{"id":230,"date":"2025-02-24T10:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/?p=230"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:50:35","slug":"long-time-no-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/long-time-no-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Time No Write&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sorry, it&#8217;s been busy. I had a baby last spring, and my little one has kept me very busy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have wrapped up our feed store sampling and will most likely not be doing further backyard flock sampling. We are still working on analyzing the chick data, but we have submitted our analysis of <em>Salmonella <\/em>and <em>Campylobacter<\/em> for peer review. Brief highlights below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From 2022-2024, we found that:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>13% of farms had <em>S. enterica <\/em>(9\/70 farms)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Salmonella <\/em>was more likely on farms with multiple types of poultry (e.g., chickens plus turkeys or chickens plus ducks); each additional species present increased the risk by 7.6 fold<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Salmonella <\/em>was also more likely on farms with younger birds (probably due to high rates of <em>S. enterica <\/em>in hatchling chicks). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>83% of the <em>Salmonella<\/em> was from types of <em>Salmonella <\/em>that make humans sick, but rarely make birds sick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>19% of farms had <em>Campylobacter <\/em>(12\/63 farms)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Campylobacter<\/em> was 27 times more likely on farms with multi-age flocks (e.g., young chicks plus adult birds)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Campylobacter <\/em>was 11 times more common on farms with multiple types of poultry (e.g., chickens plus turkeys). Each additional species increased the risk by a factor of 4.8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommendations to reduce your risk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Don&#8217;t mix poultry species. Keep chickens separate from turkeys, ducks, meat birds, and geese. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don&#8217;t mix ages. If possible, replace your entire flock at the same time, and clean the coop and equipment in between (soap and water, followed by bleach or another sanitizer).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/files\/2025\/02\/Hatchling-chick1_AJE-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/files\/2025\/02\/Hatchling-chick1_AJE-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/files\/2025\/02\/Hatchling-chick1_AJE-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/files\/2025\/02\/Hatchling-chick1_AJE-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/files\/2025\/02\/Hatchling-chick1_AJE-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/files\/2025\/02\/Hatchling-chick1_AJE-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/files\/2025\/02\/Hatchling-chick1_AJE-1568x2218.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/files\/2025\/02\/Hatchling-chick1_AJE-scaled.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, it&#8217;s been busy. I had a baby last spring, and my little one has kept me very busy. We have wrapped up our feed store sampling and will most likely not be doing further backyard flock sampling. We are still working on analyzing the chick data, but we have submitted our analysis of Salmonella &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/long-time-no-write\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Long Time No Write&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6700,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"aetter","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/author\/aetter\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}