A "Squatter," Ticks and New Life
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As I'm certain you know, your little possum squatter is a tick eater too. ❤ Yah bless y'all 💙🙏
Most definitely!
I just found your channel a couple weeks ago, right as you had discovered your soil was toxic. My heart broke with you. I am in awe of our Father's spirit giving you the strength to persevere through such a trial.
Our family keeps sabbath too (though differently) and I feel a kinship in your videos. They are a space of kindness and vulnerability. Good on you 😉
We now live on the Olympic Peninsula (the place I dreamed of living all my life, since I was a little girl). We lived in the foothills of the Ozarks before coming here. We also had a little homestead with a small garden in the forested mountains of the south. I must admit we do not miss the ticks, or the heat. And can you believe it? Blight on tomatoes is not a guaranteed part of gardening here. And here I thought blight was just something all tomato plants go through! 😂
What we never expected to miss however, are the sounds of the crickets singing and the cicadasinthe summer. Not to mention, those intense summer storms. Watching your videos reminds me of how merciful our Father has been all along our journey, and how merciful he continues to be for all of us, His children.
I'll be standing in prayer for healing in your body. For what it's worth, our Father radically healed my body from a severely disabling autoimmune disease. I went from being completely bedridden to flare-up free for over five yeas now. Following His biblical dietary instructions played a massive role in that healing, for what it's worth ❤😊
YHWH bless you and keep you.
YHWH make his face to shine on you,
and be gracious to you.
YHWH lift up His face toward you,
and grant you His peace.
As His name is upon you, so shall it be.
Shalom sister.
Shalom! Thank you so much, and welcome! Yes, I started eating biblically a few years ago and the Father showed me more and more of His word. Bless YHWH for your healing!
The PNW is a beautiful part of the country. It is funny, when we lived in Alaska, I very much missed the thunderstorms. I have always found them to be relaxing, and put me right to sleep (as long as there isn't a tornado risk with them 😉)
I guess we traded places! We moved from Western Washington to the Ozarks a few years ago!
The storms are pretty exciting here and more interesting than the near-constant drizzle if the PNW!
We love all the sunny days here, but do hate the ticks! (Please keep an eye on your Vitamin D levels so you stay healthy. )
We do miss the mountains, especially the Olympics and Rainier. Enjoy living your dream!
I lost 2 sets of adult Guineas…then I got Guinea eggs, put them under a broody hen, and she hatched out 12! The first few days, it was bedlam….they didn’t speak the same language…lol, but eventually they understood each other . I kept them away from the other chickens until the baby guineas were big enough to go outside. After they grew up, they started to fly up over the 5 foot fencing…..but they would all come back several times a day to drink, and back at night. It was amazing to watch them fly out all at once, and swoop back in the evening. They never left and my tick problem was solved for several years.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever isn’t the only thing that you can get from ticks. I live in Georgia and several years ago my husband started running a fever and having severe headaches. He woke up on Saturday morning asked to be taken to the hospital. Before the week was over he had been tested for everything under the sun, they found out that he was in kidney failure and he was in and out of ICU and CCU. He was having episodes of AFib. He had five medical specialists and a house doctor. I asked his surgeon if there was anyway that this could be a tick borne illness and after a short discussion they called in an infectious disease specialist. He tested positive for a tick bite from a tick that is normally found in Connecticut. To make a long story short it took six months for him to recover completely. His kidneys now function at 60% and there has been no further signs of AFib. He could only have one quart of liquid per day, everything that he ate had to be fresh, nothing processed and only water to drink. After seeing what he had to go through, I am very afraid of ticks.
Opossums are tick lovers. Welcome them. They are very beneficial.❤❤😊
Absolutely!!
They say they carry more ticks than they eat.they also carry diseases that other animals can get
Those chickens needed to fill needed by some chicks. So precious
Your “squatter” is completely adorable 😊
Awww that possum is so cute! They are great tick eaters too and they don’t get rabies! 😀😀😀
I had a lil grey hen that wanted to be a momma so bad, but her eggs were never good. So once I slipped a duck egg under her( now I wished I would have done more). But she had her hands full trying to communicate w the duckling over finding food and following her. But she was so happy and a good momma.❤❤ hens are amazing.😊
Years ago my mother, who grew up in Arkansas, would put powdered sulfur in a nylon sock and dust our legs or pant legs. When we used it we never got ticks or chiggers. If we were going camping she would go to the upwind side of the camp site and “pounce” that sock to let the dust drift over the ground - no ticks or chiggers.
