POW! The tick virus far deadlier than Lyme

WND ^ | 5/08/17 | CDC or WND???

[Augie]

I’m not sure how many ticks four hens will catch.

I have four dozen or so and I make them forage when the weather is warm. When there’s nothing much outdoors for them to eat I give them all of the pellets and corn chops they can eat. When things turn green outside I cut way back on their rations.

[huldah1776]

lyme disease sucks. Hope you got the antibiotic for it but why give a vaccine when the dog already had the disease? Why get a rabies shot every year? Are there that many types of rabies? Just wondering.

[blueyon]

“””A Lyme sufferer told me that guinea hens eat ticks. I wonder if chickens do.”””

YES chickens do eat ticks........Live in a tick infested area and had at 1 time up to 45 pet chickens free range on 2 acres................they keep the tick population down!!! But the chickens ended up being nice snacks for the hawks and snakes :(

[Little Bill]

What about wild turkeys? I had a flock of them in my front yard eating any thing insect.

To judge from the prints they visit regularly fattening up from the winter fast.

[rmlew]

Just antibiotics and anti-inflammatories now. (This is a problem for me because, I suffer from migraines and used to basically be addicted to Excedrin and Advil, which caused rebound headaches.) I'm also doing acupuncture and swimming. Beyond that there are DMARDs (Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs) such as Methotrexate, and a glucocorticoid, but that comes after I'm disease free. At least my heart doesn't seem to be damaged by this, although losing some weight would be useful for everything.
At any rate, take ticks seriously.

[FrogMom]

“I swear they jump out of trees on you if you walk under a limb.”

That’s exactly what they do.