Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: Trapper7]
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03/29/20 09:58 PM
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Scuba1
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I have been picking them of the cats all winter.
Let's go Brandon
"Shall not comply" with morons who don't understand "shall not infringe."
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Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: Trapper7]
#6822437
03/29/20 09:58 PM
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wamp
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I keep my dog on them year around
"Keep your traps free"
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Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: Trapper7]
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03/29/20 11:43 PM
03/29/20 11:43 PM
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Picked 2 off the dog yesterday
No matter how much money you make, always eat good🐠
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Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: tomahawker]
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03/29/20 11:49 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! 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.
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Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: wamp]
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03/30/20 07:44 AM
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Just gave my dog his monthly flea and tick pill (Credelio). That's his first one since last November. 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?
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Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: tomahawker]
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03/30/20 07:49 AM
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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! Agree! Chickens are very effective bug control and very happy when they are doing it.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: Trapper7]
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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.
I don't care how nice the hand soap smells, you should never walk out of the restroom sniffing your fingers.
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Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: Trapper7]
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03/30/20 11:56 AM
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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.
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Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: Trapper7]
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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
"Keep your traps free"
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Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: Trapper7]
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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?
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Re: Ticks Are Out
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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.
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Re: Ticks Are Out
[Re: Trapper7]
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08/09/20 08:58 AM
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Scuba1
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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.
Let's go Brandon
"Shall not comply" with morons who don't understand "shall not infringe."
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