Die, tick, die!!!!!

We treated the horses for ticks today. I used a product called Butox, which I got from the vet. His instuctions were to dilute it 60ml Butox to 240ml Water per horse and to sponge it all over. I expected it to be horrible stuff, and hopefully it is to ticks, but it was fine, easily applied and virtually no smell. Each application should protect them for about a month which is great. I've nothing against ticks really, although they are horrible, parasitic things, it's just that the disease piroplasmosis that they can pass on to horses is pretty nasty and can be fatal.
We've sectioned off the edge of our top field for a super duper playground for our chooks ( I know, we're completely mad) so Jim's put up a temporary fence to keep the horses out. This afternoon I took, first Remy and then Bonbon, a walk in there just as an exercise of taking them away from the others. They were both pretty chilled about it, Remy had a bit of a look at the new fence posts lying at the entrance, but came through ok and Bonbon was predictably unfazed by any of it. 
It's been forecast to storm tonight so the horses are in ( it was great, we didn't bring them in until gone eight as it was still light) but it seems pretty calm out there, you can't really trust the forecasts here. Now I've written this down I'll probably have to eat my words when the storm arrives later!!