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Poultry keeping has gone through an enormous development in the past years. It has now become one of the most intensive of all branches of livestock farming. With changes in breeding, important changes in the parasitic fauna have occurred simultaneously. Nowadays nematodes, once very common in poultry, have disappeared almost entirely on farms using modern methods of poulty management. However, many domestic birds are still kept in the old-fashioned way, and there is a high chance that they will be infected with nematodes.