Tiny Deer Ticks

[hayley3]

They way I understood it was you spray the inside of the tube with permethrin and just let them run through it and it kills the tick larva on them, they don't need to take anything from the tube to get treated. We have bad deer ticks and lymes disease where I live, but once we got chickens and started letting them free range, I haven't found one from my own property for at least two years, used to be that we would find a handful of them on us and the dogs everyday during the summer. I've definitely never found one on one of our hens. But, to be honest, I'm not really looking.

I lived inside the Hoosier National Forest and my chickens were not enough evidently.
The mice are supposed to carry the cotton balls (that are sprayed or soaked in permethrin) back to their nest and the permethrin is then transferred to their little bodies as they move the balls of cotton around inside their home.

 

[Chold05]

I’m having the same problem! The ticks are the size of a grain of pepper! I’ve never seen them so small! makes them very hard to detect.
We have 5 acres (3 of which is all open yard) surrounded by some woods. We only have 6 hens and we let them free range (mostly supervised.) but the love to poke around the wood lines for berries and bugs. My poor barred Cochin had a tick last week. I only noticed because of her eye swelling. We’ve been treating that for a couple days and found two more on the other side of her face today! Also found one one our ISA brown- Dixie today, too.
I’ve been reading all night about how to treat for them... we keep the lawn short. And I ordered some natural soap with tea tree oil and eucalyptus I’m planning to spray around the wood line/run. Praying it helps! please keep us posted if you find a solution! I hope your girls are tick free soon!

 

[sunnie7]

I lived inside the Hoosier National Forest and my chickens were not enough evidently.
The mice are supposed to carry the cotton balls (that are sprayed or soaked in permethrin) back to their nest and the permethrin is then transferred to their little bodies as they move the balls of cotton around inside their home.

what part of Indiana are you in?! I’m in Henryville right in the middle of Clark state forest and our ticks are horrible! I haven’t found them on my chickens but DH has RMSF from a tick bite about 2 years ago when we were building our house. Last year I got guineas!

 

[Folly's place]

More ticks are moving into more areas all the time! Be careful, learn how to safely remove them, and do that 'tick search' on yourself and your pets daily!
Ixodes ticks, especially their early forms, are so tiny!
Mary