There is no outbreak of any poultry disease in Region Six, according to Chief Executive Officer (ag) of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA), Dr Dwight Walrond.
Dr Walrond was referring to reports in the Guyana Times newspaper dated Wednesday, June 29, 2016, titled, “Farmer loses over 800 chickens in Berbice”. Walrond told the Government Information Agency (GINA), that GLDA officers in the region visited the location and met with the farmer. “We haven’t received any other reports, so this you can say is an isolated case” Dr Walrond said.
According to Dr Walrond, the GLDA has a team on the ground collecting epidemiological information and samples that would help shed light on what is happening at the farm in question.
“We need to look into it, but we won’t stop there, we need to look at the entire chain, we look at the feed, the entire batch. We need to know where the chickens came from so we will look at the signs and symptoms and then we are going to take it from there,” he told GINA, adding, “Internally, there would have to be an investigation to look at the channel of information to determine if there were any lapses in the communication process.”
