Backyard Chickens Must Be Registered in North Carolina for Your Own Safety

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Amerika, land of the not so free.

There isn't much that feels more self-reliant than going out to your backyard hen house to get fresh eggs for breakfast. There's no need for USDA approval, you know what your hens have been eating, and you don't have to pay a premium price and hope that the farm who raised the chickens that laid those grocery store eggs actually treated the hens humanely. Bonus points if the bacon you fry up comes from a local farm, and bonus BONUS points if you raised that little piggie yourself. Raising backyard chickens is incredibly rewarding.

It's pure freedom, this control over your own food.

Of course, until you have to register your chickens. Then, as food freedom activist Nebulousl Salatin says, "Everything I want to do is illegal."

With so many people moving towards self-reliance, you had to know it was only a matter of time before the government got involved.

And now they have. But don't worry, it's all for your own good.

In North Carolina, the state's Department of Agriculture wants to protect you against the avian flu. So regardless of the number of chickens you have, you must register for a state farm ID number as of August 1, 2015. Surprisingly, this if free. Not surprisingly, this is mandatory.

Up until the recent avian flu fear, farm registration was voluntary. Now, even families with two or three hens in a nifty little moveable chicken tractor in the backyard must register.

According to State Veterinarian (who knew there was a State Veterinarian?) Doug Meckes, this is vital. "In planning our response for highly pathogenic avian influenza, one problem we've come across is that we can't protect birds that we don't know exist. We need to know where poultry are located so we can properly protect commercial and backyard flocks."


http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/backyard-chickens-must-be-registered-in-north-carolina-07262015

 

[Webster]

*deadpans* That's the Old North State in a nutshell, Liberty....apparently, the geniuses in Raleigh have solved all the state's problems (..insert laugh track here...) and are now beginning to deal with the Really Serious Problems in the state...such as unregistered chickens.

Playing Devil's Advocate here, Liberty, I don't blame them for doing this: you get a nice, raging epidemic of avian influenza through a state's chicken population and you can pretty much kiss most of your state's chicken & egg products bye-bye...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

*deadpans* That's the Old North State in a nutshell, Liberty....apparently, the geniuses in Raleigh have solved all the state's problems (..insert laugh track here...) and are now beginning to deal with the Really Serious Problems in the state...such as unregistered chickens.

Playing Devil's Advocate here, Liberty, I don't blame them for doing this: you get a nice, raging epidemic of avian influenza through a state's chicken population and you can pretty much kiss most of your state's chicken & egg products bye-bye...

Then you kiss most of the states chickens good-bye if that happens. Government just needs to stop being nanny for everything.

 

[Webster]

Then you kiss most of the states chickens good-bye if that happens.

And in turn the prices for both chicken & egg products would go stratospheric....is that a risk you're willing to take in the name of liberty?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

And in turn the prices for both chicken & egg products would go stratospheric....is that a risk you're willing to take in the name of liberty?

Yes! Yes! And hell Yes!

 

[Smiley]

So now you must fill up the paperwork if you want to raise your chickens. Does that apply to raising your cock(s) rooster(s) too?

Yes! Yes! And hell Yes!

(..insert laugh track here...)

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[Webster]

Yes! Yes! And hell Yes!

Well, let's hope it never happens so I won't have to go, "See, I told you so..."

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Well, let's hope it never happens so I won't have to go, "See, I told you so..."

I hope a lot of bad things never happen but even if they did I will still keep the freedom.