In the News: Backyard Chickens Dangerous!

[getaclue]

I guess I should stop eating my bologna sandwiches while cleaning the poop trays,

You can eat your bologna sandwich while cleaning the poop trays, as long as you don't feed the bologna to your chickens, so they don't get salmonella.

 

[Sunshine Flock]

We were sold on the necessity of Purell hand sanitizer and anti-bacterial soap.

For the last few decades we've been bombarded with all kinds of horror stories and warnings. How the heck the generations before us survived so that we, too, can suffer just like they did and die horrible deaths from the likes of chickens, I just don't get it.

So sure: be safe and be wise.

And for crying out loud toss the Purell and fancy soap and get out there and roll around naked in a pile of chicken poop. But maybe close your mouth and hold your nose while you're doing it.

 

[chickendreams24]

We were sold on the necessity of Purell hand sanitizer and anti-bacterial soap.

For the last few decades we've been bombarded with all kinds of horror stories and warnings. How the heck the generations before us survived so that we, too, can suffer just like they did and die horrible deaths from the likes of chickens, I just don't get it.

So sure: be safe and be wise.

And for crying out loud toss the Purell and fancy soap and get out there and roll around naked in a pile of chicken poop. But maybe close your mouth and hold your nose while you're doing it.

Okay I just have to say you made me laugh so hard I almost peed. LoL

It's so true.

I have seen MRSA myself this year when my Grandpa got in in a care home for his Alzheimer's.

This is a man I've seen with one cold in his life. Yes he's elderly and in the end stages of the disease but he's had pneumonia 2 times this year and has a super bug VRE living in his urinary tract that they have told us they are completely unable to kill!

It's terrible that we have created these with all of our panic.

I grew up with cats dogs pigs a turtle chickens ducks hamsters a guinea pig horses fish tanks and the odd wild life that we rehabbed. None of these animals ever gave us anything. All of which we kissed hugged and ran around. We were also nearly always barefoot on our small country farm, with a gravel driveway-which my brothers and I ran across. A foot wash before bed to wash the dirt off and we were golden. Yeah our hands were washed but not crazily often. Catching toads and frogs and kissing them to see if they'd turn into princesses(my brothers) and princes.

I have now also done bumblefoot surgeries without gloves(I do usually wear gloves now) that's nearly always staphylococcus if anyone doesn't know.

My brother is raising his children as we we're raised. My sister in law to be is afraid to let her daughter get her hands dirty in a potted plant so she bought her gardening gloves. As cute as that is I think my niece's immunity will suffer.

 

[chickendreams24]

I will also point out that during the summer I now do chicken chores in chore designated flip flops and follow the same principle of washing my feet when I'm done. I also tend to not paint my toenails during the summer because it's deadly(as the flock chases me around trying to eat my pretty toes) lol

I have been sick less in the last 2 years than I have since I got mono in high school.

 

[BantyChooks]

I guess I should stop eating my bologna sandwiches while cleaning the poop trays,

Ditto, or sharing coffee with a chook that happens to land on my shoulder.

 

[Molpet]

I read somewhere that the washing of food and waterers in the kitchen sink was the spreader of salmonella in BYC. along w/- washing hands...
well I am guilty of not washing hands, but I wash outside or in the basement

 

[BantyChooks]

I read somewhere that the washing of food and waterers in the kitchen sink was the spreader of salmonella in BYC. along w/- washing hands...
well I am guilty of not washing hands, but I wash outside or in the basement

Agree. Washing chicken stuff in the sink would just be nuts. I have a dedicated sink.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Sounds like Big Ag propaganda to me. What good are you to them if you don't buy their product? I'm pretty sure we domesticated animals at least 10,000 years ago and suspect by now our immune systems have the majority of the kinks worked out. Unless your birds are infected with H5N1 avian influenza.....................

 

[Dayrel]

But illnesses can be prevented with proper handling. The CDC recommends that people raising chickens wash their hands thoroughly after handling the birds, eggs or nesting materials, and leave any shoes worn in a chicken coop outside.

So, practice good bio-security. Okay...

Since January, more than 1,100 people have contracted salmonella poisoning from chickens and ducks
...
More than 1 million people fall ill each year from salmonella contamination in food

So, roughly 700x more people are contaminated by the mass-market, regulated food industry. Okay...

 

[AllenK RGV]

So, practice good bio-security. Okay...


So, roughly 700x more people are contaminated by the mass-market, regulated food industry. Okay...

Does the CDC have any advice for what to do with a dog that loves chicken droppings then loves to come breathe in your face? Or am I just up the river? I bet I'm not long for this world now