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Backyard chickens — less healthy than you think?

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By Sean Nealon

Special to Poultry Times

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Backyard chickens may not live as good of a life as most people think.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have found backyard chickens are more likely than chickens on commercial chicken farms to be infested by ectoparasites, which are parasites such as fleas, lice and mites that live on the exterior of an organism. Their work has been published online in the Journal of Medical Entomology.

The research comes at a time when several states, including California, have banned or limited the use of isolated. . .

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