Glen Cory

Wow ! Those are some really great ideas !
Now I just need to trim my cedars build some nesting boxes for opossums and talk the wife into some Guinea fowl.

Seriously those ideas seem do able in our present situation , without re-inventing the wheel so to speak.

And I think the bait and switch idea with the sheep and then the chickens is a great idea Mike. How do the sheep handle being tick bait ? And was that the original idea with having sheep? I don't know if I have enough grassy fields for sheep , kind of mixed hardwoods and invasive plants . I imagine goats would work the same in place of sheep as bait and a clearing mechanism ?

Thanks again everyone for these great ideas , I would love to see more of these great ideas.
There must be a way to fix this using what is already there , does anyone know how to attract opossums?

Hello again
Yes I have tried a great deal of very
Expensive treatments , including but not limited too D-earth in areas where they live or animals lay or live - which is very labor intensive on 5 acres of farm.
Beneficial nematodes to eat them, but they require moist ground conditions and the last 2 years in Rhode Island has been dryer than a pop- corn fart. So I have been unable to get them properly watered year after year.

The grass is short , the brush is turned into hugel mounds .

The 3 dozen chickens we have help , but we are surrounded by thousands of unmanaged  audobon and wildlife sanctuaries .

There must be a way short of a lightening strike or controlled fire , which are not      allowed in Rhode Island .

I don't care if it not part of our ethos , they are slowly killing us with Lyme      disesease and the thousand of co-infections that comes with the Lyme at the same time,
nothing keeps them at bay ,
I have had Lyme for over 2 years now and that my friends is LIVING HELL on earth!

And I don't want my family to get Lyme !

Sooo... Organic ,non organic , 5 acre plastic bubble for the farm .
There must be a way !

And to finish , I guess no one has used this treated cotton method of control?

Thanks to everyone and there responses , this is an invaluable site for the people of the planet , keep up the good work.

But watch out for those ticks , there coming for us all. Not even joking .

Hello ,
We live in rural Rhode Island . And the ticks are fiercer after every warm winter . With that in mind I was wondering if any one has used the pyrethrum treated mouse nesting cotton packages? The add for a local company says that the treated cotton is used by the mice to build there nest and the pyrethrum kills the ticks on the mouse which is a carrier of the ticks at that stage . If I understand correctly .
Has any one tried this ?
Any suggestions would be great, we have tried many things to no avail.