OH OH OH! I forced my mom to hold a guinnea keet today and as she was holding it she said "Now watch, I am going to end up with some wierd disease!". My husband then said "just so you know, this one has BIRD AIDS." :lau:lau:gig
If you do a google search on pet ducks, on the first page there is a CDC warning about giving ducks to kids, and the risk of death from samonella. No wonder people are terrified.
I dont like the CDC for many reasons....and this is one of them. Lets scare the crap out of the general public with...
WOW!! Your lucky you didnt get a call from a lawyer saying your birds gave her the avian flu and killed her!
Seriously though, where do people think chicken eggs come from? Do they think the chicken butts are steralized between each egg, and layed into a vaccum air sealed chamber where they...
Isnt it funny, people see birds and think of the bird flu?! Funny thing was, my mom came over for easter and we had the ducks already. She had a bad cold at the time. Well we still dont have her cold and we are around the ducks all day/night.
Whos healthier now?!
KlaHaYa Gardens- I am...
mhwc56- well thats good to know if I ever decide to start snorting pigeon poop dust with dollar bills! It could harm me! :-P
She knows I have guinneas. She said Im crazy. LOL. Thats why I really expect her to come over with a face mask (I have a very clean house BTW) so she doesnt 'catch'...
Pigeon lung...never heard of that one! Well its a good thing you beat the odds and never cought it. I wonder how those new yorkers survive!!!!
I told her that they are very disease resistant. She doesnt care....she wont go near them out of fear she will catch something.
Now that the guinneas...
My mom is terrified of touching the ducks. She is CONVINCED they have the bird flu and/or some other deadly illness, and she freaks out when I let my kids touch them.
She even asked me when I bought them, before they were shipped "have they been tested for the bird flu", and of course I said...