Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[Searsmom]

If you don't wash your eggs you don't have to refrigerate. Keep them in a dark cool place they will last six months or more. If unsure put them in water and if they float they are bad.

I've been reading up on salmonella - that's the reason we wash eggs and refrigerate in the US. I don't wash mine and do refridgerate. In the UK, they vaccinate so they don't wash/refrigerate.

I'm curious though, what % of farms have salmonella? Is it just factory farms? What are the odds that my BY hens might get salmonella and pass it on?

 

[mrballance]

I've been reading up on salmonella - that's the reason we wash eggs and refrigerate in the US. I don't wash mine and do refridgerate. In the UK, they vaccinate so they don't wash/refrigerate.

I'm curious though, what % of farms have salmonella? Is it just factory farms? What are the odds that my BY hens might get salmonella and pass it on?

I do clean eggs that are very dirty and refrigerate and put them in the front row to be eaten first. I wash my hands before and after. I understand if you keep your hens and their house clean you shouldn't have a problem.

 

[ronott1]

I've been reading up on salmonella - that's the reason we wash eggs and refrigerate in the US. I don't wash mine and do refridgerate. In the UK, they vaccinate so they don't wash/refrigerate.

I'm curious though, what % of farms have salmonella? Is it just factory farms? What are the odds that my BY hens might get salmonella and pass it on?

When a chicken dies here I take advantage of the Free Necropsy service we have in California. They have never found Salmonella at my place. No e coli either.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Washed eggs can get salmonella from handling since the cuticle is gone.
EU egg marketing laws state that Class A eggs – those found on supermarkets shelves, must not be washed, or cleaned in any way.
Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, eggs aren't refrigerated since they haven't been washed.

ETA
I believe it was a salmonella outbreak that caused the USDA to require washing.

 

[ronott1]

Washed eggs can get salmonella from handling since the cuticle is gone.
EU egg marketing laws state that Class A eggs – those found on supermarkets shelves, must not be washed, or cleaned in any way.
Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, eggs aren't refrigerated since they haven't been washed.

ETA
I believe it was a salmonella outbreak that caused the USDA to require washing.

It started with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle back in 1906.

It is a situation where the Pendulum swung back too far.

 

[Searsmom]

It started with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle back in 1906.

It is a situation where the Pendulum swung back too far.

I have got to read that book. I keep catching references everywhere I read, and then NPR did a show and mentioned it. It's like the lucky penny that keeps turning up.

 

[Darkangael]

Would love to have a good noodle recipie. I also keep seeing references to The Jungle. I think I will have to read it too at some point.

 

[yinepu]

We have to refrigerate ours here during the summer (no AC and no cool place to keep them).. otherwise with as hot as it gets they start to develop right in the cartons...
My mother on the other hand never refrigerated eggs when we were growing up.. we had a back porch where the eggs stayed fairly cool even during the heat of summer.. so developing eggs weren't an issue

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I feel you. Yes, if they're fertile, I would definitely refrigerate in Texas.
That summer it stayed above 100 here, if I didn't collect a couple times a day they'd start developing. That really turns egg customers off.

I saw eggs on the shelf in little tiendas in the tropics. Definitely no AC in them. I imagine the hens weren't with roosters.

 

[Araucana16]

So it was a while ago people were posting about this - I wasn't on BYC for a while because I thought for a moment that chickens was entirely out this spring, and was very upset... didn't want BYC to remind me - but I wanted to address the whole vegan thing.

I am planning on becoming my own little version of vegan (no meat at all, no dairy at all, my chicken's eggs) and it has nothing to do with what someone said ("milking hurts the cow", and "eggs are baby chickens"). It does have to do with how healthy it is, and animal treatment. I have no problem eating eggs if the hens are treated well, just as I would gladly consume some dairy (I wouldn't make it a habit for health reasons) if the cattle were treated well. It used to be that if the cattle/hogs/chickens were treated well, I would eat meat, but I've been meat free for a year now, and I feel so much better, and more than that... something about not eating meat for a long time makes the idea repulsive to me