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In contrast, non-human animals (hereafter referred to as \u2018animals\u2019) that are traditionally farmed for their meat and other products have been largely overlooked as sentinel species. Community-dwelling farm sanctuary residents, such as cattle, pigs, horses, and other traditionally \u2018farmed\u2019 animals have close daily contact with human caregivers, making them excellent candidates for One Health surveillance. These animals, often free-range in pastures and\/or woodlands, bridging the territory inhabited by wildlife and that occupied by humans. This study collected 67 ticks, from bovines (n\u2009=\u200922), equines (n\u2009=\u200935) and canines (n\u2009=\u20096) residing in a farm animal sanctuary and screened them for microbes associated with tick borne illnesses using 16S rRNA V4 amplicon targeted sequencing (515F\/906R) with custom\n                    <jats:italic>Rickettsia buchneri<\/jats:italic>\n                    blocking primers to boost sensitivity. Only 60 ticks were viable for analysis, 59 were of\n                    <jats:italic>Ixodes<\/jats:italic>\n                    species and one was\n                    <jats:italic>Dermacentor variabilis.<\/jats:italic>\n                    Of these, 31.6% (n\u2009=\u200919) tested positive for potential pathogens, including 21.6% (n\u2009=\u200913) for the causative agent of Lyme disease (\n                    <jats:italic>Borrelia burgdorferi<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) and 15% (n\u2009=\u20099) for\n                    <jats:italic>Anaplasma phagocytophilum<\/jats:italic>\n                    , with a co-infection rate of five percent (n\u2009=\u20093). 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