Chicken poop and children

[dawg53]

yes doc, told me, that if it didn't go away they would give antibiodics. as soon as there was blood in her stool, of course I freaked and brought her to doc., where they did a stool sample.
kids are always in coop handling chickens, and even helping cleaning the coop. Her age I'm sure had a lot to do with it.
Just wanted the op, to know which symptoms to watch for.
Although, with older kids, being aloud to use a knife, their imunties are probley quiet strong, as compaired to a little one.

i wonder what the incubation period? Not sure if this is the right word.. How long it would take for symptoms to accour?
I would think fairly fast.. within 24 hrs?

Here's a link, scroll down to "Salmonella Incubation Period."
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/salmonella-incubation-period.html

 

[furbabymum]

I caught my 1 year old actively eating poop twice. He's 2 now and seems ok.

 

[Beachykeen]

Thanks for all the wonderfully helpfull, informative and anecdotal replies. I am happy tp report that all the kids are just fine and did not suffer any ill effects. It was harder on me then them because I knew where that scraper had been ;-)

 

[MeatKing]

Great to hear, I'm glad they are well!!