So I guess I'll be checking the goats for ticks from now on.
Just wanted to post this to warn everyone who does have goats to check them regularly for ticks. I hope Olga will be ok.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Ticks!
This morning, on the way to the milk room with the does, I noticed Olga's rear end. It looked like there was something on her vulva. So when she got on the stanchion, I looked closer and saw a darn big huge grey tick. It was horrible. I got it off and washed with alcohol. Then I put some of my plantain slave all over the swollen area. I hope she'll be ok. I probably really need to shave her. She's got such long hair ticks think she's a dog.
So I guess I'll be checking the goats for ticks from now on.
Just wanted to post this to warn everyone who does have goats to check them regularly for ticks. I hope Olga will be ok.
So I guess I'll be checking the goats for ticks from now on.
Just wanted to post this to warn everyone who does have goats to check them regularly for ticks. I hope Olga will be ok.
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Ouch!
We have dog ticks in the pasture and the strange thing is they love us and the dogs, but I have never found one on the goats. I wish we could get guinea hens, but our neighbors would have a fit.
Kimberly
Maybe I need some for back here with the goats. It looks a lot better tonight.
The issues with the guinea hens is that they don't stay where they belong. They will run all over the neighborhood looking for bugs and grass seeds. They are big time foragers. They don't scratch the ground like chickens. People train them not to eat their strawberries by painting rocks red and scattering them in the garden. They are like alert dogs and roost high in a tree and alert to anything that they think is scary. People say they are VERY loud.
Kimberly
I have had them before. They are loud and crazy creatures! But I have to keep my chickens in the coop while the garden is growing so can't let them out to eat the bad bugs right now.
Did yours eat snakes? I had looked it up to see if they actually ate them, like people use as a selling point. It said that they do eat snakes, but its the baby size ones. Wondering if that's true.
Kimberly
They eat a lot of things. Never saw them eat a snake though. But my dogs will! They've gotten several that's been in my chicken coop. Tear them to pieces, those darn egg eating snakes.
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