Just curious - who eats raw eggs from their own chickens?

[EweSheep]

Yep, there IS a risk but we play russian roulette everytime!

 

[Mac in Wisco]

After the salmonella scare last year there were a lot of proponents of backyard chickens that were saying that such things only happen in filthy commercial facilities and that somehow backyard birds were magically immune to such things because they are well cared for.

If your birds run around outside, if you have rodents, if you have flies, if you have wild birds that enter your coop or share feed with your birds, if you have cats that commingle with your birds and defecate near them, if there are times of the year when conditions in your coop/run are rather damp, then an argument could be made that eggs from backyard flocks are even more susceptible to contamination from salmonella than those from conventional large-scale production systems.

 

[Imp]

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While you are eating raw eggs? Isn't that kind of overkill?

I rarely eat raw eggs anymore, but used to eat cookie dough. Remember Orange Julius (Are they still around?) I always had them put the raw egg in the Julius, when I was at a mall. Only cost 10c extra.

I agree with mac in abilene that there is little reason to believe BYC are any safer than commercial operations. The only benefit is smaller flocks means less chickens will get sick if it is hit by a disease.

Imp

 

[yinepu]

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I just don't like the taste of those pale anemic looking store bought things that they call "eggs"...

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

In any type of dough. I will eat any dough with raw eggs. Delicious!

 

[dewey]

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Also agree with that and so I'm more concerned about home eggs.

But not concerned enough about either one to stop eating certain things.

 

[call ducks]

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Ahh NO!

You should not eat raw eggs period! AT all.. no matter if you bought them or collected from your hens! Both ways they can have samonella.

No raw eggs around here. I won't have it nithere well mom.

 

[sourland]

Ever seen anyone or any animal with a Salmonella outbreak?

 

[Laurajean]

Personally, I wouldn't eat raw eggs from anywhere, including my own.

Here's one reason why:

http://www.grit.com/Animals/Flies-and-Salmonella.aspx

 

[HHandbasket]

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Mwahahahaha! The WHOLE bowl of cookie dough is MINE! Nothing goodier than that! Besides chocolate cake batter!

x2 !!