The chick tale is so sweet and heartwarming!
I had a momma possum under my shed with about 6 babies. First time for me to see babies!
Awwww!😊
I recently learned that Pyrethrum is a tick deterrent. A fishing guide told me he has used Gold Bond powder with success.
Love the chicken story of broodies and their adopted babies! Our cochins have taken turns being broody, and we let one hatch out a couple chicks. I'd choose that over incubating and brooding chicks ourselves any day! When we need ro replace chickens and fill our coop up, I'd like to try and do it this natural route first if possible.
Taking sulfur is great for keeping ticks off of you. When you sweat you will smell like sulfur but you won't find any ticks on you. And they do come from trees sometimes. I've had my shirt covered by seed ticks befor and the only thing I had touched was a tree limb. Arkansas born and raised in the Ouachita foothills.
Good morning! I've done the "slip chicks under a broody hen" trick many times, and they've never failed me. I wait until the hen has been broody for at least a week, and slip them under her at night just as you did.
It's so nice not to have to worry about them staying warm, etc! God designed nature to do a much better job than we can.
Most definitely!
LOL "the traitors" I was Dx w/Chronic Persistent Lyme disease years after getting infected. It is a battle. Used meds for a few years until I learned all I could with herbs and nutrition. But, like tick deterrent, it is a constant need to be aware and diligent. The flairs we experience are what I consider, reminders to put our trust in the Lord, and continue to work hard as our bodies allow. I too, will not wear long sleeves, long pants, etc. When it is hot, even here in NH, it is hot and uncomfortable.
Loved seeing the chickens to the chicks. I'm still giggling about your traitor Guinea Hens
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Just found your channel. You are so calming. I need a bit of that these days. Will be back. Thank you for being you.
Thank you, and welcome!
cute bunnies ... lol lol sleeping beauty! That is so sweet, so glad Opal and Cupcake are happy with the chicks now! Ticks are bad ... I've had four bites already this spring, so very itchy. These were very tiny baby ticks. So sickness so far.
1st your sleeping possum is so sweet. awww. My silkies make the best moms! awww. I LOVE this video. Absolutely precious.
Hello from North Central Arkansas.
Yes, to answer your question, ticks are in the trees. We used to take our dogs to the lake for boating and having picnics. It was a job to check everyone afterwards for ticks and we were not near any bushes or anything else than trees and water. You also didn't mention it, but Mr. Possum is a good tick deterrent. They are supposed to eat ticks, so one could say that he is earning his keep. I haven't had tick problems this year so far, but when I was in the flower bed weeding, I was eaten up by the chiggers and other insects. Very itchy time until I could dry the spots out with calamine lotion. I guess they didn't like their home being disturbed, lol.
Chiggers LOVE me but I remember my grandmother putting me in a tub of bath water where she added three capfuls of bleach and made me stay in that water soaking all over for at least 10 minutes and it still kills them to this day 60 + years later. Thankfully there are none where I live now but when I go to my sisters I get covered so bleach bath it is! I skipped that last time as thought I didn’t want those chemicals on my skin, well after the next few days of misery I believe I’m back to believing my grandmother! And I had taken a normal shower when getting back home.
@@mamabird2434clear nail polish... Yes, everywhere you have bites.
@@randiD123 I did get doterra repellent blend and once they sniff it they are GONE! Love that stuff just a little dab will do ya don’t have to put all over I dob it a couple spots down each arm on each side of neck and a spot or two on legs if exposed and never get one bite!
I can't believe that the guineas survived anytime with all the predators out there.
Oh I know! But we hear them almost every day. My son saw them recently too.
they DO fall out of trees!
skorts are like kool locs back in my day lol very comfortable
I had culottes as a kid too! :D
Awwww that possum sleeping is so cute.
