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Chickens are certainly no exception.
To begin, we will break the list into two groups, those critters that live on the outside of your chickens and those that live inside. This article investigates the more common ones that infest the outside of your birds and gives hints on how to minimise the risk and damage they cause. The proliferation of parasites in a flock can result in unthriftiness and general depression, to ultimately death of any or all of the birds, therefore it is important to recognise the symptoms and to act swiftly to eradicate the problem, before secondary disease decimates the entire flock. There are a number of reasons why pests can get out of hand. Birds kept in overcrowded conditions are far more prone to parasitic infection and disease than those kept in less close proximity.