Ramona,
It is required to remain NPIP certified that you only purchase eggs and birds from NPIP certified flocks. Dr. Davis will be checking our flocks and paperwork next year when she comes back to redo testing in the fall.
Also it is already the law to have NPIP, pullorum typhoid testing or health certificates on every egg and bird entering the State:
WAC 16-54-145 Washington State Register filings since 2003
Poultry, including ratites — Importation and testing requirements.
Import health requirements.
(1) All poultry, including ratites, imported into Washington state must be accompanied by a certificate of veterinary inspection.
(a) USDA VS form 17-6 (Certificate for Poultry or Hatching Eggs for Export) will be accepted in lieu of the certificate of veterinary inspection.
(b) For hatching eggs and baby poultry, a USDA NPIP VS form 9-3 (Report of Sales of Hatching Eggs, Chicks, and Poults) may be used in lieu of the certificate of veterinary inspection.
(c) The certificate of veterinary inspection must include either the NPIP number or negative results of the required tests.
(2) Poultry or hatching eggs must originate from flocks or areas not under state or federal restriction.
(3) Each ratite entering Washington state must be permanently identified with USDA approved identification. The type of identification must be listed on the certificate of veterinary inspection.
Import test requirements.
(4) Poultry must:
(a) Originate from an NPIP participant flock that has met classification requirements for pullorum-typhoid, Salmonella enteriditis, and avian influenza; or
(b) Test negative within thirty days before entering Washington for pullorum-typhoid, S. enteriditis, and avian influenza.
(5) Hatching eggs must originate from an NPIP participant flock that has met classification requirements for the diseases listed in subsection (4)(a) of this section. If the parent breeder flock is not an NPIP participant, the parent birds must be tested for the above diseases within thirty days before entry.
(6) Turkeys, their poults, and eggs must originate from a producer who is participating in the mycoplasmosis control phase of the NPIP or must have been tested serologically negative for M. gallisepticum and M. synoviae within thirty days of entry.
Exemptions to import health requirements.
(7) Doves, pigeons, and poultry destined for immediate slaughter are exempt from the certificate of veterinary inspection and testing requirements.
The State is revising the law to state that all birds exhibited will have to have the same certification.
To the questions brought up by others, the field testing in WA is free. Two of my birds came up positive on the field test, so the veterinarian took blood and sent it to the lab, they both were negative and it cost me $1.50 per test. They also test what the Federal guidelines are for the number of birds on your property. Its 30 birds or 10% of the flock, whichever is more. And they only test for pullorum/thyphoid to be certified, you can be tested for other diseases at your own expense.
Washington has a backyard poultry health program going on and I am being paid $60.00 every quarter for them to come out and test 12 of my birds for AI. They are testing people who are in waterfowl \"flyways\", like I am by the lake. It\'s free money...
Jean
