TB certification value?

I am seeking some advice on a TB certification. I recently purchased a herd of whitetails. Just got the certification transfered into my name and found out the certification expires in a week. I want to sale mostof the herd, but am torn as to if I should spend the 100-200 bucks to have them retested. The vet also is saying there is always a chance I could lose some during the darting and testing process. I do have the CWD certification also. I guess the question I am asking is what is the value of having them tested. I know this might allow me to sell them outside of illinois then, but am not really looking to get big into this anyway. I am just not sure it is worth the cost and risk to have this done. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Don't know about Illinois , but here in Wi you can't sell anything even within state without a TB certification or accerdiation. Also here we can not sell anything on a testing year once you reach your anniversery date until your completely retested. In other words if your anniversery date was March 20th 2014 you'd not be able to sell anything after March 19th until all your deer were all retested. You'd have from Dec 20th 2013 until June 20th 2014 to complete your testing and if it exspired you'd have to start all over with two tests two years in a row to recertify. You get accredited in one testing and certified in two in a row then repeat a test every 3 years to remain certified !

You do not have to have TB accreditation to sell within Illinois, but herds that are TB accredited will not buy from you unless you are accredited.  This is because they would loose their accreditation if they did.  If you are just selling hunt bucks and only want to sell in Illinois you will be OK not to test, but your does will be worth very little.  

Not sure if I understand what you wrote about your having TB status also. If you have your own status, and that status is good until a later date, the deer you have just moved onto your farm now have the same status as your deer, and you will have to test your entire herd according to the testing date of your farm.

If your not getting big into the industry, your best bet is to forget all the stressful testing ( stress on you and your deer) and just go to monitored status. If you bought a small herd you'll be suprised how much it cost, last time I tested 8 adult deer, my total for vets time, drugs, darts was $450, not counting the two wasted days vacation from work to help accommodate the vets schedual. I swore I'd never do it again, and I haven't. Granted if I had a handeling facility I could have saved darting each deer Twice. But handeling facilities are no cheap item, lol. Also gcw Matt is right, Your does will not be worth hardly anything if your monitored, but you can always eat them, it's healthier than beef. The important thing is that you can still sell your bucks to any preserve and that's all that really matters if your not chasing the breeder market. But If you really want to market does for breeding industry, you better test.

I think I would tb test, our state as of now requires you to physically show tags every 3 years now. So we just as well have the tb status. And yes there is a risk we lost one of are best does last year testing. But like I said in Iowa you have to physically show tags every 3 years so we just as well be accredited.

Same thing here in pa now. Visual herd inventory every three years. If you already have ur hands on them you might as well be tested.