Are You Interested in Becoming a Pennsylvania Certified Poultry Technician (CPT) to Take

Are you interested in becoming a Pennsylvania Certified Poultry Technician (CPT) to take samples for poultry shows or NPIP? Are you already a CPT but want to attend another class as a refresher? Do you know someone who needs to attend a CPT class?

We will be holding a CPT class on Thursday April 7, 2016 from 9 am until we are done (hopefully by 3) at the PA Department of Agriculture Region 7 Office in Collegeville, Montgomery County. This is likely to be the only CPT class in southeastern PA (east of Lancaster) in 2016 so please make room in your schedule to attend if you need to become certified to test for this summer's show season.

Attendance will be limited, at least for the hands on portion (each attendee with be responsible for bringing 4-5 of their own birds), so please sign up soon if you are interested in attending.

If you do not really need to become a CPT, but are just curious or just need a refresher on the classroom part, please sign up as "classroom-only" so that we can reserve the limited hands-on spots for those who really need to become certified.

To sign up, please email me. In the email, please provide the name(s) of the people who are signing up, if they will be attending the classroom part only or both the classroom and hands-on parts, and why they wish to become a CPT (e.g. to test for show, to test commercial poultry for NPIP, etc.).

People wishing to attend a CPT class must also be PRE-APPROVED by our Harrisburg office to attend. Once you have contacted me, I will send you the application to mail or fax in to Harrisburg so that you can be pre-approved in time to attend the class.

For more information about the CPT program, please look at our website at www.agriculture.state.pa.us and type "Certified Poultry Technician" in the search box. For specific questions, please email me at or call me at 717-773-1748. Thank you.

Jennifer Hartlieb

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services

Domestic Animal Health Inspector Region VII

1015 Bridge Rd.|Collegeville, PA 19426