student not so many years ago, I assure you, us boys are never too busy to worry about girls.

X'2!!!

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, as I have been a 25 year old college student not so many years ago, I assure you, us boys are never too busy to worry about girls.

Gawd I wish he would find a nice girl.... I have a shy one on my hands. Right now hes in melt down mode First weeks of classes this semester and hes just discovered he can change his degree.... I will fill you all in on what he finally gets when the dust settles.

deb

 

[vehve]

Gawd I wish he would find a nice girl.... I have a shy one on my hands. Right now hes in melt down mode First weeks of classes this semester and hes just discovered he can change his degree.... I will fill you all in on what he finally gets when the dust settles.

deb

The nice girl will find him - it helps to be smart and funny though. And strikingly handsome. And he should play an instrument. Not the clarinet though.

 

[Bunnylady]

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Gawd I wish he would find a nice girl.... I have a shy one on my hands. Right now hes in melt down mode First weeks of classes this semester and hes just discovered he can change his degree.... I will fill you all in on what he finally gets when the dust settles.

deb

The nice girl will find him - it helps to be smart and funny though. And strikingly handsome. And he should play an instrument. Not the clarinet though.

Maybe not the accordion, either?

 

[bamadude]

My neighbor has a male dog that keeps trying to mate my other neighbors male dog.

 

[bamadude]

I told them both that i dont care what their dogs do...as long as they stay away from my chickens

 

[bamadude]

Bunnylady: weird al has a new album out called mandatory fun or something like that. There are several funny songs but my favorite is called handy

 

[bamadude]

The aluminum foil song is funny too

 

[Alaskan]

Accordion music is cool.