Tractor Supply federal tracking!?

[Big C]

I called the TAHC and was referred to this page:
http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/sos/adopted/4.AGRICULTURE.html#233
Our local TSC had the policy of 6 and I was told its to help the store sell thru their stock quickly since no one there was really qualified or had time to care for them.

 

[ScoobyRoo]

I didn't read all the posts (sorry if someone mentioned this already)but I read on another thread that they possibly are making a limit of buying chicks, is to discourage those that want to buy just "1" for Easter or just because they are 'cute' then they don't have the means to take care of it properly and it doesn't survive. Makes sense IMO but may not be the real reason. My feed store has no restrictions right now.

 

[idealpoultry]

Delʻs in the Northwest & Hawaii are a division of TSC and buys from Ideal also. They are requiring the 6 minimum and a physical address for the buyer. Ideal did the same thing to me on a direct order. Even though they ship to my PO Box and my Visa is billed to that PO Box, they insisted that they wouldnʻt ship unless I gave them my "physical" address where the chicks would be kept. I kidded them about whether they were going to come and repossess them if my payment was no good, but they didnʻt think it was funny.

Several other threads have gone on about respiratory problems at Ideal. I hope this isnʻt related.

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The requirement of a physical address is required by the State of Hawaii, not Ideal Poultry. In order for us to receive health papers to ship chickens into Hawaii we have to have a physical address.

As far as the TSC information. TSC is the one that has set the regulations for minimums and personal information not the hatcheries.

 

[Scraps]

This article was posted back in 2006...maybe a heads up for what
is in the works for everyone

http://nonais.org/2006/01/30/texans-to-face-1000-fines-for-possession-of-baby-chick/


Texans face $1,000 Fines
Alert - State — walterj 1:52 am
With House Bill 1361 Texas legislators are determined to keep track of every single little baby chick in Texas. Each cutie must be tagged with a 15 digit number to identify it. All locations containing livestock animals must register as farms. $10 annual premise ID and premise registration fee will be required for all homes where any animal ever exists, even if just visiting. Anyone found not reporting a baby chick hatching, movement or death will face a fine of $1,000 per day for non-compliance. Similar fines for all other forms of livestock were also enacted.

With all this paperwork, fees and fines forget about 4-H. Forget about Future Farmers of America. Forget about that baby chick hatching school project. Homesteaders, you better eat your chickens now and don’t bother counting them. No more eggs. No more summer pigs. Slaughter that fatted calf. From now on plan on purchasing your food only at government approved distribution centers with sufficiently powerful lobbyists and friends in high places. Sorry small farmers - no more farmer’s market or farm stands in the future. The paperwork will destroy small farmers. So dies the Buy Local movement.

This monstrosity was originally brought to you by your friends at the USDA under the guise of NAIS - the National Animal Identification System. The Texas Animal Health Commission, which developed the rules in Texas, can be reached with comments on this absurdity by email until 5pm February 6th, 2006. The question is, are they really listening. Be sure that after that short “public comment” period they’re going to cover their collective eyes and ears as the food supply consolidates into the hands of the big producers. Do you think that will make the national food supply safer?

 

[Reinbeau]

Here in MA you have to buy a minimum of six to prevent people from buying one or two for their kids

On Friday I had a pedicure at a local nail salon and the young woman who was doing my toes thought it was great that I had chickens, and wondered where she could buy *one* for her four year old child. There was a language problem, but I kindly tried to explain to her that she couldn't do that, and she was amazed.....but she's a poster child for why the laws are written the way they are. When I purchased my chicks last year at the local feed store (they know who I am and where I live anyways) there was no info gathered for tracking purposes.

 

[partimer]

Yes the pursuit of happiness; Call or write your Congressman, senator and the President. Save our animals and our guns, that is safety . Without a gun someone can steal our chickens. All got to work hand to hand. They won't get ANY info from me, I'll definately raise my own chickens, meat and vegies. old timer, now partimer God bless America

 

[briteday]

At most of our feed stores (and we don't have any large franchises here, just little privately owned ranch stores) you can buy as many, or few, as you want as long as they know you. And no one has ever asked for our address or any other personal info.

However, if you just walk in off the street and they don't know you from feed sales, 4H projects, or previous purchases...they will probably tell you that you need to buy at least 6 chicks. Store owners tell us that it is to prevent the 1-2 chicks for the kids for Easter which became a huge problem here for a while. Then the parents want to know if the chick died because it had salmonella or E. coli that could have infected their kids. So the store owners just try to know their customers to avoid liability.

I know several people who split orders or sell off the excess chicks, mainly because they only want a few hens for eggs, don't need as many as 6 hens.

 

[MissPrissy]

I can go with the 6 chick minimum - it keeps people from buying a cute little chick and then abandoning it. 6 makes it a commitment and most people will think twice before jumping off. No it won't solve every dumping or abandonment of chickens but it will help.

Tracking - well, like it or not there are many diseases in poultry that are reportable by law. Most chicken pet owners refuse to report illness and even more refuse to cull for illness and giving drugs without a diagnosis is masking most symptoms and it is those disease that put everyone at risk and everyone with chickens within a 5 mile radious could be under a manditory cull and burn if a seerious disease outbreak occured.

If more chicken people were more responsible and did not have cartoon hearts leaking out of ever body oriface then some rules, regulations and laws would not have to be enforced so severely and infringe on what some of us know as 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

 

[dave_Cash69]

Quote:
agreed

 

[farmgirlie1031]

The first chickens I ever bought last year came from a feed store. We bought 5 and they took are name and address saying if a disease problem became known the hatchery would need it to contact us. I didn't think about it at the time but I bet it was actually NPIP tracking of the buyers. I have sheep and by Iowa law I have to follow a tracking program for scrapies for them (each farm gets its own number for ear tags that must be placed in the ear of all sheep and never removed by federal law) so even if we didn't buy the chickens at the feed store our place is already under radar.