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To be NPIP you will contact Dr. Lyndon Badcoe: "Lyndon (AGR) Badcoe" <[email protected]>
He will arrange to come out and test 30 of your birds as well as do a premises inspection- he will want to know how you handle your eggs, rodent control, deal with possible contamination from wild birds and waterfowl in the area, and whether you bring in new adult birds. Once you are NPIP, you should only acquire new birds or eggs from another NPIP participant. Lyndon is delightful to work with. There is a fee for his time and for the lab testing.
Thanks, I already have most all of this set up with Julie Walker in Olympia....don't know where your guy is.
Julie has told me all I need & since she has the test records from our Fair, only a few flocks still need testing & it will come out to about $45.
Thanks for the tip on rodent control..I have traps all over & seldom catch any rodents.
I will make sure I spruce up every thing before I call her.
She represents my county area...so it is her office that I have to go through being in this county.
I also have to spruce up on my record keeping, as I give vaccines & hatch, so birds hatched & records should be kept, am I wrong here?
What about eating eggs?
Do they go over how they are handled??
I do the Dept of Ag cleaning & have fresh labeled cartons and add my Farm name & address stickers.
Dr Badcoe is the State Veterinarian, I don't know if you had a chance to meet him at the show CL. I was going to report that I had sold some butcher ducks to Ultasol, and I took them to the tricities cause I had to go that way anyway, and we loaded them in her car. When she got home, there was one that just didn't seem right. Now, I had almost 50 birds before I took some to the show and she bought 10 more and I traded her two more, so she took 12 total. When I had loaded the hen in the cage, she seemed a little thin, I try to make sure everyone has food, but I thought she maybe not been getting enough food. Well, Jen called me and said, Julie this hen's liver is HUGE!! It took up almost the whole side of her, and her heart was enlarged!! Kidneys were a little small too, so I was kind of freaking out. She took a bunch of pictures and gave me Dr Badcoe's e-mail adress so I sent him a message, gave him the history and pics, and he got back to me in less then 12 hours!!! I thought it was congenital, from what I read there really aren't very many diseases Muscovy ducks get. He confirmed it was congenital that had she looked closer behind the back side of the heart she would have found a tear!! I was impressed! I'm sure he is a very busy man and he took time to look at the pictures and give me his professional opinion! So, anyway, I just thought I would share that!! Anyway, Jen said he was a nice guy and easy to talk with and willing to share information. Have you been on the WSU site that tells you the washington state ag dept laws on selling eggs? I bet your are doing just fine!! And yeah, I'm sure you probably have to document your vaccine protocol and hatch records. Just a guess. Good luck!
To be NPIP you will contact Dr. Lyndon Badcoe: "Lyndon (AGR) Badcoe" <[email protected]>
He will arrange to come out and test 30 of your birds as well as do a premises inspection- he will want to know how you handle your eggs, rodent control, deal with possible contamination from wild birds and waterfowl in the area, and whether you bring in new adult birds. Once you are NPIP, you should only acquire new birds or eggs from another NPIP participant. Lyndon is delightful to work with. There is a fee for his time and for the lab testing.
Thanks, I already have most all of this set up with Julie Walker in Olympia....don't know where your guy is.
Julie has told me all I need & since she has the test records from our Fair, only a few flocks still need testing & it will come out to about $45.
Thanks for the tip on rodent control..I have traps all over & seldom catch any rodents.
I will make sure I spruce up every thing before I call her.
She represents my county area...so it is her office that I have to go through being in this county.
I also have to spruce up on my record keeping, as I give vaccines & hatch, so birds hatched & records should be kept, am I wrong here?
What about eating eggs?
Do they go over how they are handled??
I do the Dept of Ag cleaning & have fresh labeled cartons and add my Farm name & address stickers.
Dr Badcoe is the State Veterinarian, I don't know if you had a chance to meet him at the show CL. I was going to report that I had sold some butcher ducks to Ultasol, and I took them to the tricities cause I had to go that way anyway, and we loaded them in her car. When she got home, there was one that just didn't seem right. Now, I had almost 50 birds before I took some to the show and she bought 10 more and I traded her two more, so she took 12 total. When I had loaded the hen in the cage, she seemed a little thin, I try to make sure everyone has food, but I thought she maybe not been getting enough food. Well, Jen called me and said, Julie this hen's liver is HUGE!! It took up almost the whole side of her, and her heart was enlarged!! Kidneys were a little small too, so I was kind of freaking out. She took a bunch of pictures and gave me Dr Badcoe's e-mail adress so I sent him a message, gave him the history and pics, and he got back to me in less then 12 hours!!! I thought it was congenital, from what I read there really aren't very many diseases Muscovy ducks get. He confirmed it was congenital that had she looked closer behind the back side of the heart she would have found a tear!! I was impressed! I'm sure he is a very busy man and he took time to look at the pictures and give me his professional opinion! So, anyway, I just thought I would share that!! Anyway, Jen said he was a nice guy and easy to talk with and willing to share information. Have you been on the WSU site that tells you the washington state ag dept laws on selling eggs? I bet your are doing just fine!! And yeah, I'm sure you probably have to document your vaccine protocol and hatch records. Just a guess. Good luck!
:/ bump it up and see what happes
