Is it ok to eat chickens that died of bird flu?

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The price of eggs is up, but there’s still lots of cheap chicken out there. Do they sell the chickens they slaughtered due to the virus? What happens if you eat them?

[Anonymous]

They don't get slaughtered. They get incinerated. That is - they get put in a huge oven and burned.

Do vultures eat it?

[Anonymous]

The short answer is no, it is not okay and those birds should not be in the food supply. I do think it's more complicated that cooked meat is fine, but somebody has to handle the raw meat to cook it and that is not fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The short answer is no, it is not okay and those birds should not be in the food supply. I do think it's more complicated that cooked meat is fine, but somebody has to handle the raw meat to cook it and that is not fine.

Ok, I didn’t think so. I was wondering why there isn’t a chicken shortage or a chicken price hike.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is no, it is not okay and those birds should not be in the food supply. I do think it's more complicated that cooked meat is fine, but somebody has to handle the raw meat to cook it and that is not fine.

Ok, I didn’t think so. I was wondering why there isn’t a chicken shortage or a chicken price hike.

Egg chickens are different than meat chickens.

[Anonymous]

Milk prices about to go up…. A second type of bird flu has been found in U.S. dairy cows.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is no, it is not okay and those birds should not be in the food supply. I do think it's more complicated that cooked meat is fine, but somebody has to handle the raw meat to cook it and that is not fine.

Ok, I didn’t think so. I was wondering why there isn’t a chicken shortage or a chicken price hike.

Egg chickens are different than meat chickens.

Are meat chickens not affected by bird flu?

[Anonymous]

No, and they should not be in our food supply. The guidelines are to incinerate them. Are some "healthy" chickens slaughtered and sold before they are identified as having bird flu symptoms? I'm sure there are some. But it probably means they're not as infected (lower viral load). And since chicken is always supposed to be well cooked, due to salmonella concerns... it's probable you're not getting sick due to high temperatures killing what little remains of viral particles after the carcass is processed.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't get slaughtered. They get incinerated. That is - they get put in a huge oven and burned.

Oh no my husband is feeding me bird flu.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is no, it is not okay and those birds should not be in the food supply. I do think it's more complicated that cooked meat is fine, but somebody has to handle the raw meat to cook it and that is not fine.

Ok, I didn’t think so. I was wondering why there isn’t a chicken shortage or a chicken price hike.

Egg chickens are different than meat chickens.

Are meat chickens not affected by bird flu?

They don't get infected as easily from different flocks.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is no, it is not okay and those birds should not be in the food supply. I do think it's more complicated that cooked meat is fine, but somebody has to handle the raw meat to cook it and that is not fine.

Ok, I didn’t think so. I was wondering why there isn’t a chicken shortage or a chicken price hike.

Egg chickens are different than meat chickens.

Are meat chickens not affected by bird flu?

They don't get infected as easily from different flocks.

Sorry for the 20 questions, but why is that? Are they a different breed or something?

Also, how does the flu virus reach chickens? Is it from wild birds in the area? Apologies for the dumb questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The price of eggs is up, but there’s still lots of cheap chicken out there. Do they sell the chickens they slaughtered due to the virus? What happens if you eat them?

Don't eat chicken sushi

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Anonymous wrote:Milk prices about to go up…. A second type of bird flu has been found in U.S. dairy cows.

Nope. Not how this works.

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Anonymous wrote:Milk prices about to go up…. A second type of bird flu has been found in U.S. dairy cows.

Nope. Not how this works.

Huh? Dairy cows will start to be slaughtered, just like the chickens if it spreads amongst them.

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Anonymous wrote:The short answer is no, it is not okay and those birds should not be in the food supply. I do think it's more complicated that cooked meat is fine, but somebody has to handle the raw meat to cook it and that is not fine.

Ok, I didn’t think so. I was wondering why there isn’t a chicken shortage or a chicken price hike.

Egg chickens are different than meat chickens.

Are meat chickens not affected by bird flu?

They don't get infected as easily from different flocks.

Sorry for the 20 questions, but why is that? Are they a different breed or something?

Also, how does the flu virus reach chickens? Is it from wild birds in the area? Apologies for the dumb questions.

NP with some farming background. No, it's not that one kind of chicken is more healthy. It's that they live in different facilities. Contamination in one flock does not (hopefully) affect another.

To answer your original question, in modern farming we eat both male and female chickens, but only hens lay eggs. And, a hen only lays so many eggs per week, it's not a factory line in there. Meanwhile there is more demand for eggs than meat, since eggs are used in all kinds of things including most baking. So, egg prices are more sensitive to flock loss.