The tick is a blood sucking insect. Ticks (Ixodida) are arachnids, typically 3 to 5 mm long, part of the super order Parasit forms. Along with mites, they constitute the subclass Acari. Ticks are external parasites, living by feeding on the blood of mammals, birds, and sometimes reptiles and amphibians. Ticks evolved by the Cretaceous period, the most common form of fossilization being amber immersion. Ticks are widely distributed around the world, especially in warm, humid climates.
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A new tick elimination method is increasing in popularity, and it is one that may surprise you: chickens.
There has been one scientific study that has assessed the effectiveness of chickens in reducing tick populations, in tick elimination ,which was conducted in the nineties in South Africa. Chickens in the study were allowed to scavenge for three hours among tick-infested cattle, and researchers found that during this time the chickens ingested an average of nearly thirty ticks per bird. This confirmed that chickens are natural predators of livestock ticks and can we depend on it for ticks elimination.
Ticks what are they?
Almost all ticks belong to one of two major families, the Ixodidae or hard ticks, and the Argasidae or soft ticks. Adults have ovoid or pear-shaped bodies, which become engorged with blood when they feed, and eight legs. In addition to having a hard shield on their dorsal surfaces, hard ticks have a beak-like structure at the front containing the mouth parts, whereas soft ticks have their mouth parts on the underside of their bodies. Both families locate a potential host by odor or from changes in the environment.
Tick life cycle
- The life cycle of a tick is incomplete, as it includes one larval phase and one mermaid phase. It is necessary to have a blood meal until the ovary matures and the female can lay eggs.
- Young female ticks remain intrusive on their families for a long period of up to four weeks, after obtaining a large amount of blood falling to the ground searching for a suitable place for it under the leaves of plants or on stones or between the surface roots of herbs and others bury themselves in the topsoil. Female lay eggs after about 3-6 days after the fall of the host, this time may be longer than more than several weeks and may reach a few months, depending on the temperature and type.
- A female tick lays 1,000-8,000 spherical eggs in a gelatinous mass that forms in the front and on top of the thyroid, sometimes the mass of eggs is larger than the laying female, the laying period takes from 10 days to 5 weeks or more.
- The tick possesses an organ called a gene organ, and this organ is an enlarged base and two short horns, and during the emergence of the egg the lining of the vagina dangles through the genital opening carrying the egg where it is placed between the two horns of a gene, then the lining of the drooping vagina is withdrawn, and in this way the gene member helps in the transfer of eggs From the reproductive hole to the thyroma over the withered female body, the female lays one egg mass and then dies.
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- The eggs hatch after about two to 3 weeks and sometimes the length of the period extends to several months, the eggs hatch from minute hexagonal larvae about 0.5 – 1.5 mm in length, and they are called a seed tick, the tick larvae are similar in shape to dream larvae except they contain parts (under the mouth).
- The larva remains inactive after its departure for a few days, after which it becomes very active, crawling on the ground, and gathering at the tops of weeds and leaves, waiting for the passage of the appropriate host, the Huller member helps her in the search for her family, and the larva’s behavior in the search for the family is called questing (tracking) Nymphs and adolescents are the same method to search for their families), when finding the appropriate host, the larvae crawl to the appropriate position of the host to begin feeding, usually the ears or eyelids, so the larva implanted the canine horns and under the mouth deep into the tissues of the host and begins feeding on the blood, the larvae remain on the host From 3-7 days and then fall to the ground, looking for a refuge between herbs and greenery or between stones, the larva takes 2-7 days to digest the blood meal, and it may arrive for several weeks in cold conditions.
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- After the blood meal is digested, the larvae remain inactive for a few days before they break into the mesophageal phase. Dissociation results in a nymph that climbs greenery and begins the process of exploring the appropriate host. When the host is found, the nymph itself hangs in the appropriate position and begins feeding, after about 5-10 days the nymphs full of blood fall to the ground.
- The nymph needs about 3-4 weeks to digest the blood meal, during which it remains static. The tick passes only one nymph phase, after dissection, gives the young tick.
- The newly formed young tick remains inactive for about a week, then climbs greenery to begin the prospecting process for a suitable host. An adult female tick feeds large amounts of blood.
- An adult female stays on her family for a period of one week and may reach 4 weeks, male ticks feed on less blood compared to the female, and the family remains for long periods in search of its female for mating and a new cycle of life begins.
Types of ticks:
- The parasitic ticks insect feed on the 8-legged insects, its outside shape is like an oval .
it can put the egg about 18000 eggs in one-time and it place the eggs on the leaves of the trees – the forest – parks or in the waste land, it’s also active in the spring and summer . - Ticks microscopic insect does not see with the naked eye, and there are more than 400 species of ticks, such as:
Chicken ticks – ticks cow – dog ticks – ticks sheep .
Damage of ticks:
Ticks are dangerous as they are an important source for the transfer of serious diseases from one object to another, if it bite human or absorption the blood, it may cause the transfer of many diseases, and therefore advised to wash the sting spot befor going to the doctor .
Symptoms of infection :
Vomiting – diarrhea – multiple failures for all members of the body.
How to Use Chickens Effectively to eliminate ticks ?
According to an informal 2015 study by Mother Earth News, 71% households faced a problem with ticks before they had chickens, 78% of them managed to control and eliminate the blood-sucking insects when they started keeping poultry, and 46 percent of them experienced a reduction of tick populations within a month after getting poultry.
Before you get chickens of your own for your backyard, it is important that you think about what type of chickens you are going to get, as well as how to ensure they are as effective as possible.
Many respondents in the Mother Earth News survey noted that small bantam chickens and game hens were the most effective at controlling the tick population because their size allowed them to get into tighter spaces where larger birds can’t fit .
Where you allow your chickens to roam is important, too. Ticks love humidity and tend to stay just above the soil surface, in tall grasses, or under leaf litter and ground cover, so you should make sure that you have your chickens forage in areas. This is particularly important in the early spring because these are the areas where ticks and their larvae will hide during the winter months, and chickens will happily make short work of picking through leaves for a meal
Other ways For Ticks elimination …
Ticks control in Abu Dhabi | how to get rid of ticks?
There are often ticks in all kinds of animals like dogs – sheep – and other cats .
– First we must examine the existing animals in the house or barn so to make sure that any of the infected animals .
– Spray all the animals inside the house or in the barn and the bed nets .
– Keep the house clean and sanitize it from insects .
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