Even if you keep your birds in a pen (unless you have netting over the top), wild birds will swoop down to take some stray bits of chicken feed and leave lice and mites behind. Lice and mites feed ...

Backyard chickens harbor greater diversity of ticks, mites, and lice than farm-raised chickens. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 22, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 01 ...