well stop touching turkeys then -MW

I'm new.  I've been given a couple of temporary projects until everything gets sorted out.  One of them involves training a turkey to run on a treadmill.  We're trying to get her to run up to 11 miles per hour.

She's molting, so her feathers are everywhere.  The first day we got her to 4 mph.  We give her breaks when she's tired.  We wear scrubs and gloves, but sometimes she flaps around.

Over the weekend what I thought was nothing but a slight sunburn, or change of climate turns into this insane rash on my arms and legs that is dry, red, swollen, and itchy. I changed a lot of things at the same time, so it could be caused by one of the following things (in order of likelihood): turkey, sleeping on a dorm room floor, switching from body wash to soap, switching from lotion to baby oil, change of climate including more sunlight, heat, and humidity.  So I started using really mild body wash, using sunscreen as lotion all the time, but still sleeping on the floor and touching the turkey.  This rash does not go away.  I start sleeping on a couch but continue to touch the turkey and it doesn't go away.  By process of elimination I determine that I am allergic to turkeys.  Which is weird, because I've never been allergic to any animal before.

I see a dermatologist, who asks me "So... what are you doing with these turkeys?" I explain my research to her, and she tells me that yes, it does look like I have contact dermatitis, and it's probably because of the turkey.  She tells me to prevent re-exposure and use sunscreen.

Now I have to find a new project to work on.