Transcript Proposed Trinidad & Tobago Poultry Compensation Plan

Additional Thoughts on
Poultry Compensation
Stephen L. Ott
Commercial Poultry Producers
Backyard, Exhibition (Show),
Pets, Zoos
Small & Independent
Poultry Producers
Feral Birds,
Fighting Cocks,
Specialty Birds, e.g.
racing pigeons
Commercial poultry
Value based upon industry data
Backyard, exhibition (show), pets, zoos
Value = Established replacement costs
Value = cost of young chicks plus cost of feed
to reach adulthood
Exhibition “Championship Flock”
Suggested by President ABA
Bird Quality
Backyard / Meat (culls)
Birds for beginning
exhibitor
Breeder birds for
advanced exhibitor
Next generation parents:
championship flock
Flock weighted average
Flock
Distribution
20%
Price
Range
$5 - $8
50%
$35 - $50
20%
$50 - $75
10%
$100 $200
$50
Bird Values from California, 2003
(USD / bird)
Domestic Fowl Pricing
(California, May 8, 2003)
Range Chickens
 Back yard Chicken
 Crossbred Common
Bantam
 Purebred Exhibition
 Chicks
Ducks
$5-$15
$2-$5
$5-$25
$0.50-$5
Pit Game – Fighting Cocks
 Pit Game Proven
(1 year or older)
 Pit Game Unproven
(less 1 year old)
 Brood cocks
 Brood Hens
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Duck Black
$16-$17
Duck Fulvous
$20-$22
Duck Greenwing Teal $27
Duck Hood Mergansers $50
Duck Manderine
$20
Duck Marble Teal
$22-$25
Duck Pintail
$20
Duck Red Crested
$20
$75-$100
$50-$100
$50-$200
$35-$125
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Pochards
$22
Duck Redhead
Duck Ringed Teal
Duck Ruddy
Duck Teal
Duck wood duck
Domestic Ducks
$20
$20
$50
$25
$15
$10-$25
Domestic Fowl Pricing
(California, May 8, 2003)
Pigeon
 Pigeon Nicobar
 Pigeon Racing
 Pigeons
Geese
$250
$6
$3-$20
Pheasant
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Pheasant
Pheasant Amherst
Pheasant Golden
Pheasant Reeves
$12-$50
$12
$12
$12
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Goose Blue
Goose Egyption
Goose Ganada
Goose Magellan
Goose Red-breasted
Goose Sebastropol
Goose Crossbred
Goose Purebred
$50
$30
$36
$125
$250
$50
$5-$10
$10-$20
Miscellaneous birds
Swan
 Swan Black Neck
 Swan Trumpeter
$500
$500
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Peacock
Peafowl
Quail
Quail Bobwhite
Turkeys
Ostriches
Emus
$25-$100
$50-$100
$3-$20
$4
$15-$30
$75-$100
$75-$150
California Bird Prices, December, 2003
Gamecocks (Fighting Cocks)
 Brood Cocks
(caged breeding birds)
 Brood Hens
(caged breeding birds)
 Fighting Roosters
(loose birds)
 Hens (loose birds)
 Juvenile
 Chicks
 Backyard Chickens:
Male, Female
$50 - $200
$35 - $125
$25 - $100
$25 - $50
$20 - $40
$5
$5 - $15
Game-Hunting Birds, Water Fowl,
Exhibition
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Doves
Ducks
Geese
Guinea
Ostriches/Emus
$5 - $12
$5 - $20
$15 - $25
$10 - $15
$75 - $150
Game Birds, Water Fowl,
Exhibition
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Peacock
Pigeon: Nicobar
Pigeon: Racing
Pigeon: Other
Quail
Turkeys
$25 - $100
$250
$6
$3 - $20
$5 - $10
$15 - $30
Pheasants
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Red, Yellow
Impeyian
Swine hoe
White—Crested Kalij
Silver
Golden
Lady Amherst
Blueback Mongolian
Albino
$200
$400
$300
$300
$120
$150
$175
$35
$250
Pet Bird Values
(California, December, 2003)
Amazon
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Yellow Naped Amazon (Amazona auropalliata)
Yellow Faced Amazon (Amazona xanthops)
Tres Maria Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala tresmarie)
Blue Fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva xanthopteryx)
Double Yellow Headed Amazon (Amazon ochrocephala oratrix)
Jamaican Yellow Billed Amazon (Amazonia collaria)
$1,000
$800
$1,200
$700-$900
$600-$850
$1,800
Cackatoo
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Red-Vented Cockatoo (Cacatua haematuropygia)
Umbrella Cockatoo (Cacatua alba)
Ducorp Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorps)
Goffin Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorps)
Leadbeater Cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri)
Moluccan Cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis)
Long Billed Corella Cockatoo (Cacatua tenuirostris)
Cockatoo
$2,200
$1,000
$1,000
$700-$1000
$4,000
$600-$1500
$2,200
$500-$1500
Pet Bird Values
(California, December, 2003)
Conure
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Green Conure (Pyrrhura molinae)
Sun Conure (Aratinga solstitialis)
Yellow Green Conure (Pyrrhura malinae)
Fallow Green checked Conure (Pyrrhura Molinae)
$250
$350
$400
$250
Small Pet Birds
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Finches
Finches Common
Lovebirds
Parakeets
Canaries
Cockatiels
$5-$35
$5-$20
$25-$75
$5-$25
$25-$100
$25-$100
Small or Independent Producers
Production from a few hundred to a
hundreds of thousand birds
May have own breeding lines
Value the same as similar birds in large
commercial operations, unless owner can
demonstrate with production, financial and
tax records their birds are worth more
Feral Birds
Owned by no one, yet could be a community
food resource
Their elimination may be important in disease
control
Methods for obtaining such birds
 Government paid hunters
But doesn’t address loss value to the community
 Pay bounty for dead birds presented to government
officials
Bounty must be less than indemnity paid for backyard birds
Fighting Cocks
Ownership is legal, but the fighting may not be
Ability to fight gives rise to increased value
Moral dilemma
 Paying more for birds that fight may be viewed by the public as
government endorsement of cock fighting which can cause
public relations problems
 However, such owners are often expert at avoiding government
officials and will hide their birds during a disease outbreak
 May want to develop government or official fighting pits
 Would allow disease testing of such birds
 Also generate tax revenue
Work with such owners before an outbreak
 Establish typical distribution of quality within a fighting bird flock
and values associated with various quality levels
Specialty Birds
Birds with very unique characteristics
Examples: racing pigeons, rolling skating
parrot
How to value such characteristics?
Expert opinion
Need to be careful of bias, especially if expert is
not experienced in appraisal methods
May want to have a maximum valuation