I live on a mountain and already gotten a few ticks off this month. My cousin who lived here came down with Lymes Disease. Doctors kept ignoring him and refused to test him. He got it so bad and broke out with hives and they claimed it was skin disease and gave him cream, which did nothing. His joints got to hurting so badly that it hurt to stand and he struggled to put his clothes on. Finally the doctors tested him and it was lymes disease. He has had several treatments but still struggles some. It forced him to retire early because he could not do his job.
When I was a kid, my sister got sick. She ran a fever, sore all over. They ended up removing her appendix, but she stayed sick. Turned out she had Rocky Mountain Fever.
I generally make my own bug spray up. I have yet to use it this year, but it is time. Between ticks and mosquitoes, you need something on.
Oh my goodness! That is awful. You know, your cousin's experience of being ignored or blown off about LD is very common. I've heard many stories like that, and my friend's daughter was nearly paralyzed before the doctors paid attention and figured out what was wrong. Did your sister fully recover? It amazes me when I hear about RMSF going undiagnosed, because it is said to be swiftly fatal!
@CosmopolitanCornbread My sister did. This happened in the early 70s. She was a teenager at the time it happened. As far as I know, she never had any more issues. She retired from the Navy - serving 20 years.
As for my cousin, when he was younger, he had lymes disease, but they caught it right away. They say once you get it, you will always have it in your system. He grew up here on the mountain. His family homesteaded. He was an active hunter and fisherman. I watched him going from someone who worked 8 hours mainly outside to coming home and working til dark time. Sometimes, we wore headlights to see to someone who was struggling so. It was upsetting to see doctors ignore him. I would have to help him get his shirts on due to not being able to lift his arms up. In wintertime, he wore a layer of 2 shirts and a hood for work. It has been a little over a year, and he still struggles to get around. He gave up hunting. He now has a small cabin near a lake that he stays at and fishes.
My daughter with Lyme finally got help through a Naturopath that was recommended by her Integrative Doctor.
Great video Constance! Loved seeing your opossum . I hear they eat ticks too. Blessings!
Then you got Giardia and got so sick you broke the blood vessels in your eyes!! Yikes! That possum looks so cute and cuddly, in Ohio they look like large rats. So sweet that you got chicks for your hens!! So nice! I saw a guy that wore sticky tape around his legs that collected the ticks.
Yes! That was awful! I was so miserable it brought me to tears, twice. It seemed to never end. Needless to say, I don't talk to the animals while I'm cleaning out water anymore. 😩
I had a tree come down last week during one of central Arkansas’s storms, and my son in law and I cut it up Saturday morning, and the branches were crawling with ticks! First time I had ever seen that! Needless to say, we double checked ourselves for the little buggers. I found one small one on my leg. I do have a spray, Repel, that I spray on my boots. You’re not supposed to spray your skin, just the outer ware. It does a great job. Now on to the mosquitos which are already bad because of lol the rain! Have a blessed rest of your week.
The baby chicks brought me so much joy! Love that both hens accepted them. ❤
I know geranium oil is a good tick repellent, probably in the blend.
It is!
I raised some guineas under a broody hen last year.
Heidi from Rain Country sent a lot of us over.
Welcome! She is so sweet :)
So cute seeing the hens with the chicks! New sub here! A few years ago, I had a bite on the back of my leg that ended up looking like a Bullseye. I got really sick and ran a fever and had trouble getting up to walk. I was put on an antibiotic, but don't remember what. It was pretty scary! I am sure it was some type of Lyme Disease.
Welcome! I hope you’ve fully recovered!
I used to dust my kids shoes and socks with sulfur to keep the ticks and fleas at bay and it always worked .
Thanks for the chat!
TY Constance for another informative video. My sickness took a good 9 months to get & that long if not longer to fix. I have severe chronic pain in my joints & muscles plus zi feel like I am carrying 25 pd weights. Along w/ severe insomnia. My poisoning is at a cellular level so my whole body is fighting off toxins. I see a functional Dr & he goes to the root cause of all these systems breaking down. I take around 30 supplements a day. If is frightening to me that my normal Dr that accepts insurance knows zero about an illness affecting millions everyday that causes autoimmune diseases & MS. & cancer. I am so glad your illness lasted only a month. Lyme disease is huge & the women that researched it found that the tick population became huge @ a time & around a lab. 🙏🙏🙏Blessing’s
I hate that you are suffering so much from this. Have you seen the book, "Bitten" by Kris Newby? I just heard about it the other day, and am adding it to my reading list.
