Ping!.....................
I’m currently chicken-less. :( Last year Beau built me a greenhouse, this upcoming spring, it’ll be a chicken coop. We have a barn, but it’s not secure enough for the hens at night.
I used to raise 50 layers at a time; sold eggs to one of the chi-chi liquor store/delis in town. I got $2.50 a dozen for them. He then sold them for $4...and people begged for more!
Quite the racket!
We wash our hands after contact with the chickens. That said, I can’t imagine our small flock in a run open to the sun and air has more problems than 100,000 chickens in a closed building standing wing to wing. Ain’t buying it.