Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG) is the most common upper respiratory infection of backyard chicken flocks. It does not affect Humans. This sickness affects 60% of the world's Fowl. It is spread on clothes, fur, shoes, equipment, etc. It's important to ask for test results and current health records before purchasing Fowl, Eggs.
Sadly, we lost our Fowl Farm two years ago due to MG and other Fowl diseases. We learned to implement natural preventives and regularly check our bird's health. Being registered to test our flock will increase our fowl farm health and knowledge.
The Texas Pullorum-Typhoid (PT) Program serves an important role in protecting the health of Texas’ poultry flocks. The mission of the Pullorum-Typhoid (PT) Program is to bring about the control and eradication of pullorum disease and fowl typhoid from poultry flocks in Texas and to maintain Texas as a U.S. Pullorum-Typhoid Clean State. The program, enacted by the 65th Texas Legislature, requires that all domestic poultry (chicken, guinea, pheasant, quail, peafowl and turkey) offered for sale, trade, or used to produce offspring for sale or trade must be tested for pullorum and typhoid and found to be free of infection. In addition, the program requires all poultry going to public exhibition or public sale to be found free of infection or originate from a certified clean flock.