The NPIP, or National Poultry Improvement Plan, is a voluntary program overseen by the USDA that monitors flocks and hatcheries. At the basic level, a chicken hatchery with an NPIP certification has been tested and found to be clean of Salmonella, Mycoplasma and low-path Avian Influenza diseases. We became NPIP Certified in May of 2024.
The APA creates and manages the Standard Of Perfection for standard Bred Poultry to be exhibited and judged and offers annual exhibitions for competition. Members since 2024.
The Rhode Island Red Club of America was founded on a cold blizzard of a day in a Coffee Tavern in Fall River, Mass. It was in December 1898 that a group of interested breeders of this new breed sat down to draft out this new organization. The Rhode Island Red was admitted into the Standard of Perfection in 1904. Members since 2023.