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Post by naturelovr on May 8, 2011 5:26:27 GMT -6
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Post by beenatural101 on Jun 18, 2011 7:45:32 GMT -6
For any of us like me, who really don't like hosing yourselves down with deet... Just two guinea fowl will keep an acre around your house tick free. Won.t help if you spend all your time in the woods, but it will help the littluns playin out in the yard tick free....
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Post by buzzard on Jun 18, 2011 13:23:10 GMT -6
Interesting beennatural, thanks!
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Post by olhillbilly on Jun 19, 2011 2:35:22 GMT -6
I'd havta convince the foxes and the coyotes that guinea are not on the menu.
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Post by buzzard on Jun 19, 2011 16:54:01 GMT -6
Welllll, you could put spiked collars and such on em. ;-)
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Post by beenatural101 on Jun 22, 2011 12:36:56 GMT -6
We have to keep getting birds, the local critters just think they are the tastiest thing. We got some old ones that do a fair job teachin the younger ones, but we still lose a good many
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Post by tentfire on Jul 8, 2011 1:44:50 GMT -6
I've lost a lot of feathered friends lately to coons. Last week they got my 10-year old goose. And I was really attached to him  , he had a great personality, he thought he was a person. They have wiped out many of my chickens, too (which were keeping my tick population down to near nothing). I keep trying to trap them, but that one is a Monster Coon! I don't think it would ever fit into the trap. I had no idea coons could get that big. It would scare most dogs! |
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Post by tentfire on Jul 8, 2011 1:45:53 GMT -6
I like the spiked collar idea.
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Post by papa on Jul 10, 2011 8:31:40 GMT -6
Bang and no more giant coon, course you may have to turn to day sleeping in order to stay up and do him inl.
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Post by rick brumback on Jul 10, 2011 13:04:49 GMT -6
If we say dont bug me to someone bothering you,what do bugs say if they are getting bothered?
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Post by tentfire on Jul 22, 2011 22:59:21 GMT -6
Richard,  Papa, if I had a gun, that is exactly what I would do. Never thought I would see the day I wanted to kill a cute coon. But I want that coon gone! Everything is so desperate for food and water right now in this drought and heat, that they are even coming out in the daytime! One I had trapped as a baby and made into a pet. It escaped after awhile so now isn't the slightest bit scared of me. Probably not a good thing. I had a moderate case of tick fever several weeks ago, at the same time I was sick from 4 spider bites (one probable fiddle back got ahold of my back while I was sleeping). It was no fun. I slept a lot. The meds for it all made me just about as sick, but all better, now, finally. Just tire easily. Bathing with lye soap helps keep the ticks off of you, too. One thing the drought has done was thin the ticks out to almost none. Now, if it would just do the same for the fleas. |
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