I Need Help Addressing a few Concerns

[speckledhen]

Most who oppose them have never even seen a chicken in person. Some are thinking of those huge, smelly commercial operations, which couldn't be further from a well-maintained backyard flock setup. One of my own long time friends was not happy to hear when I said I was getting a flock many years ago. She'd seen one of those nasty muck-hole type of chicken operations. When she visited and stuck her head in my coop and held a chicken, her mind was instantly changed. A well maintained coop just does not smell and neither do the birds.

Dog crap smells far worse than chicken poop, in my opinion. Just go by one of those 100 sf kennels where they keep several dogs and don't clean up after them daily and take a whiff. Ew, now that's disgusting!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I found your post to be rather unhelpful to the OP--essentially telling her that the expert was right and there was no point in her contesting the issue. Yes, there can be concern, but the prevalence and risk are overall pretty minimal--not at all what the ophthalmologist said. Yes, your sister-in-law was one who got a very bum deal, and I am not discounting that, but that doesn't mean that most folks would develop the ocular form, or any form of histoplasmosis.

 

[bantamrooster]

I found your post to be rather unhelpful to the OP--essentially telling her that the expert was right and there was no point in her contesting the issue.  Yes, there can be concern, but the prevalence and risk are overall pretty minimal--not at all what the ophthalmologist said.   Yes, your sister-in-law was one who got a very bum deal, and I am not discounting that, but that doesn't mean that most folks would develop the ocular form, or any form of histoplasmosis.

I sure didnt find anything useful from your posts either.
IDK if mine was useful to the OP or anyone else but like I said all I was doing was giving the name of the only disease ive ever heard or known of that was related to losing sight due to poultry.
you made a pretty large leap to assume what you did from my post. Common sense should of told you no one that believes what the expert eye dr. had said would be on BYC let alone owned chickens.

 

[chooks4life]

I found your post to be rather unhelpful to the OP--essentially telling her that the expert was right and there was no point in her contesting the issue. Yes, there can be concern, but the prevalence and risk are overall pretty minimal--not at all what the ophthalmologist said. Yes, your sister-in-law was one who got a very bum deal, and I am not discounting that, but that doesn't mean that most folks would develop the ocular form, or any form of histoplasmosis.

I thought it was an attempt to be helpful, bantamrooster didn't imply or state anything about it being a huge risk, merely stated the name of the disease and that a relative had been told that was the likely cause of their blindness.

In my experience doctors and vets are quick to blame something on anything, just to have a diagnosis, in fact I've been told by both doctors and vets that one of the pieces of advice they had drummed into them is to make a diagnosis even if they have to make it up --- just do not admit that they don't know what it is, under any circumstances.

It seems to me there's been a prolonged bit of misunderstanding on this thread between people who were all trying to be helpful to the OP, from my viewpoint nobody was anti the OP's mission.

Best wishes to all.