California - Northern

[Kaylish]

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!

Yuk!

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,

Radom fact: Bluebelly lizards blood carries an enzyme that actually kills the Lyme germ in ticks that feed on the lizards when they are little. Studies are showing in areas with Bluebellys the percentage of ticks carring Lyme is about 5 % of the population; vs. 50%+ in areas without the lizards.

 

[caychris]

Yuk!

Radom fact: Bluebelly lizards blood carries an enzyme that actually kills the Lyme germ in ticks that feed on the lizards when they are little. Studies are showing in areas with Bluebellys the percentage of ticks carring Lyme is about 5 % of the population; vs. 50%+ in areas without the lizards.

Not that I have seen any ticks in my area but plenty of Blue Bellys

 

[liz9910]

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That is really interesting! Another reason to love blue belly lizards.

 

[Kaylish]

Not that I have seen any ticks in my area but plenty of Blue Bellys

Quote: I've got TONS of them at my place; I love watching them show off on top of the raised garden beds. And when my chickens actually manage to dig one out its madness! They will chase eachother all over trying to steal it. It doesn't happen very often but it's sure funny.

 

[tommysgirl]

@capayvalleychick and @sewandgrow Do you see anything feminine here other than the full grown hens that is. Those little combs sprouted and pinked up over night.













Oh and here is Stella her "whiskers" are growing in

 

[liz9910]

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Strangely enough, there are no bluebellies around my house in Modesto. Only lizard I've ever found are those ones that look like a snake with legs (yuck) or this little gecko that shows up every year. My dad lives in Ripon which isn't far from me and his house is over run with them.

 

[Happy Chooks]

@capayvalleychick and @sewandgrow Do you see anything feminine here other than the full grown hens that is. Those little combs sprouted and pinked up over night.













Oh and here is Stella her "whiskers" are growing in

You weren't asking me, but both look like cockerels.

 

[tommysgirl]

You weren't asking me, but both look like cockerels.

That's what I think too. The other two are not even remotely noticeably different. Oh well....They will be tastey.

 

[BCollie]

3 Welsummers hatched, still waiting on all 4 Trader Joe's eggs and one Marans. Any ideas as to why the TJ's all haven't so much as pipped?

 

[ronott1]

3 Welsummers hatched, still waiting on all 4 Trader Joe's eggs and one Marans. Any ideas as to why the TJ's all haven't so much as pipped?

It could be the age of the eggs. Age adds time to the hatch, something like 1 hour per day.