This just hit the medical wires yesterday...
The CDC described an eight-year investigation into salmonella illnesses, with more than 80 percent of the cases tied to a single hatchery in the western U.S. While CDC officials refused to identify the business, a previous report on the investigation by the health agency indicated it is in New Mexico.
Read more:
[COLOR=003399]http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/05/31/hundreds-salmonella-cases-tied-to-chicks/#ixzz1wVdu8nxl[/COLOR]
http://www.webmd.com/news/20120530/thousands-of-infections-from-1-poultry-hatchery
Hmmm... my chicks came from New Mexico (I ordered from Welp, but they have a "ship point" in New Mexico). Well, I suppose that if they have salmonella we would have been sick by now...
One in Ohio too apparently:
http://health.usnews.com/health-new...atchery-now-linked-to-salmonella-in-23-states
They will use this to attack the back yard chicken movement. Not a good time for a report like this to come out. I mean, 300 cases since 2004 related to handling of live poultry out of 50 million chicks shipped each year (since 2004 that would be 400 million chicks?!?). That seems to me to be a small % to me. Most of those cases were children under 5. The message should not be "raising backyard chickens is hazardous". It should be "don't let little kids cuddle and kiss chicks" and make them wash after playing with them, but that won't be the message that is sent.
Oh great mine came from Ohio ( Meyer Hatchery is where MPC ships from) Maybe that's why 4 of my first shipment died? The new girls seem just fine and are on medicated chick starter. Something to be said for hatching your own I guess. I don't know of any other hatchery in Ohio do you guys? Must be Meyer.
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