@@CosmopolitanCornbread No I haven’t. I will definitely check this book out ty. 🙏🙏🙏Blessing’s
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@@inthekitchen8842 yes Plum Island. 🙏🙏
We are hatching out guineas if you want some in a month or two. We just had 7!
Have Lyme since 2009. I take Ledum and Apis(homeopathy) now after any bug bites. I have also given this to my horse and dog. Interestingly, my husband never gets bitten by bugs, and I was always the mosquito magnetic. His ph is way more alkaline and mine was more acidic. I have slowly changed my ph , now I rarely get bit by any bugs, and if i do I go right to my Homeopathy products. Just a thought...
Possums eat a lot of ticks. I had lime for three to four years before they finally figured out what was wrong and it changed my life and not for the good. I pray that people know you will not always see a bullseye or rash. Be careful out there and love your videos ❤
I'm now finally up in the Ozarks, too! Sooooo looking forward to hear your recommendations on these horrible ticks. other than the ticks, it's heavenly. Oh, my goodness! I shouldn't write this while watching! I just went and got fertilized eggs for my two broody girls who REFUSE to leave the nests. I got them from It's All Grady. 🙂 Oh, and I had a tick fall on me from the tree, so yes, they do fall from the trees. ugh... lol
Welcome to the Arkansas(?) Mountains! :) Yes those ticks are a menace!
@@CosmopolitanCornbread yep! North central 😊 we’re in a “holler” between two little mountains near White River. We have bats under our shed, and watched them fly over the pond at dusk. Feeding all the deer downs help with our tick problems… 😉 gonna keep being diligent. I can’t use deet because I’m allergic to it, so we do spray our clothes/shoes periodically with a permethrin spray. Whatever they say about mowing: nope. And my chickens definitely can’t find those seed ticks! 👀
The guineas are still working nearby to help with tick control.
We just did this with our broody turkey. Success so far.
Have you ever been checked for Lyme disease? My daughter has Lyme. It is awful and she almost died. She is slowly recovering and manages her chronic Lyme with diet and lots of natural remedies. Extreme joint pain, lack of sleep, seizures, migraines, chest pains, etc….
Hopefully you can find more relief over time!🙏🏻☺️❤️
Ticks are terrible! We have them here in Illinois everywhere. 🥹😬😩🤷🏼♀️no fun!!
Love the chicks story🐣🐥
Yah bless you, thanks for sharing the video!
Thank you, I have not.
Possums!! I love Possums…one lives under my deck and has for years. He never bothers me. Only see him if I’m out at dusk. But I don’t live on a farm/homestead.
Brother had RMSF last year and he was SICK, in a ball, for a week. And that man never lets sickness keep him down. His functional medicine docs treated him and he rebounded super fast.
Awwww, the girls just wanted to be mommy's ❤
Avon Skin So Soft bath oil is wonderful against the bugs....
I just love your channel
Thank you 😊
For me, I use yellow sulfur in a sock and powder puff me n all critters. My goats roam the woods... I powder every 3rd day, no ticks!
Spray with Listerine, the original brown kind. That is supposed to keep ticks away.
Here in Maine we have ticks that have Lymes disease. Very hard to diagnose and you never fully get rid of it.
May YAH Bless
Awww the best kind of squatter to have and very helpful.
You may 2 broodie hens happy.
Thanks you for this video! You have a lot of useful information and tips in this one. I sent it to my daughter, she lives in Alabama. She is just starting out on her mini farm, with chickens and a goat. 😅 she has been having trouble with one of her hens brooding, so I thought maybe the info will help. 😉
Thanks for info.
Thank you for the info on natural pest repellant. I have tried the ones with deet in the past and it makes my heart race. No deet for me.
New to this channel.
Wholesome and nourishing... thank you! ♡
Thank you, and welcome!
Your beautiful, that's why and you love nature... so I joined.
I wore jeans planting the other day so i can spray deet on jeans. I liked to died from heat and it wasnt that bad.
