Actually.. years ago.. a big magazine.. (Time?)... can't remember which one right at the moment.. had a cover story about cows and Lyme.

Yes.. this is a big problem.

There are recent medical abstracts discussing evidence of Lyme in milk.

NOT a pretty picture.

My thought too is that perhaps Erhlichiosis might be involved?

Bad situation.

We live in a rural, forested area of northern Wisconsin. This area teems with wildlife as there's a huge woods right across the road.

I have bird feeders in my backyard, and the bluejays, and morning doves knock most of the seed out of the feeders onto the ground. This attracts squirrels, chippies, rabbits, etc., and turkey's !

Four turkey hens make my back yard a regular rendevous on their daily trek for food in winter. One day, one of the hens pecked and sauntered it's way to one of our basement windows.

Naturally, it saw it's reflection and went ballistic, as turkey's are very territorial and won't tolerate intruders on their turf. It pecked, and jumped at the window with it's talons for about 45 minutes, and then finally gave up.

We caught the whole thing on film. However, this daily occurence became less than amusing when they started showing up at 5 a.m. and rattled the whole house with their "window pecking" !

I had visions of a "wild" turkey thanksgiving dinner, [clean shot from the deck] but the rest of the family nixed this idea !

Finally, had to put a cloth covering on the window to deter that goofy bird from rolling me out of bed before the sun would rise.

When you say he "lost over 100 head of cattle.", do you mean they killed cattle because they had Lyme? I'd like to know more about this.

His theory has no merit. Michigan is loaded with Lyme.

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Originally posted by shy:
Love the moonstruck turkey story NP.I use to have a ton of them in my yard, as my house is in a woods, but soon after I got my springer pup I quit seeing them, go figure.

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LOL Shy. Once in a while we get a bald eagle that'll perch in our yard.

Them small critters head for the hills !

Wife came home one night shortly after our home was built, and her headlights flashed on a black bear by our mailbox !

Took me a week to convince her that we didn't have to move, and call all the realtor's to rescind the selling contracts !