TICKS!!!!

[Victor3Ranger1]

I seen a documentary about the tick's on moose and their calves. Adults can usually withstand a tick infestation but calves have a very difficult time dealing with the blood loss.
Years ago my taxidermist put a deer hide into the freezer for a month, pulled it out and anywhere that they crawled into a crease they were still living. It actually took 3 months to kill all of them!
As someone mentioned above clothing treated with sawyers permethrin is the best thing I have found. A 10 minute spin in the dryer on high will make quick work of dispatching the little disease carrying blood suckers.

Same thing with whitetail fawns.
I suspect fawn mortality is going to be pretty high this year

 

[338 dude]

Those are my favorite eggs to eat.
And the best egg fight eggs you can get
You just don't want to be on the receiving end of them

Yes, I would definitely not want to be on the receiving end. The eggshells are very thick and hard!

 

[Victor3Ranger1]

Yes, I would definitely not want to be on the receiving end. The eggshells are very thick and hard!

I missed hitting my brother with one and it literally bounced off the side of the barn

 

[Mark37082]

My daughter wanted to allow our laying hens to free range in our yard. She used the tactic of "they will keep ticks out of our yard". They probably did eat the ticks, but they were definitely not on top of the food chain. All were just a pile of feathers in fairly short order.

 

[338 dude]

My daughter wanted to allow our laying hens to free range in our yard. She used the tactic of "they will keep ticks out of our yard". They probably did eat the ticks, but they were definitely not on top of the food chain. All were just a pile of feathers in fairly short order.

Approximately 20 chickens and 11 Guinness free range my property every day I do lose one once in a while, but my 3 dogs are trained to kill anything in the yard that is not a chicken.

 

[338 dude]

Well Mark you have all the off-season hunting You could desire right there in your yard! you need to get after whatever is killing them!

 

[birddog 68]

My daughter wanted to allow our laying hens to free range in our yard. She used the tactic of "they will keep ticks out of our yard". They probably did eat the ticks, but they were definitely not on top of the food chain. All were just a pile of feathers in fairly short order.

People that I know that have chickens say hawks are usually to blame during daylight hours.

 

[338 dude]

People that I know that have chickens say hawks are usually to blame during daylight hours.

I have a 16 foot pole over my coop with a foothold trap on top of it that takes care of hawks and owls!

 

[3chester]

Used to watch quail hen and chicks walking across a new field picking up every bug that moved, just like Mother Nature intended. ThinkN Monsanto boys put an end to those days, years ago.

 

[Mark37082]

I've got to get a thermal scope and quit going to bed so early. Game cameras show we have every chicken eating critter in abundance, but they only show themselves at dark thirty.

 

[338 dude]

I've got to get a thermal scope and quit going to bed so early. Game cameras show we have every chicken eating critter in abundance, but they only show themselves at dark thirty.

Yes, sir, you do!

 

[Victor3Ranger1]

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Very good
When I had the wolf on the trolley along the creek I never had problems with anything, no coons, yotes, possums ect.
After he passed things changed

 

[M1A1ABRAMS]

Yes, sir, you do!View attachment 581187

What was the thermal you had mounted to your firearm that sold for around a grand you posted on a previous thread ?

 

[338 dude]

What was the thermal you had mounted to your firearm that sold for around a grand you posted on a previous thread ?

AGM rattler TS 19 it is the same one in this thread that I pictured. I have it on a QD mount. It holds zero very well.