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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 it’s 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  

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 lime 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 all right it could be less  than one percent up to 50 so just because you get  

bit 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 three  

to five days for that tick to fill up blood that’s  an adult tick the younger tick it could be between  

two to three days and so if it hasn’t filled up  with blood good chance that uh 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 the crop and  

the crop is kind of a temporary storage place  which has friendly bacteria it has lactic acid  

so it starts the digestive process then it  goes to this thing called a true stomach and  

that’s where you have this very strong acid very  similar to a human stomach where the ph is between  

one and three okay actually 1.3 to 3.5 that  acid alone is going to start to destroy  

the tick or the insect okay plus it’s going  to activate a very powerful enzyme called  

pepsin which is going to start to dissolve this  protein shell around this tick and so it’s very  

unlikely that that tick’s going to survive the  stomach then after that it ends up in something  

called the gizzard which is another stomach  area where you have all these muscles and you  

also have grit which is like sand oyster shells  or little rocks that are going to act as teeth  

to start grinding down the food even further and  so that tick really has no chance of surviving uh  

these stages of a chicken’s digestion so if you’re  eating chicken and thinking you’re gonna get lime  

it’s not gonna happen hey before you go if  you’re benefiting from any of my content  

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