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The Broody Bunch said:
She knew there was a problem as first thought was Mareks and she said several ppl had accused her of selling them birds with Mareks. I’m just the only one that bothered to test. But it wasn’t Mareks.
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She did want the birds back 2 days ago and I have 3 darling Ameraucaunas I had purchased a couple of weeks after getting the sick birds from her and I had 1 of them test positive today. The other 2 tested negative.
 
Debbie292d said:
Regardless of what it was, even if they had coccidiosis, you just don't sell sick or suspected sick birds! I wish people like that could get a fine for doing it especially in your case since you proved it; however, she did give you your money back and took the sick birds, but now you've got that disease wherever those birds were. I know sterilizing it at least can kill it though, but if it's in the dirt, not sure how one gets it out of there.
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There is a group now formed in Texas to try to get some changes made on large backyard breeders. NPIP certification is a joke as breeders set on a $40 certificate with only having to do P/T tests. And both of those are pretty much eradicated at this time.
 
The Broody Bunch said:
There is a group now formed in Texas to try to get some changes made on large backyard breeders. NPIP certification is a joke as breeders set on a $40 certificate with only having to do P/T tests. And both of those are pretty much eradicated at this time.
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Our state (Wisconsin) thinks it's a joke too as it's not testing for the diseases we as backyard chicken owners worry about. Thus, they do not require NPIP unless you are shipping chicks into our state or want to show birds at state exhibitions.
 
janiedoe said:
I hope she isn't still selling birds. Do you know whether she is or not?
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Yes she is. She was selling birds when even she thought it might be Mareks. I know because a lady I know bought 5 from her (she didn’t know what was going on) and posted it on FB, and the breeder knew I was waiting on the Mareks test to come back.
 
The Broody Bunch said:
Same here, but it’s also required to sell eggs at farmers markets.
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I think it might be that way here too. I checked about selling hatching eggs and she asked me how I did it. I said either they come here or I ship them off to people. She said that was fine and didn't need to be NPIP although the state they're going to might. Funny but the Post Office doesn't even know what it is and doesn't check so who is?
 
Debbie292d said:
Regardless of what it was, even if they had coccidiosis, you just don't sell sick or suspected sick birds! I wish people like that could get a fine for doing it especially in your case since you proved it; however, she did give you your money back and took the sick birds, but now you've got that disease wherever those birds were. I know sterilizing it at least can kill it though, but if it's in the dirt, not sure how one gets it out of there.
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I’m going to scrape the ground, spray it with disinfectant, total disinfectant coop clean and replace with deep washed river sand.
 
The Broody Bunch said:
I’m going to scrape the ground, spray it with disinfectant, total disinfectant coop clean and replace with deep washed river sand.
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I have a question! All the adult birds from the avian leukosis ive been dealing with have been culled. The now 3 week old chicks I had bought that haven’t been exposed, I had 2 of those hens that were laying and I was scrambling the eggs and feeding back to the chickens and I fed some to the chicks. It just hit me tonight- could they catch the avian leukosis virus from the scrambled eggs of the infected hen?
 

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