Chickens for ticks?
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Chickens for ticks?
The only thing chicken gets rid of is hunger. Cant say Ive ever heard of the chicken trick though. I might have to open up the chicken coop this eve, see if they go hog-wild.
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Chickens for ticks?
I have come across the use of poultry in pest control in Eastern Europe. It worked very well on bugs and weeds. However, in the area I saw it used, there was a loss created by wolves, who ate the poultry.
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Chickens for ticks?
I have chickens, real live chickens, they run loose in the yard and I have noticed a great reduction in Grasshoppers and any other critters they can eat, Beetles, mice, anything that moves, anything that doesn't move. Now that I think about it I haven't found a tick on my dog in a long time. If you live in a rual area or have neighbors that have mulch and don't want it scattered all over the yard cause your chickens wanted to eat the termites, or your yard isn't fenced in don't get chickens.
Chickens can fly, not far and they don't like to.
Chickens are smarter that you think, some are smarter than others.
Chickens can fly, not far and they don't like to.
Chickens are smarter that you think, some are smarter than others.
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Chickens for ticks?
I have had two ducks. They really do eat ticks, fleas, ants, and all other ground bugs. It works great! All you have to do is keep their wing feathers plucked. Had it good till the dog ate them. Now you know why they evolved into flying birds..... cause they sure can't fight. LOL
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Chickens for ticks?
My uncle told me that they eat the ticks. Few others told me that too. I'm moving into a new house with 2 acres of mostly woods. I have two dogs that would be covered in ticks. The house already has a chicken coop so we're ready to go. I've just never heard this before.
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Chickens for ticks?
Guinea fowl are supposed to be much more effective at eating ticks; do a search on "guinea fowl" and ticks and you should find something.
All I know is that after we moved some guinea fowl into the hen house, the chickens stopped suffering from scaly leg mites.
All I know is that after we moved some guinea fowl into the hen house, the chickens stopped suffering from scaly leg mites.
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How noisy are they? Well, when they're agitated they make a clattering sound like dropping a drawer full of cutlery. Some farms used to keep them as barnyard watchdogs because of that. They don't do it for no reason at all, like roosters. The worst thing about them was that they wandered everywhere, and our neighbour didn't like it when they came into his dairy barn. You'd better have a big acreage or tolerant neighbours.
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Chickens for ticks?
I was visiting with a horse breeder recently. Noticed all the chickens running around asked why? Keeps the ticks at bay - off his horses.
Obviousily I asked how do you know. One of his chickens fell ill brought it to the UCONN vet school (takes horses seriousily did'nt want his horses to get whatever the chicken had). The technician (job title?) stopped counting at two hundred tics the chicken had gulped down.
Man thats a lot of tics. Having said that my back border is on the town of Lyme as in Lymes disease. There a problem around here with tics.
One of my dogs took a short cut across a marsh to a cookout - we pulled hundreds of ticks off the dog that evening. They were'nt sucking blood yet but ...
Chickens eat tics.
Obviousily I asked how do you know. One of his chickens fell ill brought it to the UCONN vet school (takes horses seriousily did'nt want his horses to get whatever the chicken had). The technician (job title?) stopped counting at two hundred tics the chicken had gulped down.
Man thats a lot of tics. Having said that my back border is on the town of Lyme as in Lymes disease. There a problem around here with tics.
One of my dogs took a short cut across a marsh to a cookout - we pulled hundreds of ticks off the dog that evening. They were'nt sucking blood yet but ...
Chickens eat tics.
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