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Have you considered keeping some tick predators (e.g. chickens)?
by nicoburns 3y ago
Have you considered keeping some tick predators (e.g. chickens)?
- kstrauser 3y agoAnd possums! When I learned 1) how utterly harmless possums are and 2) how voraciously they love to eat ticks, they became my favorite backyard visitors. If you find a possum in your yard, leave ‘em be and count yourself lucky.
- oblib 3y agoWe have possums here too, and they occasionally come up to our front porch to eat our dogs food. We also have a lot of deer here and they carry ticks that get huge on them, so they're spreading them around wherever they go. We're surrounded on 3 sides by Army Corp land that's forest and filled with critters that spread them around.
- kstrauser 3y agoThe deer are walking tick factories, aren't they? Yeah, with those around, it's going to be an eternal war.
- oblib 3y agoYeah we've had quite a few chickens over the years, but we also have a lot of raccoons and fox and coyotes other chicken eating predators here. Just a couple years ago I was cleaning our coop and heard the chickens squawking like crazy and I ran outside to see what was causing the commotion and there was a Golden Eagle that had one of our chickens in it claws trying to fly off. I'd never seen a Golden Eagle before and it is by far the biggest bird I've ever seen. They're huge! I yelled at it and waved my arms (trying to look big) and it finally let go and flew off.