Salmonella

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A friend of my wife asked if our chickens are vaccinated against Salmonella and said we shouldn't eat the eggs unless the chickens were vaccinated, I always thought cooking properly prevents any risk of salmonella?

A bit confused, I did a quick search on this and found salmonella is on the egg shell if present at all so a quick scalding in boiling water kills it.

Does anyone vaccinate their chickens?

Thanks Mark
 
Nor me!

I'm sure this lady is mistaken, as in the Edwina Curry scare! (I think a lot of us on the forum would be suffering from salmonella poisoning if she were right :o ) Just make sure chicken meat is thoroughly cooked & eggs too if you want to be certain.
 
There are many different types of salmonella.As to vaccinating chooks against it,I don't think it is done,if I boil eggs or fry them I always have runny yolks,I've never had salmonella.
 
I've been eating my hens eggs since October with runny yolks and I'm still alive!
If not then I'm a type-tastic ghost!

My friend up the road has had hens for years and never had a problem either

Osric
 
With all of the different strains of Salmonella it would be impossible to guard against them all. Plus it mutates very fast so it would be near impossible to protect against it if vaccinated.

Salmonella is one of the illnesses that are usually encountered while the food is at the processors. Here in the U.S. there has only been one outbreak that was traced backto the fields where veggies grew, the rest were traced back to improper handling at the packaging/processing level.
 
I've been eating eggs all my life - from Raw to Hard Boiled and I've never vaccinated my birds... they are fit and healthy though and I would not eat eggs from sick birds.

As Lydia says, there are many types of Salmonella - the ones that are Zoonotic (can be passed to us) are Salmonella Typhimurium and Enteritidis.

Signs are drooping wings, pasted up vents, a very strong smell, ruffled feathers and death.... Rats and Mice can also carry it so it's important to keep these under control. Wild birds can carry it - especially rooks - so never let them eat your birds food from their run if you can help it.

I'm sure you wouldn't consider eating eggs from a bird that had these signs and they would probably stop laying anyway.

Commercial laying flocks were tested back in the 80's after the scare - but these rules have since been abolished by Defra.
 
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