Wood ticks.

We have free ranging guineas and chickens and plenty of ticks. We usually get one to two on us everyday after our 2 mile evening hike. There would probably be more without the fowl but they certainly don't get them all.

Ticks have been on the increase pretty much nationwide evidently. I think most of the increase is due to the expanding deer population basically everywhere.

And populations of ticks, animals, people and everything else is a dynamic situation that evolves over time. Just like the climate it is ever changing and always has--and always will. Just saw a report yesterday to prepare for catastrophic global cooling!! There is no certainty about the climate except that it will change and sometimes rapidly. There is nothing we can do about it except adapt. I haven't seen any wooly mammoths on our place recently but they used to live around about 10-12 thousand years ago. The native American's SUVs killed them off. TnTnTn