birds infecting us

[lazy gardener]

Quote: THIS IS SO TRUE! Viruses and even parasites manage to spread much more easily amongst the same species (many are species specific)..... Does that mean it would be safer to keep your children in the chicken coop and bring the chucks in the house??

I think OP hubby might protest that one. That's a tough case... snotty noses vs. CHUCKS, did you say????? I'd take the snotty noses. Though, we could allow the chuck in for a visit this coming Friday.

 

[Bunnylady]

Cuz he's always in his undergarments

Well, naturally he is! You wouldn't expect him to be in someone else's, would you?

 

[lazy gardener]

Well, naturally he is! You wouldn't expect him to be in someone else's, would you?

Let's not go down that road.

 

[Boonie Stomper]

You are my sort of person!

thanks

 

[Stayc]

Of course, if there is any avian influenza going around in your area, play it safer. We wouldn't want to facilitate it mutation into a human flu pandemic.
That said. I shared soup with my ever demanding girls right from the bowl as I ate. I also walk around their yard barefoot. I don't refrigerate their eggs most of the time, and sometimes eat them raw. None the worse for all that!

I'm going to af

You've been peeking ?

 

[Stayc]

Well, naturally he is! You wouldn't expect him to be in someone else's, would you?

 

[Boonie Stomper]

Was it chicken soup?

No... Cabbage tomato pastrami seasonings and bacon grease

 

[Bunnylady]

THIS IS SO TRUE! Viruses and even parasites manage to spread much more easily amongst the same species (many are species specific)..... Does that mean it would be safer to keep your children in the chicken coop and bring the chucks in the house??

I know you are being facetious, but things are a bit more complex than just "oh, I'm around these bacteria all the time, to me they are harmless." There is a difference between immunity and resistance, and a thing called an infective dose. If you are basically swimming in a bacterial soup, you may ingest more bacteria than your body can deal with; however familiar they might be. Cuts and scrapes can become infected by bacteria that you carry on your skin every day; as long as they stay on the outside of your skin, all is well, but if they get inside, they can wreak havoc. We are teeming with microflora, and something as simple as stress can upset the balance that keeps them from creating infection.

All that aside, I'm a little too familiar with a duck's -um- excretory potential to want to have one in the house.

 

[Newfarmer36]

I know you are being facetious, but things are a bit more complex than just "oh, I'm around these bacteria all the time, to me they are harmless." There is a difference between immunity and resistance, and a thing called an infective dose. If you are basically swimming in a bacterial soup, you may ingest more bacteria than your body can deal with; however familiar they might be. Cuts and scrapes can become infected by bacteria that you carry on your skin every day; as long as they stay on the outside of your skin, all is well, but if they get inside, they can wreak havoc. We are teeming with microflora, and something as simple as stress can upset the balance that keeps them from creating infection.

All that aside, I'm a little too familiar with a duck's -um- excretory potential to want to have one in the house.

I was just holding her up to me on the couch. It lasted maybe 2 mins and had to bring her back out. So I didn't have that problem.

 

[QuailExpert]

this is what my parents said when i wanted to bring my quail into the house. eventually they let me do it but it tool some convincing. it is very rare a human will get sick from another animal. typically you can tell when a bird is sick and even then there is a very small chance its actually transferable to a human.