Is salmonella still an issue with home produced eggs?

[Smartie_Pants]

You know how they always tell you never to eat raw brownie, cookie, or cake batter that has eggs in it, because of the threat of salmonella? Well, I was wondering if its the same with the eggs my chickens and ducks lay. I feel totally comfortable licking the brownie bowl when using their eggs, but I don't understand exactly how the salmonella works. Any thoughts?

 

[chickenbottom]

if it was an issue between life and death i probably would be dead. i actually think its healthier you dont have all of those steroids or other things bad for people and lets face it that brownie batter and cake batter is delicious lol just my opinion on it. even though i didnt answer your question completely.

 

[EweSheep]

Samonella is still an issue but if your birds have been tested and nothing found, I would not worry about it. If no one got sick so far, I would not worry about it either.

I still lick the bowl from my cookies and brownies and never got sick from them. It was good delicious!

 

[WalkingWolf]

I would like to know too, people for years ate or drank raw eggs. I grew up cleaning the cake bowl and licking the beaters when my DM baked. I always thought and maybe I am wrong, that the bloom on eggs was a barrier to bacteria, and washing a egg actually let bacteria get in the egg.

 

[Charlene]

I've wondered the same thing. I think there is still some Salmonella around, but probably not as much since presumably you are not raising 1000 chickens in a 12x12 room.

Even commercially I thought it was all scare-hype, but once I mentioned this to a friend who DID get salmonella from eating cookie dough. He was in the hospital at least a week and lost a bunch of weight so he didn't think it was hype.

 

[WalkingWolf]

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Lost a bunch of weight huuuh, now what a novel diet.

 

[EweSheep]

Being sick is not a novel idea!

I think perhaps commercial egg layers have salmonella more often than our homegrown flock.

 

[WalkingWolf]

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I agree sheep but it was a thought I could lose about 30 pounds.

 

[EweSheep]

I need to lose at least 75 lbs LOL!

 

[rainbowgardens]

I sometimes down a raw egg if I'm too busy to cook and there are no leftovers in the fridge.
I would never do it with store-bought, though, I must confess that I always licked out the brownie bowl, even with the store-bought eggs in it.
Of course, my immune system is strong and I have a wonderful colony of benefitial probiotic bacteria in my digestive system from eating cultered foods.
By the way, everybody has salmonella and e-coli bacteria in their intestines. It's only when the balance of benefitial to harmful bacteria gets thrown off that we have problems. Remember, people lived for thousands of years without refrigeration and pasturization.