Posted on 10/19/2017 2:04:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
“For one salmonella case we know of in an outbreak, there are up to 30 others that we don’t know about,” CDC veterinarian Megin Nichols said.
A “large contributing factor” to the surge, Nichols said, comes from natural food fanciers who have taken up the backyard chicken hobby but don’t understand the potential dangers. Some treat their birds like pets, kissing or snuggling them and letting them walk around the house.
Poultry can carry salmonella bacteria in their intestines that can be shed in their feces. The bacteria can attach to feathers and dust and brush off on shoes or clothing.
But illnesses can be prevented with proper handling. The CDC recommends that people raising chickens wash their hands thoroughly after handling the birds, eggs or nesting materials, and leave any shoes worn in a chicken coop outside.
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They eat bugs, produce meat and eggs. Mine stay away from me as they have witnessed butcher day?
A little common sense goes a long way.......
In a nation of over three hundred million people there are one thousand cases of salmonella with one death.
Talk about making a molehill out of a dust speck...
Must be a “all the news favors Trump day.
Locally raised chickens are much better for you. They eat bugs and worms and fertilize the grass. And we also have a Geesestopo of eight geese, who march around doing a perfect goosestep, eat bugs, and scare potential burglars away.
“A little common sense goes a long way.......”
As has been said, common sense ain’t so common anymore.
PING
When I was a kid, the neighbor paid me to keep his chicken coop clean. To this day, I have a dislike of live chickens and am not that big a fan of the meat. I also took care of his calves when he had them but didn’t particularly mind that.
“They eat bugs, produce meat and eggs. Mine stay away from me as they have witnessed butcher day?”
Just had a flashback of chicken plucking and pin feathers from my youth on the farm!
Good times.
BOK BOK BOK BOK BOK
I get my chicken from Cam’s Asian market outside Cleveland. They get their chickens/meat and some veggies from the Amish. Chickens are smaller, but delicious!
Chickens are so stupid that they will defecate and turn around and eat their own feces.
I don’t suppose chickens come voiceless do they?
I do so hate the sound of chickens.
Chickensh*t will do it every time.
The underlying tone is that people are basically too stupid to raise chickens and practice basic farm hygiene. So to remedy that, you need to buy your poultry and eggs from a respected producer that, as an industry, belongs to one of the largest employers of illegal mexican labor in the US. Every concern article eventually orbits through liberalland.
Part time farming is risky business...as in part-time many things (like working on houses, as I have my share of close calls to attest to).
“I do so hate the sound of chickens”
Raise peacocks:)
Oh my goodness those “gooses” are mean as heck. Years ago they were on a golf course Hub and I were playing on and one ran after us......little turd...........LOL
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