I enjoy your videos. 🙂
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing the details / symptoms of Rocky Mtn Spotted Fever. So sorry to hear you are still dealing with residual symptoms. Have you heard of the medical medium Anthony William's celery juice cure for Lyme's disease? I wonder if it might help kick the RMF issues for good? Prayers and blessings to you!
The ticks are horrendous this year in East Central Kansas. So far almost all are Lone Star ticks. I was changing my vehicle tag in a gravel driveway (no weeds) and a tick crawled across my old tag that I had set down while putting my new tag on. Oh he-double L-O
since you discovered your broody hens and the baby chicks are working out ok have you considered getting some baby guineas to slip under the two hens---they would theoretically grow up sticking around because the hens dont run off never to return...might contemplate the idea if only buy two or three to start with if it works then you can just keep adding a few at a time and soon you will have a nice flock of guineas that stick around and dont abandon you
I just looked up my idea online to see if anyone has tried it---feeling quite sure I am not so smart that I would be only person in the history of the world who ever had the same idea lol....low and behold people have done it with much success so I hope you will get either a few eggs or a few already hatched keets and I await your decision as well as the outcome....good luck
I actually thought about this! I will have to try and find someone here in Arkansas that breeds them, so that I could get some quickly when I have a broody.
I got tick fever and now I use deet always. I was running a 104 + fever thought I was going to die. I would rather risk the deet than getting sick again.
I thought that with the week long freeze this past winter, that ticks would be less present this year, but this isn't true. I really don't think the cold kills them. As for guineas, ours disappeared to the neighbor's house a few years back. They have definitely multiplied.
I don't have the legs for anything short. LOL So I try to keep things to my knees or beyond. I don't use deet either. Toxic garbage which I am sure makes a bunch of people sicker than they realize. I love Eden's Garden! That is the brand I buy.
😂 I believe ticks fall from our trees in Florida. ❤ will try this tip.
Constance, for what it’s worth, the more cedar trees you have, the more ticks uou’ll have 😩
Really!? I thought cedar repelled them! 😱
@@CosmopolitanCornbread I know that Cedarwood Oil works really well to repel ticks. It’s the active ingredient in the Wondercide Tick & Mosquito Spray that I use. But, now I’m curious about the cedar trees as well have lots of them on our property. Guess I’ll be looking into that.
@@CosmopolitanCornbread this is from plant 4 harvest: Cedar trees are a common habitat for ticks. They provide ticks with a place to hide and a source of food. Cedar trees produce a resin that is attractive to ticks. The resin contains chemicals that mimic the scent of human sweat and body odor. This attracts ticks to the trees, where they can wait for a host to pass by.
In addition to providing a place to hide and a source of food, cedar trees also provide ticks with a way to disperse. When a cedar tree sheds its needles, the ticks can attach themselves to the needles and be carried to new areas. This helps ticks to spread to new habitats and find new hosts.
The chemical is thujone 🥴
A calico possum. That's somewhat rare.
I was just wondering how my rooster would react to having baby chicks around if I let my broodie hen hatch out eggs. I may try this next spring. I live in the woods too and the ticks are always around, worst in the spring and fall. I tend to wear tight-legged capris and sandals around outside when it's warm. I can easily feel and see if something is trying to crawl up my leg. I have had a few ticks get on me that I couldn't figure out how, other than they must have blown out of tree or something. I know they can't fly, but they can crawl just about anywhere. I always apply organic bug spray when I go outside too, mostly for the black flies and mosquitos, but hopefully it helps keep the ticks off too. It has peppermint oil in it. And my husband does spray permethrin outside around the house and along the edge of the tree lines that are close to the house. He also puts out those cotton rolls that have the tick killer in it that mice will take back to their dens. It kills the ticks on the mice and prevents new ones from being born. Found those on Amazon. I don't go out in the woods during the warm weather though, if I can at all avoid it, because I know I will get ticks on me for sure if I do that, because my husband does when he's working the trees. I hate bugs so much, can't stand them on me.
I love possum
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Concerning joint pain: it's also possible with menopause.
There are so many different breeds of ducks, maybe you could find one that would meet with his approval?😁 Also, I love Eden’s Garden Oils!
I miss Alabama.....i know you do not. Hoping you are happy there.
