Really Ticked!!!!

[Diggin It]

They're eating me alive!!! Probably have snatched 6 or 7 of the little devils off me so far this year.


Musta' bin that thar warm Winter, eh?

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm used to them. "Back in the day" it wasn't unusual to take 30 or more off from me, and as many off my dog at the end of every day. I would be driving down the highway pulling ticks off her, crushing them between my fingernails and tossing them out the window at 60 mph. These were dog ticks though, not the ones which spread Lyme's.
My dog now gets a pill every three months and I haven't pulled a tick off him in years. I've already killed several off me this year, including one deer tick which was attached to my neck. They hold on a considerably tighter than their larger cousins.

 

[oosik]

Been out here 38+ years now. NEVER seen ticks so bad. I keep small medicine bottle half full of rubbing alcohol. Pick them off me - dump them in this bottle. Two weeks ago I quit counting - there were 34 "pickled" ticks in the bottle at that time.

My Lord - middle of the bloody night. I'm sound asleep. I awake and can feel one crawling on me. The only good thing - soon it will be too hot for them and they will disappear. Another good thing - all we have here are wood ticks - no deer ticks.

 

[Diggin It]

The only good thing - soon it will be too hot for them and they will disappear.

Ours just get meaner. And hungrier. Then along come the Chiggers to help.

 

[/pine]

They are attracted by CO2...and sweat...I'll leave it up to you to decide how to keep them from being attracted...!!

 

[oosik]

I was in Omaha and experienced Chiggers once. No thanks. I'll take the few mosquitos that the swallows miss here, over Chiggers.

 

[two_bit_score]

Google Seed Ticks:


Seed ticks are ticks in the larval stage of life, right after they hatch. But just like adult ticks, they like to feed on blood. “Seed ticks resemble poppy seeds with six legs,” Mark Beavers, Ph. ... And they have six legs rather than the eight that adult ticks have.

Very hard to see them on you until they get engorged with blood.

.

 

[Diggin It]

I was in Omaha and experienced Chiggers once.

I remember an episode of one of those forensics shows where a detective was hunting a fugitive out of state. Cops says he knew he found his guy when he could see the Chigger bites on his ankle from ten feet away. I'm thinking, if he could see the guy's ankles all Chiggered up, the guy was clearly nuts, insane from the itching and not responsible for his actions.

 

[zzvyb6]

I use Hartz Flea & Tick Shampoo on the dogs and myself. Dogs also get Frontline liquid 1-ce a month. Lately, I've been spraying myself (ankles and arms) with a Deep Woods mosquito repellant just to be sure. I've noticed that the ticks seem to like the grapevines growing on my fences. When I fix a post, I usually wind up with one on my neck.

Since getting a hot tub, we've noticed ZERO ticks on us. We just joked about it in the tub a few minutes ago. Maybe its the slight chlorine oder.

Decided unanimously that the tub will be a farm deduction as a watering trough.

 

[Jstpssng]

I use Hartz Flea & Tick Shampoo on the dogs and myself. Dogs also get Frontline liquid 1-ce a month. Lately, I've been spraying myself (ankles and arms) with a Deep Woods mosquito repellant just to be sure. I've noticed that the ticks seem to like the grapevines growing on my fences. When I fix a post, I usually wind up with one on my neck.

Since getting a hot tub, we've noticed ZERO ticks on us. We just joked about it in the tub a few minutes ago. Maybe its the slight chlorine oder.

Decided unanimously that the tub will be a farm deduction as a watering trough.

I stopped buying the Frontline because it only lasted for a couple of weeks, and you can only put it on once per month. I had gotten accustomed to doing tick checks when in certain parts of the state but for the last several years have been using Bravecto BRAVECTO(R) (FLURALANER) | 12-Week Flea & Tick Protection For Dogs & Cats and haven't found a tick since. That's especially important to me, because one of the many maladies my current dog had when I got him was Lyme's disease. I just wish that they would write a prescription for me...

 

[Industrial Toys]

Funny, we haven't seen any here at all in UPPER UNCTON.

 

[shovelmike]

Plenty of ticks here in Missouri too. I took the dogs for their walk through our woods trail, then worked on our old Tri Moto Yamaha out in the drive. I came inside and rested awhile, and picked three ticks off of me, have plenty of chiggers too.

 

[TomIre]

We have a ton of ticks in middle Tennessee. Besides Lyme disease, Google Alpha-gal meat allergy for a giggle.
This time of year I always wear long pants treated with Sawyers Permethrin and dog gets a Seresto collar. I've only pulled one tick off me this year. Got on my neck where there was no protection. I've been hunting and watched a tick on my treated trousers. Almost looked like it was on something hot. Couldn't get off fast enough. It works
https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Products-Permethrin-Repellent-Clothing/dp/B0877Q59ZH

 

[buck12]

We have more than our share in Mississippi. After a turkey hunt, I strip my clothes off in the garage. As a kid, I loved to fish in any hole with water. I would come home covered in ticks. Mom would make strip down to my underwear in the back yard and spray off with the water hose.

 

[oosik]

In past years I always used Frontline Plus. Out here with so much wind blown dust and dry dirt - the dog always had a "muddy spot" on his back from the Frontline. This year I'm using NexGuard chewable. Seems to work just as well and no greasy, muddy spot on his back.

 

[Maxify55]

We spray the farm with an insecticide from a tank in the UTV.
Then use Generic "Sentinel" we get mailed in from out of the country. {Ingestible}
Plus "Revolution" {Same company} for topical flea and tick control.
The little fur balls are better protected than their owner.
The Mrs. has a "No Bug Policy" that is non-negotiable

 

[mcfarmall]

I work at the largest animal health pharmaceutical company in the galaxy. I must get enough of the residual stuff in my system through incidental contact with product on my hands or whatever but I don't have fleas, ticks, heartworms or intestinal parasites!

 

[Jchonline]

Ours just get meaner. And hungrier. Then along come the Chiggers to help.

I can remember picking ticks off of our farm dogs for fun. I had 2 old bricks. I would pick 4 or 5 off, then smash them in the bricks. We grew up checking ourselves in the bath for ticks every night. Always someone coming along for a ride. They dont bother me at all, but they sure make my wife uncomfortable .

Now Chiggers....I would burn a pasture down before I walk through it to get Chiggers again.

 

[skipperbrown]

We have a ton of ticks in middle Tennessee. Besides Lyme disease, Google Alpha-gal meat allergy for a giggle.
This time of year I always wear long pants treated with Sawyers Permethrin and dog gets a Seresto collar. I've only pulled one tick off me this year. Got on my neck where there was no protection. I've been hunting and watched a tick on my treated trousers. Almost looked like it was on something hot. Couldn't get off fast enough. It works
https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Products-Permethrin-Repellent-Clothing/dp/B0877Q59ZH

We've been using the Seresto collars on our 3 dogs for the last 2 or 3 yrs. It will kill a tick within 24 hours and fleas quicker even after 6 months. It is an insecticide but we like it better than pouring insecticide into our dogs' skin (or anything that requires gloves to administer). Washing with a flea/tick shampoo didn't work at all.

Permethrin is also a very strong product, but it works. I've heard ticks will dance a jig getting away from clothing sprayed with it.

 

[BRMyers]

I have been using Sawyer Picaridin to keep ticks and other bugs away. I'm very diligent about using it each time I go out to the farm since my wife has Lyme disease and get to see first hand what a nasty disease it is.


https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Produ...B1T0WGSR0Q7&psc=1&refRID=Y19NENQ62B1T0WGSR0Q7