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I will put a couple of links at the bottom for links to articles that explain it from a legal perspective, this is just my perspective....
Life per my original post under NAIS.
Along about March of last year my brother and his wife moved to town and gave us 3 hens as pets for the kids. He had to file 2 sets of paperwork, one to notify the government of where the hens were and one to notify them that their premises was no longer keeping animals as they were moving to town. Total forms - 4 I, within 24 hours, had to file 2 sets of paperwork, one to obtain a premises id number, giving name, SS#, address, and GPS number with the state and feds. I had to file 3 forms for the hens. Total forms - 4
Then my dh said, if you have to be here to feed 3 hens, why not get a few more. So we and the neighbors ordered 100 chickens. They then had to file 1 form setting up a premises and 50 forms for owning the chicks + 50 forms since they would be ‘off premises’ boarding at my house. We had to file 50 forms reporting our 50 new chicks. Total forms - 151
Four of the chicks died in the first week, I had to file 3 incident reports, my neighbor had to file 1. Total reports - 4
In May, it was Mandy’s 8th birthday and all she wanted for her birthday was a pretty little kid named Snowflake, so we went a little flakey and got Snowflake and a nanny named Carmen, needed to file 2 forms. Carmen didn’t work out, beautiful goat who was terrified of children and one day tried to run away taking Snowflake with her and I had to file 2 incident reports. So she went to live with a neighbor and we traded for a new nanny named Paige. Both the neighbor and I had to file 2 report each, one for the got going, one for the goat coming. Paige is a sweetheart. I only had to lift her into the stanchion 3 times before she decided to do it all by herself. My neighbor asked if we could let our goats come over to help with weed control, they did that for about 2 weeks. (14 incident reports X2 goats). We were getting almost a gallon of milk a day before we dried her off to go ‘visiting’ (both the neighbor and I had to fill out incident reports - 4). She did get out of the yard 3 times (3 incident reports X 2) and enjoyed going for walks with us once a week all summer (12 incident reports X 2) We are now hoping for triplets in the spring. The goats came home in November, requiring another 4 reports. Total reports - 74.
Then one day I got a call in town, neighbor dogs had gotten into my chickens. I came home to find dead chickens all over my property and scattered down the road. We were devastated and filled the incident reports. 8 for the dead chickens and 4 for the ones that left the property. Total - 12
My dog thought what they had done looked like fun, so began killing chickens too. So far she has killed 8. Resulting in 8 reports for dead chickens and 2 for the two she tried to hide in the woods as they left the premises. Total - 10
On Labor day weekend, the neighbors came over and we killed 57 chickens. Dividing the paper work, we still had to file 57 forms between us. Total - 57
One of my chickens liked my neighbor. Every day she would make a beeline for his barnyard (he gives trail r ides, forms went in for each time the horses left and returned). I had to file 1 report for her leaving and one for coming every day. Oh we tried to keep her home, but she was a little escape artist! 90 forms X 2 = 180 for that one chicken.
I had 3 chickens die for no apparent reason or from injury from either other chickens, or one punctured himself on a wire. 3 reports.
This year we have filed 499 reports, tagged all animals, purchased the equipment and software to do this and it hasn’t even been 12 months since we started. All we wanted to do was have a few animals to teach the kids a little about responsibility and grow some of our own food. Life under NAIS is for the birds!
Here are links so you can go check it out for yourself. Is this the America you want? http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/index.shtml Government site that tells what they are planning. http://www.countrysidemag.com/current.htm#article4 Article that explains what it all means. http://homesteadingtoday.com/vb/showthread.php?t=113760 Post on Homesteading Today by a lawyer that give a great analysis from a legal standpoint. |
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