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We heard a lot about NAIS when it first came out. Now, they are quieter about it, keep repackaging it like the North Carolina required registration of flocks. And if you go to the Georgia USDA site, it says help keep Georgia flocks safe, register your premises. Yeah, right. That will only tell...

I put this in the category of my choice in the way I feed my family. I know what my chickens eat and I know their health status. It is none of their business how many birds I have, how many I hatch/buy, etc. It is my right, just as it is my right to grow a tomato plant on my own soil so I can...

I have hatched for years, mainly because of the substandard quality of the poor hens I originally had from Ideal poultry-lost about 15 to reproductive malfunctions. But, then the USDA started this NAIS stuff and cracked down on the feed stores to take information for them. basically spy for...

It is not new. Two years ago, the main feeds store in town, closed now, said she had to take names/addresses if she sold chicks. She'd never done it before. Same at the local co-op. So, your guy may just be getting the information, but this practice has been ramping up over the past few years...

They've been doing this for years now all over the U.S. I would never give them my name/address and always pay cash at feed stores. This is a government plan to know where every chicken is, even 2 hens in a backyard. Ostensibly, it is for your "protection", but in reality, it is for the...