Egg recall - there's gold in them thar hen houses!

[Wifezilla]

I posted that on my FB too. Nice how helpful all that inspection and certification is, aint it?

If a backyard flock has a problem, the owners get sick and maybe one or two other families. If a big factory place has a problem, THOUSANDS get sick. So who does the USDA think the problem is?

Grrrrrrrr

 

[Dace]

I posted that on my FB too. Nice how helpful all that inspection and certification is, aint it?

If a backyard flock has a problem, the owners get sick and maybe one or two other families. If a big factory place has a problem, THOUSANDS get sick. So who does the USDA think the problem is?

Grrrrrrrr

128 MILLION recalled eggs.....

Crazy.

 

[me&thegals]

I have chickens--lots--and haven't bought eggs from the store for 3 years this fall. Still, can't backyard flocks get salmonella? And can't organic-fed chickens get salmonella? Raising your own food is great, but I don't believe it guarantees no germs anywhere, ever.

 

[Mackay]

If your flock didn' atrrive with salmonella it probably won't get it.

But I have been wondering about that. How can you test to see if your flock is salmonella free?

 

[urban dreamer]

I think I'm gonna cook my chooks a nice dinner tonight after class! DF can fend for himself

 

[Wifezilla]

The conditions in a battery hen house and the conditions in a well maintained backyard flock are two totally different things! First the SUNLIGHT alone kills a lot of the bad bacteria. Plus natural sunlight also means your HENS will have a proper vitamin D level and be able to fight off diseases and infections much easier.

"Most types of Salmonella live in the intestinal tracts of animals and birds and are transmitted to humans by contaminated foods of animal origin. Stringent procedures for cleaning and inspecting eggs were implemented in the 1970s and have made salmonellosis caused by external fecal contamination of egg shells extremely rare. However, unlike eggborne salmonellosis of past decades, the current epidemic is due to intact and disinfected grade A eggs. The reason for this is that Salmonella enteritidis silently infects the ovaries of healthy appearing hens and contaminates the eggs before the shells are formed.

Although most infected hens have been found in the northeastern United States, the infection also occurs in hens in other areas of the country. In the Northeast, approximately one in 10,000 eggs may be internally contaminated. In other parts of the United States, contaminated eggs appear less common. Only a small number of hens seem to be infected at any given time, and an infected hen can lay many normal eggs while only occasionally laying an egg contaminated with the Salmonella bacterium. "

 

[freemotion]

Chickens fed a whole-grain diet will be very unlikely to get diseases. I've had no discernable disease in my flock, ever. The occasional (rare) bird found dead for no readily observable reason, yes, but never a flock-wide...or partial flock....illness or anything to treat.

Feeding medicated feed also helps create conditions ripe for resistant bacteria.

Salmonella found INSIDE eggs is also unique to battery hens. If you only cook poopy eggs and only use naturally clean eggs for raw use, you should be safe.

 

[FarmerDenise]

We never use poopy eggs for raw use. If they are really nasty, we feed it to the dog, she thinks it's eggstra special

By not washing the eggs, we also keep the protective coating intact, which is designed to prevent nasties from entering the egg and harming the embryo.

If an egg needs washing, we do so immediately before use and needless to say, we never sell dirty eggs, nor do we give dirty eggs away.

I'll have to post that on my FB too

 

[valmom]

I am grateful to my old girls for giving us our eggs. They do OK for 6 yo chickies!

(someone tell me PLEASE that it is easier to introduce new young hens to oldsters than I have heard it is. Otherwise we may never have young egg layers until the old girls die off)

 

[Marshmallow Man]

I am grateful to my old girls for giving us our eggs. They do OK for 6 yo chickies!

(someone tell me PLEASE that it is easier to introduce new young hens to oldsters than I have heard it is. Otherwise we may never have young egg layers until the old girls die off)

We have a 8'x16' house that is divided in to 2 8x8 rooms with a door frame between them. When we have new hens we put chicken wire over the door frame opening and separate the old from the new. We leave them like this for a couple weeks. Then remove the chicken wire. There is a little pecking order going on but the rooster keeps them under control. No real problems.