Mg

[fishman65]

can a chicken with mg be eaten? Are the eggs ok to eat. Just wondering?

 

[faykokoWV]

what's mg?

 

[fishman65]

mycoplasma gallisepticum

 

[faykokoWV]

http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/factsheets/pdfs/avian_mycoplasmosis_mycoplasma_gallisepticum.pdf

Ok, I read this article on it. Sounds like something you'd want to get rid of and once the bird is infected it will infect others?
the article states its transmitted to the eggs, but then it also talks about treating with antibiotics to prevent reduction in egg production.

If it were me I think I'd cull the bird that has it, clean up real good, make sure my other chickens didn't have it.

After reading this, i don't think I would eat the egg knowingly, but since it seems to be present in many comercial egg laying centers, i probably have at some point ... before I got my own chickens.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Yes, chickens with MG can be eaten. The disease dies at 104 degree and cannot live on for long after the chicken is dead.


There are many discussions of MG on this forum. Use the search function
to find them.

 

[jeza921]

What about eggs from chickens with MG or CRD? If the hen is showing symptoms, can you eat her eggs?

 

[PurpleChicken]

MG does not affect humans nor can humans carry it, except on our clothes and shoes and hands.

Eating chicken or eggs of infected chickens is not a problem.

All animals have thousands of varieties of bacteria and viruses present
in them. Only a few actually cause illness.