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[microchick]

Last night when I found the dead hen I decided to take her back to the woods since she wasn't contagious and leave her for the wild life to take care of. We haven't mowed the trails yet. We usually do that in May and May was just a disaster month for us. The grass is knee high with some hip high areas but the only way to get to the lower 40 was to plow my way through it.

I got back and YIKES! TICKS! By the time I got finished I pulled 18 ticks off of me, all shapes and sizes. How do they do it? We had a hard winter here. Lots of ice and bitter cold and these little things are like cock roaches. Drop a nuke on them and they go on, business as usual.

Got up this morning and sprayed my clothes with Permethrin until they were damp and told my husband that if I started twitching or grew a leg out of my forehead blame the spray!

Ticks are horrible here this year.

 

[ronott1]

There is thread from a member that thread a needle sexing eggs said I will give it go .. Hatch yesterday's eggs thread sexing .. Why not right

And if they are about 50% correct, they will think it works!

Same thing with the egg shape myth that has a thread LOL! I remember a post that was something like: I increased from 55% correct to 60% correct so it must be working!

Nope!

 

[ronott1]

Last night when I found the dead hen I decided to take her back to the woods since she wasn't contagious and leave her for the wild life to take care of. We haven't mowed the trails yet. We usually do that in May and May was just a disaster month for us. The grass is knee high with some hip high areas but the only way to get to the lower 40 was to plow my way through it.

I got back and YIKES! TICKS! By the time I got finished I pulled 18 ticks off of me, all shapes and sizes. How do they do it? We had a hard winter here. Lots of ice and bitter cold and these little things are like cock roaches. Drop a nuke on them and they go on, business as usual.

Got up this morning and sprayed my clothes with Permethrin until they were damp and told my husband that if I started twitching or grew a leg out of my forehead blame the spray!

Ticks are horrible here this year.

I hope you do not catch a tick borne disease!

 

[CSolis]

Thanks everyone

@CSolis, the last thing I need is more chickens, LOL, but thanks for the offer, I have three hens that want to go broody on me. One has been in broody jail three times now and heading for the 4th. If I let them have their way I'd be knee deep in chicks right now.

but but...
Loooooooooooooook! Ain't they sweet?

This is my computer chick now 3 weeks old. Amazing colors.
And her 6 week old sister.

That's what I'm getting from Muffins my EE that don't lay blue eggses, and Graystoke the Bielefelder.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I took yesterdays eggs 8. According to the thread and needle there are 3 roos.. 5 pullets..
Put all of them in my small incubator 21 days will say if Smudge is doing his work right?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Last night when I found the dead hen I decided to take her back to the woods since she wasn't contagious and leave her for the wild life to take care of. We haven't mowed the trails yet. We usually do that in May and May was just a disaster month for us. The grass is knee high with some hip high areas but the only way to get to the lower 40 was to plow my way through it.

I got back and YIKES! TICKS! By the time I got finished I pulled 18 ticks off of me, all shapes and sizes. How do they do it? We had a hard winter here. Lots of ice and bitter cold and these little things are like cock roaches. Drop a nuke on them and they go on, business as usual.

Got up this morning and sprayed my clothes with Permethrin until they were damp and told my husband that if I started twitching or grew a leg out of my forehead blame the spray!

Ticks are horrible here this year.

Welcome to my world. I check the dogs every day, sometimes twice. I pull the ticks off and put them in a water bottle and put the cap back on.

 

[pennyJo1960]

There are some ticks here but in the mountains.
Never seen any here thankfully

 

[Beer can]

And if they are about 50% correct, they will think it works!

I was going to say I remember someone swearing by it, your prob right on the statistics though lol

 

[microchick]

I hope you do not catch a tick borne disease!

Been there done that already, Ron. I was diagnosed with probably Lyme disease in 2010. Had the Elisa Test ran and the one 'bar' that came back positive was the one that said I had been exposed to Lyme. I was having symptoms, which is why I was tested in the first place so they treated me as a positive.

Just one of those fun diagnosis that I can add to my resume, LOL.

But seriously, I keep Minocycline on hand and do a bolus if I find a tick biting me. If it embeds I have to do 10 days worth of treatment. I've had one bad relapse after I found a tick embedded in my back. Bullseye rash and the whole 9 yards so I take it seriously.

 

[microchick]

I was going to say I remember someone swearing by it, your prob right on the statistics though lol

I remember back in the 70s working OB scrub and checking a woman in. She was beaming and announced that she had done the dangling wedding ring fad of the day where a woman tied her wedding band to a piece of yarn and had her friend or husband dangle it over her belly. back and forth was a boy and circles meant a girl. She, she announced was going to have a boy!

Well she didn't she had a girl and I had told her that no matter what she had a 50/50 chance of it being correct. Sonograms were just being developed and used.

She had a girl.

So much for urban legends.