New (old) way to control ticks

[Skinny rooster]

We have always had ticks and I'm further north than all of you, this is Bush county however. No farmers around here use pesticides and most never use herbicides, it mostly cow/calf and some organic vegetable farms so they certainly don't use chemicals. We always had ticks around but it only seemed to be every few years and mostly the barn cats got them and sometimes the dogs but I never remember any ever going after people. Plus you never got them or saw them unless you were deep, deep in the forest, now people get them from lawns in the city. Maybe climate change I don't know. I am hoping it's because last summer was really really wet. As have many of the past summers in the last ten years.

As for Kathy, seriously I have told you over and over, please stop confusing me with facts!

[41714049]

Anybody ever heard anything about if Guinea x Chicken Hybrids hunt ticks? LOL I just came across them in my research.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Guin ... ybrid.html

[baronrenfrew]

funky hybrids can happen, but they're not common

[41714049]

funky hybrids can happen, but they're not common

Agreed, was just curious what behavioral traits they would maintain from each parent... for tick eating aspect of things... There were recordings and seem to sound like a chatty chicken... mostly.

[Killerbunny]

Cute little things!