➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[itspebbl]

No recent pics of my babies.
My quail eggs are in transit!

No special reason for the poll...it's just because.

I suck at updates.

Thanks!! Woohoo about the quail eggs! We have hatched quail before

I think I'd just cut off my entire arm.
The arm would be gone.
Yes, I would regret this later but I just wouldn't be able to deal with having a fly INSIDE OF MY ARM .

I would freak out!

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

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Whoa!

 

[Glitterchicks]

Hair touched my arm... thought it was a botfly
Small itch on my neck... thought it was a botfly
A tree leaf touched me... THOUGHT IT WAS A FREAKING BOTFLY

 

[Molpet]

Hair touched my arm... thought it was a botfly
Small itch on my neck... thought it was a botfly
A tree leaf touched me... THOUGHT IT WAS A FREAKING BOTFLY

LOL
I am that way about ticks

I occasionally wake up in bed finding a tick crawling on me so for the rest of the summer I am a lite sleeper

 

[PirateGirl]

Due to the mite incident I feel the need to shower every time I so much as look at my coop!

 

[Glitterchicks]

LOL
I am that way about ticks

I occasionally wake up in bed finding a tick crawling on me so for the rest of the summer I am a lite sleeper

My husband thinks i'm a freak but I think it's normal. Lice at school, saw a spider, mosquitoes swarming outside, stories about botflies- I feel them all. How can you NOT?!

Edit because I realized you FIND them crawling on you, FOR REAL... you don't just feel phantom ticks. Omg, I would never sleep again!

 

[Glitterchicks]

Due to the mite incident I feel the need to shower every time I so much as look at my coop!

I checked all my chickens (ok, just my hens) for mites after your ordeal... totally paranoid!

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I see I have lots of catching up to do, but this is what I was up to last night. LOL

 

[PirateGirl]

I checked all my chickens (ok, just my hens) for mites after your ordeal... totally paranoid!

Haha. Parasites of any sort are so gross. Fortunately the Permetherin really works! It's a pain to deep clean the coop, but those suckers are dead in one treatment. I will repeat in a week to get any late hatchers, but all good so far.

 

[Molpet]

My husband thinks i'm a freak but I think it's normal. Lice at school, saw a spider, mosquitoes swarming outside, stories about botflies- I feel them all. How can you NOT?!

Edit because I realized you FIND them crawling on you, FOR REAL... you don't just feel phantom ticks. Omg, I would never sleep again!

After 60 yrs of ticks I don't freake too much, used to be I couldn't sleep If I found one outside on me

yeah most years I find maybe 2 ticks in bed and a half a dz I feel walking up my legs and maybe 1 or 2 a year attached... I do nightly tick checks before bed....So far this year I haven't had any...
the neighbors declared war on groundhogs and coons last winter so that may have helped... also the dog and I have been eating 6 eggs a day each.. the sulfur is supposed to help keep them away... the dog has been sleeping inside a lot and not out in the brush due to the heat/humidity, same with me... and the cat that would go out all day passed away. Just have an indoor cat.... no flea problem yet either.