Backyard chicken raising continues to grow. Owners love these chickens, too. In fact, they may love them too much. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week that an emerging public health trend in the form of increased outbreaks of salmonella.
Source: The Washington Post, September 14, 2016.
It doesn’t help that, according to the available data, a not-insignificant share of poultry-keepers kiss their chickens and allow them into the living room. These head-scratching findings are among the “high-risk practices” occurring as what once were production animals “are increasingly being considered household pets, a new CDC study said.
INSIGHTS: This article and the CDC study offer good information from which to counsel chicken owners on proper husbandry practices. Kissing in the kitchen isn’t one of them.