Something is different. I don’t recall these problems with the chickens running around my grandfathers barnyard long long ago.
Exactly. I’ve raised chickens for over 20 years. Never ONE problem in all that time - and we’ve eaten them, eaten their eggs, my kids were always playing with them, no one in my household has EVER gotten sick from chickens.
I’m not saying you can’t get sick; it’s just never happened to us, and we were not 100% scrupulous or hygienic about it, either. Of course, no chickens in the house...we had three dogs and two cats at any given time, LOL!
Maybe people’s immune systems are weak these days, due to a lack of fresh air and sunshine? ;)