The USDA manages a public website listing current detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in poultry, livestock, and wild birds. You can find all the latest numbers here:

Poultry

Livestock

Wild Birds

Wondering what you should do as a pastured poultry producer?

We always start with the premise - if you have birds, you're at risk. Here is recommended approach to raising birds, which we think serves as the foundation to keeping your birds healthy. 

• Continue to pasture using sound principles, especially movement.
• Keep winter housing and brooders dry and well ventilated.
• Feed the highest quality feed you can source (least cost rationed feed and feed stuffed with fillers are never good)
• Avoid unnecessary contact with waterfowl, but especially don't let your flock drink unfiltered water from sources frequented by waterfowl.
• Maintain light stocking densities (1/2 as dense as commercial standards is a good starting point)
• Implement the biosecurity plan that fits the risk tolerance of your farm

This, consequently, is the same advice we’d recommend for blackhead or any other poultry ailment that we can think of. Raise a bird that has a robust immune system.

Resources

Here are the articles we wrote in 2015. We still hold to this thinking.

• https://apppa.org/page-18088
• https://apppa.org/page-18090
• https://apppa.org/news/5020597

Here are some webinars and interviews:

• https://youtu.be/8NuR-vPB4Qs - with Dr. Chrislyn wood at USDA
• https://youtu.be/lqNRO-Mb4M0
• https://youtu.be/uWZkYdV5CdI

Here's some additional coverage in the APPPA Grit at https://apppa.org/Grit-Issues

• Issue 129
• Issue 128
• Issue 132 - Director's Report

There have been APPPA members' who have had confirmed AI cases. It's heartbreaking, and it’s a serious issue.