Alabama will always have a place in my heart. But we are exactly where we are supposed to be :)
I love opossums! I would have a baby and raise it if possible. Their faces are so sweet. I know most will think I’m crazy.
Oh no, we agree whole heartedly! LOL Although this old one looked pretty rough.
That Possum will eat ticks & fleas, they don’t get rabies. I just hope he stays away from your fowls.
I have pulled 24 attached ticks off of me already this year. They are horrible this year. I usually only have 4 or 5 for the entire summer.
Yes, they are awful this year!
Get Guinea Hens for no other reason than to help with your tick problem.
I live in NW Arkansas. Contracted Alpha Gal from a tick bite about 4 years ago. Becoming more common. It sucks.
I know 2 people with that. Well, one who has it, and one who *had* it. She did for years until she had cancer and went through chemo/radiation and all that. Amazingly, her Alpha Gal vanished. She joked that it was one good thing that came from her cancer.
@@CosmopolitanCornbread I think I will just hope it goes away on its own. These tick-borne illnesses are no joke. Having to give up beef and pork and by-products,and for me most dairy,also…ugh. Limits the menu. But it could always be worse so I count my blessings. Thanks for all you do. Any lingering effects from the kick to the head last year?
@@wcorporon3736 Some. I should probably do an update on that too
try iver mectin for the rocky mt fever.
Now that's a thought...
Actually they do fall out of the trees. Fact❤
Ive seen tick tape and duct tape wrapped around ankles and lower legs sticky side out so ticks stick to it.
They DO Fall out of the trees.
I believe opossums eat tics. Is that true? Maybe he is a blessing. Good video. Very informative. Thanks.
I've heard this, too. I don't know for sure.
They do, but unfortunately, not enough to make ticks go extinct. :-)
They also eat every roach they can catch.
@theunknownknowsBYvoivod Wouldn't that be nice if they did?! LOL
"experts say" that ticks don't "fall" from trees onto you......except for the fact that wild turkeys and birds are major carriers/dustributors of ticks.....and where do birds land? In the trees of course.....and if a tick falls off of them while they are up in the trees.....but i guess simple logic is not logical 🤪
I will never use anything with deet in it. I had a bottle off OFF spray in the glove compartment of my car. It leaked and totally chewed up the inside and leaked outside on the dash. It looked termites had chewed on the dash. Totally ruined the dash board. What does it do to our skin?
Constance, what do you use for the cats and dogs for tick and flea control?
We do use commercial flea & tick preventative. I would rather use something natural, but I haven't seen anything that can match the Alabama or now Arkansas pest populations. For the dogs we used K9 Advantix II and for the cats we currently use Sentry Plus. In Alabama we used Bravecto Plus.
I hope you won't have a problem w Mr. Possum and your chickens. I have in the past.
Ticks sit on blades of grass and jump as something walks by. I have researched this, as I have a dog that picks them up frequently. Those pets are very intelligent. Ugh!
Doxycycline is soooo hard on the stomach! The ticks are awful but part of Arkansas for sure!
Yes, it was rough. I took probiotics to help my gut recover.
Do the natural tick repellents also work for mosquitoes?
Yes, it does
Squirrels. That is all I can say. Squirrels bring the ticks everywhere. That is probably why they fall out of the trees.
Oh I guess it’s not live? I commented & so did others but now it’s gone
I think this video was presented as a Premiere which allows for a live chat as the video plays.
Yes, there was a live chat along side the video as it played. :)
Animal mothers are so much better than human mothers. They will do anything to protect their young. Some human mothers seem determined to destroy their young.
ticks do fall out of the trees...most likely on purpose. Be careful....wear a hat and shield your neck
Have you ever been checked for Lyme disease? My daughter has Lyme. It is awful and she almost died. She is slowly recovering and manages her chronic Lyme with diet and lots of natural remedies. Extreme joint pain, lack of sleep, seizures, migraines, chest pains, etc….
Hopefully you can find more relief over time!🙏🏻☺️❤️
Ticks are terrible! We have them here in Illinois everywhere. 🥹😬😩🤷🏼♀️no fun!!
I have not. I may ask my doctor about it the next time I have labs done.
May YAH Bless