Posted on 10/19/2017 6:00:36 PM PDT by markomalley
Luke Gabriele was a healthy 14-year-old football player in Pennsylvania when he began to feel soreness in his chest that grew increasingly painful. After his breathing became difficult, doctors detected a mass that appeared to be a tumor.
For a week, Dan and DeAnna Gabriele thought their son was dying until tests identified the cause: not cancer, but chickens — the ones he cared for at home. They had apparently infected him with salmonella that produced a severe abscess.
The popular trend of raising backyard chickens in U.S. cities and suburbs is bringing with it a soaring number of illnesses from poultry-related diseases, at least one of them fatal.
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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.
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A chicken in bed?
Reminds of the old phrase:
Kinky is when you use a feather.
Perverse is when you use the whole chicken!
Backyard chickens are a step toward self sufficiency.
The PTB do not want folks to become self sufficient.
This is a scare tactic.
Thank you. It was pretty rough. I enjoyed going to visit in the morning and also feeding them things from the garden. It was a soil borne illness that went around this spring as it was unusually wet.
We weren’t actually allowed backyard chickens in our neighborhood - but I formed a co-op (COOP, LOL) with my next door neighbor, and we had them anyway. The other neighbors were cool about it. They kind of liked knowing they were there.
We’ve had a lot of chickens. Not one has ever had salmonella. We’ve had the state come and test and tag them. Just keep the coop clean. That’s all you have to do.
Yes I have 5 hens. Wash my hands everyday after cleaning the coop and/or touching them. Plus I wear gloves.
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