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What is the definition of commercial poultry for the timeline? #16

Closed JacqSauer closed 3 weeks ago

JacqSauer commented 4 months ago

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 commented 4 months ago

@scarpino can you confirm that these are the tags/labels assigned for commercial 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 commented 3 weeks ago

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