Hi Guys,
I've been watching the emails on ticks and thought I'd share a piece
from a personal email I wrote to someone. The portion I've enclosed
might be beneficial to someone regarding ticks.
It's as follows:

I guess I shall keep a close watch on this. I'm not one to
give up going in the woods becasue of ticks and I usually do
watch for them and check upon leaving the woods & fields. I'm
a bird watcher as well as a boxer, and as I've grown older, I
realize life is so very short and one should get out there &
soak up the nature we have. BUT I also have shown positive
several times. Did the antibiotics each time for 12 weeks.
They're are 13 bands in the blood levels and a lyme free
person shows they sit at zero, A full 13 bands indicates
being very sick and I sit constantly at band level 4. I can
live with this but I am aware of trying to be careful and for
my dog as well.
The one thing my now retired doctor said was to get guinee
hens. Yeah, I laughed too! They eat ticks and prefer them to all
else. Two guinee hens can keep 1 acre plus of land tick free. So of
course I ran out that year and bought 12 guinee hens. I have over 8
acres
but they were able to roam around on 5 or so. The good news
is the doctor was right. I never picked ticks off myself or
the dog ( or the cats)for an entire summer. NOT ONE! Then the
wildlife,
(coyotes, fox, hawks, etc.) got my guinee hens one by one
until fall I had only one left and he soon beame a meal as
well. That worked so well, I am considering doing it again.
Maybe I should suggest that online w/LBNA. That might help
some folks. Thanks for your input. By the way, I had all
three shots from the doctor, within a three month+ period. We
(he & I ) did the first one, 30 days later did the 2nd one,
and the last one was suppose to be a year later as you said,
but we did it 2 months later. So I had all three shots within
3 1/2 monthsThis year the rats, mice, moles, ticks all
prevalant due to warm winter. We have many extra hawks so my
new hens won't last long.
I still wear light clothing and try to remember to pull my socks up
over my jeans. Deet is good, strong but good.
Always a struggle!
Always in the woods
jurneez and Vinnie the Dog

So....I realize many folks can't do guinee hens, and some don't want
the extra work, cleaning the hen houses and feeding the little guys,
but for some, those of you who try this, you'll be amazed at how well
it's works.
Good Luck....
jurneez