salmonella risks?

Looks like their feed is a possible culprit...
"Feed found at Wright County Egg in Iowa tested positive for salmonella, FDA officials said at a joint news conference with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Salmonella also was found in walkways and manure at Wright County Egg, as well as in ingredients used in the feed. The samples of the salmonella were a genetic match to the salmonella that has made many people sick, officials said."
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/26/nation/la-na-eggs-fda-20100827

I am 27 and have eaten over-easy with runny yolked eggs all my life - can't stand solid yolks unless they are in egg salad or otherwise chopped up. And now that I'm raising my own chickens (and ducks, and turkeys, and pheasants...) I'm not about to eat a disgusting hard-yolked egg. That being said...I'm much more confident in my own eggs than those in the store. I also intend to never buy store eggs ever again. I eat 4 runny-yolked eggs, fried, complete with "crispies", and dipping toast into the runny yolk, almost every morning and have for the past two months since our hens started laying.

I agree with what one poster said, basically that living has risks to it, choose your own based upon what you prefer. That doesn't make us "stupid" it makes us in control of our own lives...

I raise my own chickens and duck for meat, as well...sure nice knowing what goes into my animals! We buy our feed from a local manufacturer about 10 minutes from my house. We give them garden trimmings, grass clippings, and they know what sunshine is and have access to outdoors throughout the daytime, they go in at night to avoid predators, and they are happy!

And I will continue to eat my runny yolks, to sample cake batter and cookie dough...I'm not the least bit worried about my health, and in fact feel pretty darn good that I can eat from my own farm. I'd rather eat my hens' eggs partially or fully raw, than eat store-bought eggs fully cooked!

I found this thread with the search function and am resurrecting it with new info from the CDC in Atlanta:

"An increasing number of people around the country are choosing to keep live poultry, such as chickens or ducks, as part of a greener, healthier lifestyle. While you enjoy the benefits of backyard chickens and other poultry, but it is important to consider the risk of illness, especially for children, which can result from handling live poultry or anything in the area where they live and roam.
It's common for chickens, ducks, and other poultry to carry Salmonella, which is a type of germ that naturally lives in the intestines of poultry and many other animals and is shed in their droppings or feces. Even organically fed poultry can have Salmonella. While it usually doesn't make the birds sick, Salmonella can cause serious illness when it is passed to people."

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http://www.cdc.gov/Features/SalmonellaPoultry/

I find it hard to believe how some people are so frightened of bacteria, and also how the facts get twisted and blown up by the press and food industry.

I have been eating runny eggs all my life.. from my own chickens, ducks , pigeons and also form supermarkets. I have never got sick from them.

Also nearly every animal we keep as a pet carries salmonella.. even you dogs and cats... but chickens and turtles seem to carry all the media attention.

Bacteria are all around us, on everything we touch.. even in the air.

I also drink raw eggs in a health drink, also some of my cooking has raw eggs included...ice cream, icing, mousse, tiramisu ect.

I even eat raw beef, shrimps, fish, and the occasional buffalo meat. I eat uncooked pork regularly (its fermented so the fermentation process kills off the bacteria).

The key to eating any food.. raw or cooked, it to make sure it is FRESH.

Prepare the food in a clean place, eat it quickly.. do not store it or re heat it for later.