Bird replacement units Sancti Spíritus Poultry Company located in Cabaiguán and Jatibonico are the subject of tests of a nationally produced vaccine with the aim of preserving the flock.
“It is an experiment with a Cuban vaccine that seeks to achieve sovereignty in an area that has always been imported and that, as a result of the country’s limitations in its acquisition, has brought with it setbacks in carrying out the replacement and has been delayed. the flock in Cuba,” he said Alieski Quesada Molinadirector of the entity, to the official newspaper Escambray.
The manager assured that currently “the animals are old because they cannot be kept without vaccination due to the risk of getting sick.”
The test, which is carried out in the province of Spiritus, is followed up by entities such as Labiofamwho are the producers of the vaccine.
He stated that the experiment focuses on measuring adverse reactions since vaccines have different ways of being tested before reaching the clinical trial.
The procedure includes vaccination of the animals on the same day they are born in the incubation plant.
“At certain times they have been tested and, so far, all have given satisfactory results. There is another trial now around 90 and 100 days, which is a critical period for the animal, and also yields the conceived results,” commented Quesada Molina.
The Cuban authorities are seeking to patent this producta fact that would be reversed in favor of the animal and productive health of these future laying hens, they say.
Every year, The effects of avian flu puts Cuban poultry producers on alerthelpless due to the scarcity of resources and inputs to prevent the disease and treat the animals, so important in the production of eggs for human consumption.
Last year, the National Center for Animal Health of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG) of Cuba confirmed the presence of avian influenza in wild birds at the Havana Zoological Garden.
Although they claimed to have under control this diseaseall the territories of the country were put into alert so as not to be affected.
This danger is added to the lack of adequate food for the animals. Because of this, Egg production in Cuba has plummeted by more than 50%.
In 2023, the lack of feed and financing to acquire the raw materials with which to manufacture themwere part of the absence of this product in the Cuban diet.
