What is the definition of commercial poultry for the timeline?

[JacqSauer]

Need to confirm with @scarpino that these are the only two "commercial" criteria for the commercial poultry counts, as he included both cases from "commercial farms" and "WOAH poultry" (i.e., the MA case he included in the counts is a WOAH poultry case). In the training/review video, Sam mentioned he was only adding poultry entries from the USDA that were labeled as "commercial." I think it makes sense to add cases labeled as WOAH poultry on the USDA website since WOAH poultry is defined as "all birds reared or kept in captivity for the production of any commercial animal products or for breeding for this purpose, fighting cocks used for any purpose, and all birds used for restocking supplies of game or for breeding for this purpose, until they are released from captivity."

What does the team think? Would our team benefit from a description or dictionary that defines which types of poultry, dairy herds, and other animals we are counting? Also see #14 for discrepancy in dairy herd counts concern.

[JacqSauer]

@scarpino can you confirm that these are the tags/labels assigned for commercial poultry:

• commercial breeder (multiple bird species)
• commercial breeder operation
• commercial broiler breeder
• commercial broiler breeder pullets
• commercial broiler production
• commercial duck breeder
• commercial duck meat bird
• commercial raised for release upland game bird
• commercial raised for release waterfowl
• commercial table egg breeder
• commercial table egg layer
• commercial table egg pullets
• commercial turkey breeder hens
• commercial turkey breeder replacement hens
• commercial turkey breeder toms
• commercial turkey meat bird
• commercial turkey poult supplier
• commercial upland gamebird producer
• production
• WOAH poultry

The current labels that we are not including as commercial poultry are WOAH non-poultry and live bird market. Should we include live bird market under commercial poultry as well? we would have to update our counts to accommodate this.

[JacqSauer]

@jackie-powers do you feel comfortable closing this issue?

[jackie-powers]

12/26 - We excluded "commercial raised for release upland game bird" from our count. This is labeled as "commercial" but we should discuss whether we want to include it.

[jackie-powers]

When going through our google sheet, I noticed that "live bird market" was sometimes included and sometimes excluded. We should decide if we want this in our counts.

[jackie-powers]

Global.health is not including the following types of poultry in our commercial poultry count:

• Backyard Producer
• Commercial raised for release upland game bird
• Commercial raised for release waterfowl
• Commercial upland gamebird producer
• Live bird market
• Live bird sales (non-slaughter)
• WOAH non-poultry