California - Northern

[BCollie]

All my eggs have pipped or hatched except one Welsummer...and all 4 Trader Joe's eggs I'm really hoping they hatch.

 

[juststruttin]

Heebie Jeebies galore.... My son just found a tick in his eyebrow. Guess it's official.... it's tick season. Run for the hills!... oh wait.. don't do that!

 

[ronott1]

All my eggs have pipped or hatched except one Welsummer...and all 4 Trader Joe's eggs I'm really hoping they hatch.

Good Job!

Go trader Joes Eggs!

 

[liz9910]

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Oh my! That would be so gross lol

 

[debs_flock]

Heebie Jeebies galore.... My son just fond a tick in his eyebrow. Guess it's official.... it's tick season. Run for the hills!... oh wait.. don't do that!

I was sitting in bed one night and was absentmindedly scratching at a tickle on my shoulder and then realized I was scratching a bump. I got up and looked in the mirror and realized there was a tick on my back, attached of course but not yet engorged.

I flipped on every light in the room, grabbed a pair of tweezers and started poking my husband in the arm to wake up, yelling "there's a tick on me, there's a tick on me, get it OFF!!!"

I think he freaked out so much about me saying to make sure to get it all, he actually grabbed skin with the tweezers and pulled out a divot of ME along with the tick. It was in fact a deer tick, so my doctor put me on a course of antibiotics the next day (I saved the tick and brought it in to be looked at). Lyme disease is pretty rampant up here, too bad we can't be vaccinated like dogs.

I do a lot of traveling, including many tropical locations. If I ever came home with a bot fly, I think they'd have to put me under,

 

[juststruttin]

I was sitting in bed one night and was absentmindedly scratching at a tickle on my shoulder and then realized I was scratching a bump. I got up and looked in the mirror and realized there was a tick on my back, attached of course but not yet engorged.

I flipped on every light in the room, grabbed a pair of tweezers and started poking my husband in the arm to wake up, yelling "there's a tick on me, there's a tick on me, get it OFF!!!"

I think he freaked out so much about me saying to make sure to get it all, he actually grabbed skin with the tweezers and pulled out a divot of ME along with the tick. It was in fact a deer tick, so my doctor put me on a course of antibiotics the next day (I saved the tick and brought it in to be looked at). Lyme disease is pretty rampant up here, too bad we can't be vaccinated like dogs.

I do a lot of traveling, including many tropical locations. If I ever came home with a bot fly, I think they'd have to put me under,

Flash back. I forgot all about bot flies.

Where did all the bot flies go? When we were kids we used to scrape the botfly eggs off the horses legs with a razor blade. Now thinking about it, I have not seen a bot fly or egg in years. I guess worming horses every 8 weeks instead of tube worming twice a year has really wiped out the population. Thank goodness.

 

[SpringPeeper]

I am learning the hard way that integrating a flock is not easy. Especially with different breeds at different ages. They are getting used to each other slowly. Penny/Pete is still pushing the buffs around but in general nothing too over the top. Im sure when the newer birds are big enough they will become the new enemy. Im going to give the fosters some run time soon and see what the dels make of that.
6 buffs vs 4 dels.

Buffs seems to be easily pushed around, and easy targets for a hen trying to prove she is the boss bird. When we were still living in our last place with strict flock limits, we kept all but one BOs, and then "One Red To Rule Them All". She's smaller than her flockmates, obviously outnumbered, but has always been top bird.

Heebie Jeebies galore.... My son just found a tick in his eyebrow. Guess it's official.... it's tick season. Run for the hills!... oh wait.. don't do that!

*shudder*

 

[ronott1]

Flash back. I forgot all about bot flies.

Where did all the bot flies go? When we were kids we used to scrape the botfly eggs off the horses legs with a razor blade. Now thinking about it, I have not seen a bot fly or egg in years. I guess worming horses every 8 weeks instead of tube worming twice a year has really wiped out the population. Thank goodness.

There is a human bot fly....

 

[RenaG]

I was sitting in bed one night and was absentmindedly scratching at a tickle on my shoulder and then realized I was scratching a bump. I got up and looked in the mirror and realized there was a tick on my back, attached of course but not yet engorged.

I flipped on every light in the room, grabbed a pair of tweezers and started poking my husband in the arm to wake up, yelling "there's a tick on me, there's a tick on me, get it OFF!!!"

I think he freaked out so much about me saying to make sure to get it all, he actually grabbed skin with the tweezers and pulled out a divot of ME along with the tick. It was in fact a deer tick, so my doctor put me on a course of antibiotics the next day (I saved the tick and brought it in to be looked at). Lyme disease is pretty rampant up here, too bad we can't be vaccinated like dogs.

I do a lot of traveling, including many tropical locations. If I ever came home with a bot fly, I think they'd have to put me under,

I am not far from you in Cameron Park and we have already been watching for ticks. So far we have been lucky.

 

[liz9910]

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I remember those, always having to scrape the eggs of of the horse's legs ick.