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This video is about ticks. I had another question. Why don't chickens that eat ticks get Lyme disease?

Okay, because it's not really reported. If you do a search on this, I don't think there's been even one case where a chicken actually got Lyme disease.

And plus the fact that chickens are known to eat ticks if you let them free range around your farm or your house.

And since I'm living on a farm right now, I have about 20 chickens.

And so, hopefully they're cleaning up all the ticks around our area.

Now, when I did some research on this topic, I found one experiment that related to this topic and basically exposed the chicken to a tick that was carrying Lyme.

And the chicken's immune response was strong enough to defend against this bacteria.

Now, the other thing you need to know is that not all ticks carry the Lyme disease, right?

It could be less than 1% up to 50%. So, just because you get it by a tick does not mean that you're going to get Lyme disease.

And this percentage less than 1% to 50% depends on the location of where you are.

The other point about ticks is they have to be attached to your body between 36 to 48 hours or longer before the Lyme bacteria can be transmitted.

So, if it's less than 36 hours, chances are that you don't have to worry about it.

Also, it takes 3 to 5 days for that tick to fill up a blood.

That's an adult tick. And a younger tick could be between 2 to 3 days.

And so, if it hasn't filled up with blood, good chance that you're not going to be infected.

Now, getting back to this chicken question, the first thing is chickens don't have teeth.

So, if they're free-ranging, they're going to eat an insect, or a bug, or a worm, and it's going to go down their esophagus.

And it's going to end up in something called a crop.

And the crop is kind of a temporary storage place, which has friendly bacteria and has lactic acid.

So, it starts the digestive process.

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