KRS 257.420

No person, firm, or corporation shall operate a public hatchery, and no person, dealer, jobber, peddler, or huckster in baby chicks, started chicks, turkey poults, other newly hatched domestic poultry, and hatching eggs shall operate as a public hatchery within this state without obtaining an annual permit from the Office of State Veterinarian to so operate, and paying a permit fee of ten dollars ($10) per annum. This is not intended to require a permit of hatcheries, chick dealers, chick salesmen, or corporations selling less than one thousand (1,000) chicks per year, or egg dealers selling less than thirty-five hundred (3,500) eggs per year.