LBRF is transmitted by the human body louse and usually occurs in refugee settings in developing parts of the world.

Borrelia miyamotoi disease occurs in the same places where Lyme disease is found and is transmitted by the blacklegged tick.

Acetobacter cant survive in the gut and so it cant out-compete the bad bacteria.

Probiotics are said to provide health benefits but these benefits are generally not well explained or understood.

The type of bacteria and the numbers of each type of bacteria varies from individual to individual and changes over time as the animal is exposed to new types of bacteria.

However, even seemingly healthy animals will have a some harmful bacteria such as e-coli, or salmonella in their guts.

However, the bad bacteria are in such small quantities that they cant do any harm.

The population of these bad bacteria are held in check by the good bacteria that out-compete them for resources and keep their numbers so low they cant make the animal sick.

If you give that chicken a probiotic that contains new strains of good bacteria, you might alter the population balance between various good bacteria strains in its gut, but not necessarily improve the chickens health.

Basically, you would be just swapping in a new good bacteria for an old good bacteria or increasing the level of one kind of good bacteria relative to other good bacteria in the chickens gut.

Therefore, we dont see much benefit in providing probiotics to healthy adult chickens.

Newborn chicks are more susceptible to having bad bacteria out-compete good bacteria if they are exposed to a potent source of bad bacteria.

C ontaminated food or water dishes are one possible source of bad bacteria.

Chick feed may also harbor bad bacteria if it has been contaminated by rodent droppings.

As mentioned earlier, a healthy adult will already have established its gut bacteria.

Backyard chickens in particular get plenty of exposure to healthy bacteria by snacking on yard plants and bugs, treats and table scraps.

The antibiotic will kill off the bacteria and it would also destroy beneficial bacteria in the chickens gut.

This would leave the door open to bad bacteria to take over the niche formally held non-harmful strains or bacteria.

Why Because antibiotics will also kill the good bacteria in the probiotic so provide the probiotics immediately after the last dose of antibiotics.

Most of these concoctions contain a relatively small variety of good bacteria including the following strains.

The advantage of this approach is that foods will contain many more beneficial strains of bacteria than the commercial products and you may already have them in your refrigerator so they cost you nothing.

If you provide cheese or yogurt do so in small quantities and only to adult chickens (not chicks).

The same applies to cheese; relatively unprocessed soft cheeses are best.

It differs in a very important respect from every other strain of bacteria mentioned so far in this article.

Acetobacter requires oxygen to live and there is no oxygen in the gut.

Bacterial Flushing For Gamefowl