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Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6822436
03/29/20 09:58 PM
03/29/20 09:58 PM
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I have been picking them of the cats all winter.


Let's go Brandon

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Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6822437
03/29/20 09:58 PM
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I keep my dog on them year around


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Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6822459
03/29/20 10:13 PM
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Get some chickens and let em roam around the farm. For you poor unfortunates who don’t live on a farm, you can do the same.

Chickens are omnivores and healthy, happy chickens ideally spend their day foraging for bugs. ... In the study, a flock of chickens was allowed to free range in a tick infested cattle field for 30-60 minutes. It was found that each chicken ingested anywhere from 3-331 ticks, with the average chicken eating over 80 ticks!

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6822551
03/29/20 11:43 PM
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Picked 2 off the dog yesterday


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Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: tomahawker] #6822554
03/29/20 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by tomahawker
Get some chickens and let em roam around the farm. For you poor unfortunates who don’t live on a farm, you can do the same.

Chickens are omnivores and healthy, happy chickens ideally spend their day foraging for bugs. ... In the study, a flock of chickens was allowed to free range in a tick infested cattle field for 30-60 minutes. It was found that each chicken ingested anywhere from 3-331 ticks, with the average chicken eating over 80 ticks!



You are spot on. At my old house I killed 120 ticks on the front porch in about an hour. The dog and cats hung out there and they brought them up. I couldn't change the oil in the drive without getting 3 ticks.

We ended up with way to many chickens ( over 50) for our few acres. Within a short time it was rare to get a tick anywhere around the place. They flat out wiped the ticks out.

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: wamp] #6822662
03/30/20 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Lugnut
Just gave my dog his monthly flea and tick pill (Credelio). That's his first one since last November.


Originally Posted by wamp
I keep my dog on them year around


I've noticed that I get more than the advertised thirty days protection out of the Credelio pills, more like six weeks. So that would have put us into mid-December and , to me, they are not necessary at that time of year. He's an inside dog and I interact with him every day so I'd know if he was having a flea or tick problem.

The pill I just gave him was a precaution. He doesn't have any fleas or ticks but that season is here now.

I look at it this way, I saved $150.00+ by taking him off the pill the last five months.


Eh...wot?

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: tomahawker] #6822666
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Originally Posted by tomahawker
Get some chickens and let em roam around the farm. For you poor unfortunates who don’t live on a farm, you can do the same.

Chickens are omnivores and healthy, happy chickens ideally spend their day foraging for bugs. ... In the study, a flock of chickens was allowed to free range in a tick infested cattle field for 30-60 minutes. It was found that each chicken ingested anywhere from 3-331 ticks, with the average chicken eating over 80 ticks!


Agree!

Chickens are very effective bug control and very happy when they are doing it.


Eh...wot?

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6822707
03/30/20 08:26 AM
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Trapstickan hates it when he gets one in the middle of his back and he can't reach it. They can get really big before they fall off.

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Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6822754
03/30/20 09:18 AM
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MnMan I can see the arthritis is already showing up in your joints.

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6822842
03/30/20 10:19 AM
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I've also heard that Purple Grackles are one of the few wild birds that eat ticks too.


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Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6822927
03/30/20 11:25 AM
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Had Lyme 5 times so far
Sign of the times

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6822959
03/30/20 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Trapper7
I've also heard that Purple Grackles are one of the few wild birds that eat ticks too.


the unfortunate part is they are a large dispersal of the nymphs and larvae across this country.

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6823758
03/30/20 10:06 PM
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lugnut my dog is in the fur shed with me and with coyotes having ticks some times its better to have them on the pill all the time.
She is also a house dog and any time I find a tick on her it is dead


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Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6823792
03/30/20 10:26 PM
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Good point, makes sense.

My labs never liked hanging in the fur shed with me. They will hang out in the wood shop and anywhere else but not the fur shed.


Eh...wot?

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6823825
03/30/20 10:45 PM
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Got bit Saturday.
Got the drugs today.
Benn here, had lymes,
1 thing I sense, Docs don't agree or understand, er something.
Winter temps mean nothing to the ones that live on hosts.

Good info in this post.





Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Wright Brothers] #6823915
03/30/20 11:44 PM
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We never had wood or deer ticks in our area 20 years ago. Has anyone ever seen any study about why the ticks are advancing south? I used to hike our Ice Age Trail every April in north central WI. I typically wore a throw away white suit when I did this and sometimes there would be 10-20 ticks crawling on the suit but they were easy to see and remove.

Bryce

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6958670
08/08/20 11:56 PM
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I don't know why ticks & tick borne diseases have become more common. I wonder that too. They sure are a pain. Luckily they seem to have subsided ~mid July around here. They sure are bad each spring & early summer though.

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6958822
08/09/20 08:58 AM
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Its a year round every day thing here. The dogs gets a tablet once a month that kills them when they bite him. The cats get drops on their necks .... its just me and the missus that have to pick them of ourselves manually. I wish they made some of that stuff for humans as not a day goes by that I don't have one or two on me.


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Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6970449
08/21/20 11:41 PM
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Dealing with 'em daily would be a pain, Scuba.

Re: Ticks Are Out [Re: Trapper7] #6970454
08/21/20 11:47 PM
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I got maybe 2 this spring. None since. I burn my woods, from what I understand that effects tick populations.

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