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Farmer Connie said:
Welcome to the site. Glad you joined.
There are more germs and bacteria filth on Walmart's shopping cart push handles than raising chickens. Exposing yourself and family to good bacteria will only strengthen your immune systems. Sheltering your family from common germs or even simple livestock exposure, will weaken your immune systems.
Germ-phoebes are most likely to become violently ill from washing their hands 20 times a day using anti-bacterial solutions when exposed to a simple bacteria compared to someone who just practices common sense cleaning and not obsessive.

We raised 2 children whom are adults now. Exposed to chickens hands on. I was more worried about them handling legal tender currency or super market bathroom door handles far less than of our poultry.

Again, welcome. GET SOME CHICKENS! Enjoy life!
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And kiss your chickens!
 
featherhead007 said:
And kiss your chickens!
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Welcome to BYC!!! We have 3 boys (12, 3, and 13 months), having chickens has been a wonderful experience for them! They help feed and water them every morning and afternoon, our 12 year old helps clean the coop, they enjoy giving them occasional treats, and they LOVE checking for eggs! I tried to do my research to make sure we got friendlier breeds that had a better reputation with children, our buff orpingtons have done the very best with them though. I caught our 12 year old helping his papaw dig a trench yesterday, which was sweet, but he was only doing it to try to find worms to take the chickens lol.

mwob11 said:
(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.

I live in Chicago with my wife, 3 yo daughter and a cat. I'm interested in starting to raise backyard chickens next year. My wife is not opposed but has heard there are disease dangers for small children. We have a 3 year old with hopes for 1 more in the next year or so. In people's experience is this a legitimate concern or do chickens and little kids get along just fine?
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:welcome There’s so many helpful, knowledgeable folks here and I’m sure you’ll find this site a very useful resource. Please make yourself at home.

I agree with the others, very little risk to health, just follow the usual hygiene practises, washing hands etc :thumbsup
 
mwob11 said:
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?

I am new to chickens, and don't have any yet. But I am interested in setting up a backyard coop and flock next Spring and starting my research now so I wanted to join this community.

(2) How many chickens do you have right now?

None, but based on space I'm thinking 4 or 5 would be a good number to start with.

(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.

I live in Chicago with my wife, 3 yo daughter and a cat. I'm interested in starting to raise backyard chickens next year. My wife is not opposed but has heard there are disease dangers for small children. We have a 3 year old with hopes for 1 more in the next year or so. In people's experience is this a legitimate concern or do chickens and little kids get along just fine?
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I'm in Cicero, off cermak.
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