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    A small flock of Guinea hens eat thousands of ticks a day

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    Post  mudra Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:26 pm

    A small flock of Guinea hens eat thousands of ticks a day Ffd53810

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    Looking for a new pet that will keep your yard completely free of ticks, fleas and mosquitos AND lay eggs for you?

    A guinea hen might be just your gal.

    A 2009 study found opossums might be our best defense against Lyme disease, as the rodents eat over 5500 ticks per week each.

    Since then, word is getting out that many popular backyard birds are also excellent tick hunters, including chickens, ducks, turkeys, and perhaps none greater than guinea fowl.

    These birds haven’t been formally studied for their tick-control talents like rodents have, but colloquially they are known as tick-eating machines” or “tick vacuums.”

    And Mother Earth News conducted an informal study in 2015 that found guinea fowl and/or chickens virtually eliminated ticks from 80% of the tick-infested yards they were deployed in within a few months.

    Farmers estimate a small flock of guinea hens can kill 4000-5000 ticks a day.

    “We originally got five of them for tick control because my 82-year-old dad said it would work,” Robin Bucking of
    Waynesville, North Carolina told Mother Earth News.

    “Within six weeks we stopped seeing ticks. The fleas disappeared within a year; our three cats never need any form of flea control.”

    Susan Jarrett of Dover, Arkansas told the magazine her 25-acre tick-infested pasture was tick-free within a year or so of raising a small flock of baby guineas.

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    https://returntonow.net/2021/07/28/a-small-flock-of-guinea-hens-eat-thousands-of-ticks-per-day/  

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    Post  THEeXchanger Thu Sep 02, 2021 9:46 pm

    fascinating !!!

    also we have an animal in canada

    an opposum ? 
    and, it eats ticks too

    READ ARTICLE on link below title 
    Opossums - killers of ticks (caryinstitute.org)
    https://www.caryinstitute.org/news-insights/media-coverage/opossums-killers-ticks

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    Post  mudra Fri Sep 03, 2021 1:20 am

    Cute one 😊

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