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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Mar 12, 2009, at 4:36 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:

>  My chickes run free and have no diseases. I'll even
> make mayonaise with raw eggs; I wouldn't do that with store-bought  
> eggs.

I am not sure that is safe, Lynn. I have read that salmonella is  
transmitted from hen to egg and therefore all her chicks carry it also  
regardless of their subsequent living conditions. So unless our hens  
are from salmonella-free, farm-grown hens of many generations they may  
have the disease within them and in their eggs. If that is so, then it  
is prudent to not eat raw eggs from hens that are only a few  
generations removed from any of the big hatcheries.