I'd be interested if anyone has actually checked for samonella in
free range eggs. If so, does contamination or lack of it depend on
climate?
My mother once said "You don't have to worry about samonella [in
poultry meat] unless it was raised under unsanitary conditions in the
south." (I now live in the south of Arizona and "sanitary" conditions
are subject to judgement even if I assume Mom knew what she was talking
about.)
I recently explained to an egg customer that I take precautions
against samonella in my eggs simply because I have no way of being sure
the chicks I bought were samonella-free. Am I being overly cautious?
BTW, I liked the defination that pastured means they are on plant
material as opposed to bare ground, but here in the desert, we have a
vegetive cover on the ground ONLY during the rainy season. When it is
dry, anything green disappears quickly down the throat of a chicken or
some wild critter unless it is downright toxic or protected by wire
screen. Right now, I've got 10 chickens on .6 acre and I'm growing oats
under chicken wire on a scrap lumber frame which they keep eaten down as
low as they can reach through the wire. I also give them oat grass which
I grow in the greenhouse and I frequently bring home the "garbage" from
the food co-op in addition to giving them all the trimmings from our own
food.
Regards, Edna
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