I've helped pull them out and break open the sacks when the jills are giving birth -never ever had an issue with them biting the kids,wife or myself-never had a Jill eat them from being handled to young.we handle them for an hour a day till they a few months old have them in the house running around playing with the dogs.had me in stitches when I've taken them for a Jill jab and the vet gets out the gloves lol.some folk are just plain scared and I reckon they can sense it.atb dc