Grizzlyhackle
True BYH Addict
Ticks are notorious hitchhikers. You brush against something in the yard, they jump on and travel with you. I find them in the house in summer.
I mentioned the mosquitos because it's pitiful seeing them constantly flicking their ears. Also I used to raise Bobwhites and there was talk of quail pox being spread by mosquitoes. I sold out 25 years ago. Nosey neighbors.
Chickens are cannibals. I saw 2 in the road fighting over the windpipe of one that got struck. I know commercial farms are way different than keeping a home flock. Perdue farms is headquartered in my hometown. Between the smell at the processing plant, the chicken houses, the manure spread on the fields. Neighbor lady when I was growing up would get a pickup load straight out of the chicken house from her brother in law. Still wet sometimes dead bodies in it. Pile it, not add anything to it then complain when it "burned up her garden". The mice, rats, snakes. The live haul trucks on the road. Get stuck behind one of them on a hot day.
Yeah I've had enough of chickens. Unless someone has a pot of dumplings
