Heather Callaghan
Posted to Natural Blaze on July 23, 2015
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is using the Midwestern poultry avian flu outbreak as an opportunity to decree new requirements for chicken farmers. These newly released rules - in case of a potential event - have prompted small family farms, and backyard chicken owners to wonder how cozy the Ag Commission wants to be - and what happens if a quarantine is declared.
9 WNCT News reports:
All poultry owners are now required to register for an NC Farm ID number, regardless of the number of birds owned.
This ID number will help the department to alert poultry owners about outbreaks.
It's that word "regardless" that has people
talking. Seriously - NCFarmID for one or two chickens? NCFarmID regardless.
Some backyard chicken owners already don't appreciate what they feel is an
invasive mandate.
The Ag Department issued a press release. The designated information area specifically
for backyard chickens reads:
