are most of this years flu casualties preventative culling of uninfected commercial birds?

[froggyphore]

I’m reading about how high the numbers are this time but I can’t find anything that gives a full breakfown of what those deaths actually are. Are most of them preemptive culls of production birds at large scale farms? Or are a good chunk of them actual deaths from infection? Thanks

 

[NatJ]

Are most of them preemptive culls of production birds at large scale farms? Or are a good chunk of them actual deaths from infection? Thanks

It appears that the policy is:
when any number of domestic birds test positive, cull all birds on the same property.

So they are culling large numbers of birds who would probably get it, and probably die, but they are not waiting to see for sure. (I think the main reason for not waiting is that it could spread to wild birds and to other domestic flocks during that time.)