6 articles on biosecurity for Philippine backyard keepers, every peso figure sourced and dated.
Keeping disease out of a backyard flock, which is mostly about traffic rather than medicine. The measures that work on a commercial farm scale down badly, and the honest versions for a bakuran are cheaper and duller.
The American list starts with avocado, and Merck says chickens are relatively resistant to it. The Philippine list starts with amag, because a survey of rice bran here found aflatoxin at 123 times the level Merck says young poultry tolerate, and because the national standard for contaminants in feed says out loud that it is protecting the person eating the chicken.
Almost every biosecurity checklist a Filipino keeper finds was written for intensive production, and the standards say so in their own scope lines. This separates what a bakuran of 20 to 50 birds can actually run from what it cannot, using the documents that recommend each measure.
Every page about bird flu in this country answers where it has been. The nine-year outbreak record also answers when, and the reported dates bunch hard into February, March and April.
The outbreak record for this country is public and runs back to July 2017. It says the current wave is landing on bakuran flocks, and BAI pays a registered smallhold 100% of the value of its culled birds against 20% for an unregistered one, at a published ₱100 a head for layers and ₱60 for broilers.
Annex F of PNS/BAFS 370:2023 is the whole of the published Philippine schedule: six entries, four ages, no dose column and no backyard column. And the state wrote its bird flu vaccination guidelines 663 days before a bird flu vaccine could legally be bought here.
The Bureau of Animal Industry files Newcastle disease as Rapidly Spreading and avian influenza as Endemic, then pays for the second one and not the first. The whole Philippine Newcastle record at WOAH is two events, the current one a five-bird backyard flock in Bataan.