I'm not sticking up for her, but she did it under the guise of "with Easter coming up and people getting chicks and people seeing them in stores, lets all remember how dangerous they can be for children under 5" yada, yada, yada... and then included the article.
Um... it's NO secret to...
Seriously - chicken people are just good people. Thanks for the great replies.
I searched for some info on BYC and found this on another thread. I thought I'd quote it here for you since I thought it was a great bit o' info and this will be forwarded to my anti-chicken "friend" - hmph.
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Thanks guys. You really are the best!
We're keeping our brooder clean, but we do all get chicken poop on us. It's a fact of having chicks. My boys are young enough that I can't guarantee they won't get pooped on and then wipe a runny nose, you know? We try to remember to wash hands, but it's...
A friend of mine thinks us keeping chickens is stupid. Of course. She just sent me this article:
http://www.cdc.gov/Features/SalmonellaBabyBirds/
where it goes on to say that having baby chickens will somehow cause my children to get salmonella and die. The article even says this "Do not let...