- Jun 2, 2010
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Hi, my name is Jamie and I am a chicken owner.
While my hubby and I have had chickens for a little while, it's been mostly for our small family and a few friends. We've just recently expanded and now have a LOT more chickens that will be increasing the amount of eggs and meat we share with our family and friends. Husband has been reading a free range poultry book that was recommending doing salmonella(sp?) testing on our birds. How do I go about this? I called my vet., and this was something the office wasn't famaliar with. Is there a "kit" I can purchase? I'm really not interested in going in to this production on a major scale, but I'd rather make sure I don't accidentally kill off my friends and family if I can avoid it by testing my birds. We're kind of an inbetween free range and cooped set up. Now that our garden is in, we clipped the worst offenders to keep them from flying the coop and they're allowed to roam their fenced in area. They just no longer have access to the rest of the farm and our harvest until WE are done with it!
I mostly have RR and BR for my egg layers and Cornish X for my meat birds. There's a couple of SL Wyandotts, Golden Comets, Black Austrolorps and two Black Jersey Giants (
cool birds!). Kind of a mish mash mix of birds that have come our way with some of them being our choices here and there. Nice little banty rooster, that we've officially decided will be our last roo. Chicken Little has gone above and beyond the call of duty and since we don't need a roo for what we want, he can pass on as being hailed as the finest king who ruled our roost. I can't imagine befriending an other one like him anyway.
Is this kind of testing common? Is it something that only the larger production (commercial) farms do? Is my husband reading too much? I don't think that's possible! Please help me learn.
Thank you! Jamie Fletcher-Phillips


I mostly have RR and BR for my egg layers and Cornish X for my meat birds. There's a couple of SL Wyandotts, Golden Comets, Black Austrolorps and two Black Jersey Giants (

Is this kind of testing common? Is it something that only the larger production (commercial) farms do? Is my husband reading too much? I don't think that's possible! Please help me learn.
Thank you! Jamie Fletcher-Phillips