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I can't find a CLEAR answer, but I can't see any reason why not.  Mycoplasma gallisepticum is not transmissible to people.  I did find a source that said that poultry carcasses are downgraded from birds with MG, which implies they are still considered edible (though probably not as a broiler, but maybe in canned form, or in pet food, etc.).

Same here. I couldn't really find anything anywhere. They were wanting to know about eating the eggs though, they don't eat their chickens. I still don't see why they couldn't, but thought I would ask others. Thanks for the help

 

[Bawk]

I have had some people ask me this and I can't seem to find the answer for them. Can you eat your chickens eggs if they have mg? Anyone know? I thought yes, but didn't want to misinform

Why would they want to? From what I understand the birds have lesions or growths on the inside/it affects their lungs. Even more, if not culling, why would they want to keep them as the disease can be spread to wild birds, it can also be passed through the egg to offspring if they were to hatch any. See read about lesions:

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/disea...ction-mg-chronic-respiratory-disease-chickens

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Why would they want to? From what I understand the birds have lesions or growths on the inside/it affects their lungs. Even more, if not culling, why would they want to keep them as the disease can be spread to wild birds, it can also be passed through the egg to offspring if they were to hatch any. See read about lesions:

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/disea...ction-mg-chronic-respiratory-disease-chickens

They don't want to eat the chicken, they want to know if you can eat the eggs. I know how the disease affects the birds body, but someone asked me about the eggs and I haven't ever read anything about that. There chickens don't even have MG, they just wondered.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I have had some people ask me this and I can't seem to find the answer for them. Can you eat your chickens eggs if they have mg? Anyone know? I thought yes, but didn't want to misinform

I had suspected crd in my flock. not tested. I went through a lot of stuff with them including culling the flock. didnt matter. new ones got just as sick as the old. tons of antibiotics later i started them on denaguard once a month preventative dose. 3 months of treatment and no need for it since. thats been a few months as well. I can and do eat the eggs even while they took the denaguard. All the research i was able to do came up with nothing harmful in it. I am not recommending the eggs be eaten, just telling my experiences. I spoke with professors at perdue and they informed me it would be useless for a necropsy because crd is everywhere. including the hatcheries. My chickens picked it up from me feeding them the fresh cut grass clipping.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I had suspected crd in my flock. not tested. I went through a lot of stuff with them including culling the flock. didnt matter. new ones got just as sick as the old. tons of antibiotics later i started them on denaguard once a month preventative dose. 3 months of treatment and no need for it since. thats been a few months as well. I can and do eat the eggs even while they took the denaguard.  All the research i was able to do came up with nothing harmful in it.  I am not recommending the eggs be eaten, just telling my experiences.  I spoke with professors at perdue and they informed me it would be useless for a necropsy because crd is everywhere. including the hatcheries. My chickens picked it up from me feeding them the fresh cut grass clipping. 

Sorry for your loss. Your new chickens may of got it, if you didn't properly clean the areas that your chickens were in. Or wild birds may have brought it back. Thanks for letting me know your experience with eggs. I was curious along with the other person that asked me, knowledge is power.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

thank you, I have 2 coops and i thought i knew every thing there was to know about bio-security. LOL

 

[iamfivewire]

sorry about the chickie Elli
;- (

 

[ellymayRans]

sorry about the chickie Elli 

 ;- (

Thanks. Sad thing to come home to for sure.

Brighter note...all the EE babes we "OD'd" with a vaccine are still doing great and almost fully feathered already! Still amazes me how quickly they grow!!

 

[flyladyrocks]

Happy April Fools day! Within the first 5 minutes I was up my 14 yo son got me 3 times. I opened our bedroom door and ran smack into plastic wrap (this was before coffee!).

Here are some pics of our latest photo shoot:

the first 3 of our "fake mama" for our 2 teeny chicks. The funniest part about it is they occasionally loose each other in it and freak out:







The older 6 had their first outdoor field trip yesterday and loved it:



2 of our hens running in terror from the bitty babes. Today they weren't terrified, they were curious and watched them very intently:

 

[Dish chickens]

Very pretty birds....