Don’t kiss your birds
October 31, 2018 11:38 AM   Subscribe

The CDC has clarified that it never said you couldn't dress your chickens up for Halloween. It's unclear why news outlets reported that the CDC referenced Halloween specifically, but its website has a guide about handling poultry in general.
posted by numaner (6 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
The CDC also has a website for zombie preparedness.
posted by exogenous at 11:50 AM on October 31, 2018 [1 favorite]


Well wait, I'm still a little confused, am I allowed to dress up as a chicken or not?

full disclosure: I am positively riddled with salmonella 24/7, it's just a choice I've made.
posted by GoblinHoney at 11:53 AM on October 31, 2018 [2 favorites]


dressing a chicken = cutting up a dead chicken

The warning never had anything to do with clothes.
posted by Sys Rq at 12:32 PM on October 31, 2018 [9 favorites]


So, every evening I grab our backyard chicken and haul her to her little house. This is to keep her from being eaten overnight. You would think that this is an obvious choice, and the chicken herself would go into the house. But, she wants to look in the window at us.

I wash my hands after handling the chicken, but if she is in fact covered by salmonella as these warnings suggest, should I go out there in a hazmat suit?
posted by Midnight Skulker at 3:16 PM on October 31, 2018


Huh. If chickens are covered in salmonella, then many of my friends and I should have died a long time ago. We all keep chickens, some have let them into the home, children have handled them, we don't wash (or sand - wtf?) our eggs, etc. I eat our delicious home-grown eggs with relish, and will not be scared off by some over-zealous bureaucrat. FWIW, one of my chicken-keeping friends worked in public health for decades, so I trust her knowledge and judgement of what is/isn't safe.
posted by dbmcd at 3:51 PM on October 31, 2018 [2 favorites]


“It hasn’t killed me yet, therefore it never will.” Sound logic.

There’s this great new game you should try; it’s called Russian Roulette.
posted by Sys Rq at 9:28 AM on November 1, 2018 [2 favorites]


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