Salmonella in backyard chicken eggs USA News

[saddina]

sunny & the 5 egg layers :

Salmonella isn't in the chickens eggs... its the chicken itself, right?

Strains are found in both, but it's quite rare in backyard flocks (most of the cases come from contamination eather at the processing plant or at a restruant, where they cross contaminate). Keeping up with biosecurity goes a long way in keeping backyard flocks clean.​

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

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lol they don't but reptiles can carry it as well. but still handle any animal > wash up.

Oops! Sorry, I read your post wrong! My bad!

 

[chickened]

It developes in the intestines and is usually transmitted by feces contact. It can be on the egg shell because it comes out the same place as the crap.

sunny & the 5 egg layers :

Salmonella isn't in the chickens eggs... its the chicken itself, right?​

 

[dewey]

Salmonella can be inside the egg.

Rule around here is wash the hands before and after (and sometimes between!LOL) contact with the chickens or supplies, same goes for the rabbits.

 

[Mahonri]

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Same here and the boys are getting really good at not forgetting.

 

[dewey]

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Same here and the boys are getting really good at not forgetting.

That's a really good thing. It can be a tough one to become habit for kids. When my kids were really little I used to tell them to make sure that I washed my hands according to house rules. Amazing how alert they are to making sure rules are followed when they get to be the one to call the parent on it, lol.

 

[BorderKelpie]

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Same here and the boys are getting really good at not forgetting.

That's a really good thing. It can be a tough one to become habit for kids. When my kids were really little I used to tell them to make sure that I washed my hands according to house rules. Amazing how alert they are to making sure rules are followed when they get to be the one to call the parent on it, lol.

That's brillant - I bet that really does help, not to mention builing self confidance. Good for you!

 

[dewey]

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That's a really good thing. It can be a tough one to become habit for kids. When my kids were really little I used to tell them to make sure that I washed my hands according to house rules. Amazing how alert they are to making sure rules are followed when they get to be the one to call the parent on it, lol.

That's brillant - I bet that really does help, not to mention builing self confidance. Good for you!

Aww, thanks kindly. Things like that worked well with my kids and now that they're grown (ages are just out of teens & also early 30's) when they look back on that stuff they tease me and say what a slick mamma they had.

I now have grand babies by my oldest and so history repeats itself.

My oldest just winks and smiles when he watches my interactions with his babies.

OP, I believe there was a poll thread that was kind of on this topic that had lots of interesting, different views on it.

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

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More interesting some guy was quoted, "they're farm animals, not pets". I bet a lot disagree about that. Mine are pets, its ridiculous to say that they're not.
Besides, with THAT argument ie, "one shouldn't pet or hold that thing", cats and dogs carry more deadly possibilities, as do live human children

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Whomever that guy is, he'd flip if he saw my house and yard with the pretty little chickens roaming freely, and me and my doggy pooper scooper on days off scraping poops off the asphalt for my compost heap. It's hardly sterile. Its life. Surprisingly, my family has been healthier since having chickens roam freely over us. (so has the lawn) Recent scientific journal articles discuss the possibility of human immunity BENEFITS from exposure to multiple germs, and some articles have discussed "gut microbiota" in healthy vs. unhealthy humans. Its hip science.

Still, with all the poop inherent in chicken keeping, I think this hobby feeds my desire to buy soap. I have soap everywhere, for every purpose. I think I am a soap addict. A neighbor laughs at me, "good thing you have those chicken poops to wash off your porch, or I'd think you were just at the soap again".

I even shampoo & blowdry the chickens if they're dreadfully dirty, like if they ate an egg and its all over them making plasticky hard feathers, or if they roosted under another chicken. My love is Adams Flea and Tick dog shampoo, very diluted. New puppy smell

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

Washing eggs makes no sense to me, the protective waxy layer would be removed, potentially sickening germs would be rubbed into the porous shell, and the flavor could get impaired! I dont' fear germs, I work with plenty of infectious disease and there's plenty of solid evidence that biodiverse bacterial loads are beneficial to our human immunity, not harmful. Antibacterial gels are getting a lot of bad press lately, I don't use them unless I have to, at work. To remove dirt, soap is where its at; soap, water and wonderful towels. Carpe Diem.

Obviously poopy eggs are tossed into the compost heap where the chickens devour it...........