Gentle pecking of feathers where the recipient is ... or nutrients while patched on the outside skin or feathers. In chickens these organisms include lice, ticks, bedbugs, mites, and fleas.
A story about chickens trying to cross the road has outrun the competition at this year's 500 Words contest. The judges felt Why Did the Chicken... was so finger lickin' good they made its author ...
Some need intermediate host to survive and they generally cause damage in the intestines of chickens and other types of birds. Members of these group include Ascarids, Capillaria, Heterakis and ...