I warm my chickens in the fireplace.
Posted on 10/19/2017 6:00:36 PM PDT by markomalley
Luke Gabriele was a healthy 14-year-old football player in Pennsylvania when he began to feel soreness in his chest that grew increasingly painful. After his breathing became difficult, doctors detected a mass that appeared to be a tumor.
For a week, Dan and DeAnna Gabriele thought their son was dying until tests identified the cause: not cancer, but chickens — the ones he cared for at home. They had apparently infected him with salmonella that produced a severe abscess.
The popular trend of raising backyard chickens in U.S. cities and suburbs is bringing with it a soaring number of illnesses from poultry-related diseases, at least one of them fatal.
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A “large contributing factor” to the surge, Nichols said, comes from natural food fanciers who have taken up the backyard chicken hobby but don’t understand the potential dangers. Some treat their birds like pets, kissing or snuggling them and letting them walk around the house.
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I can understand this. 9 cents for an egg is outlandish.
Stick to choking them.
We got Henrietta when she was a chick one Easter. After we had her a while, it was determined that Henrietta was a Henry and there’d be no eggs.
One day, Henry disappeared. I never found out what happened to him, but Mom did make broiled chicken a day or so after he was gone.
I would never do it, but I’ll bet there are some people who would allow chickens in bed with them. These are folks who will treat a friendly bird as though it were a lifesized stuffed toy for their kissing and hugging pleasure.
We’re all going to die.
(I’ve had chickens for tens years and have never experienced any health problems related to them. No Salmonella. No Avian Flu. No Gallus STD’s.)
I used to keep pigeons when I was a kid. Must have breathed the dust when I was cleaning their loft and contracted histoplasmosis. I remember being real sick one time afterward. Every time I get a chest X-ray the doctors get all worried that the scars on my lungs are cancer, but they aren’t.
I had hens. Of the backyard variety. I thought they were really neat, funny, and pretty smart. But I never wished to kiss one of them. :) In fact, I only picked one up if I had to move it for some reason.
I would pet them a bit sometimes. I can understand how people get really attached to them, but they DO scratch around in their own poo all day after all. Eck.
My hens contracted sometime this spring from the soil and all died. Happens. Any animal can give you the never get over - dogs, chickens, mad cows, etc.
Oh, Fer Pete’s Sake!
They find ONE case in a million that gets sick from chickens, and it’s an, ‘epidemic.’
I’ve raised HUNDREDS of laying hens through the years with no problems at all.
Well, except for raccoon attacks, hawk attacks and one dog I had that LOVED to chomp chickens. ;)
ROFL
I was very sick with a fever and had the back door open. One chicken walked in, jumped on my bed, crawled under the covers. I had no energy to move let alone shoo her away. All I could think was..."Don't poop chicken! Please don't poop!". She made a few weird sounds. I fell asleep. When I awoke, there was an egg under the covers. It was the first one she has laid.
It’s a bad idea to kiss them anyway. They’ll peck your lip!
In the wintertime the temp was 40 below sometimes- We would bring all the chickens from the coop into the warm house cellar by the furnace where they would stay for days til it warmed upoutside. We had chickens for 30 years and none of us kids ever got sick.
More BS from fakenews.com
They need to learn first thing you do is wash your eggs and your hands before putting them in your mouth
The hen must have thought she could relax and lay her first egg beside you without being disturbed. A show of trust.
I’m sorry you lost your flock. The chicken can seem so durable and tough, it’s easy to forget they need certain conditions present in order to thrive, just like we do.
Always be aware of who is using RoundUp pesticide in your area, and how close that vegetation is to your situation.
This is something you probably know much more about than I do. I’ve never raised chickens.
They need to learn first thing you do is wash your eggs and your hands before putting them in your mouth
Now were did that come from ?
I warm my chickens in the fireplace.
The hen must have thought she could relax and lay her first egg beside you without being disturbed. A show of trust.
Kids don’t get the exposure to natural pathogens like back in the day. When I was a kid growing up, we would play hide and seek in the cattle pens and play in dirt. The worst my brothers and I ever encountered was a case of pin worms.
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