Tick Control, and 3 Point Sprayer

[RalphVa]

Just mow, and that will control the ticks. No need to spray. We need to stop spraying where it is not necessary.

Ralph

 

[DieselBound]

Get chickens and guineas at the same time as chicks. They grow up together and wont pick on the chickens. Actually they are great at watching for predators, both ground and sky based. We have had them for 2 years now and they go into a chicken tractor every night at sundown. On day they had a stray dog that was looking for an easy chicken dinner pinned into our fenced garden. The dog was afraid of the guineas, and they wouldn't let him out through the section of fence we open in the fall. I had to shew the guineas away and chase off the dog, which high tailed it out as i sent a couple of shotshells over him as he ran down the hill. I figured if he came back he was curtains.

The guineas eat sunflower seeds from my hand, but wont let us pet them. Which is fine, as they have other jobs to do. As a matter of fact, we should have a few new guineas as we have a couple of broody hens right now, and fertile guinea eggs. They are also not annoying, if they cackle, it is because something distresses them. And not blowing leaves either. Good luck with the quest, perhaps you could persuade her to try them.

Lnk

Yup! (my previous dog grew up with Guineas- it was amazing to watch how they worked together) I've only seen three ticks in my 9+ years here: two have been on our previous dog (can't recall where the third one was). And just about zero fleas.

 

[fruitcakesa]

I have been mowing and using cedar oil spray which is toxic to ticks and safe for pets and humans.
I spray the areas around the house and repeat after rains[which is pretty regular lately]

 

[oosik]

Been out here 38 years - never sprayed for ticks. Don't like using chemicals in that quantity. Always some type of negative affect. Over all this time it's Front Line for my pets and just pick them off of me. I've got 80 acres of open range land plus thousand and thousand beyond my fence line.

I've only ever had a couple start to "dig in" on me. I can always feel them crawling and just pick them off. I have a small pill bottle half full of isopropyl alcohol to drop them into.

Some years are worse than others. Overall - not that big a problem.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

I'm using permethrin. Safe once dry. Works on just about everything. Helps on mosquitoes too. I keep the dogs inside while spraying and give the grass a chance to dry out.

Ticks haven't been bad this year, yet.

 

[LukeDuke30]

Believe it or not, the pets were both isolated cases. They are indoor only and both got out and made it into the tall grass/lightly wooded area. When the kids had them, we were working on installing mulch around the house on bare ground. There is a shaded area on the east side of our house. That is where both had ticks. Luckily, neither one had been bitten yet.

 

[duffer]

I use Bifen XTS.
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This is made for outdoors and is more oil based to have better residual effect. Better concentration/$ as well in most cases.

Ditto

 

[Overtaxed]

One more vote for Bifen XTS here. I spray about 50 acres down with it 2-3 times a year. It's the end of most bug problems, ticks, spiders, gnats. All gone. The only thing that can seem to live through it is fire ants, if they've had time to get established. But if not, Bifen seems to keep them from taking hold or finding their way back onto my property (Extinguish is an amazing fire ant killer, if you have that problem too). Pretty cheap, wind up with about 75-100 dollars in Bifen a year to live bug free over most of my land. Well worth it to me. I use a 50 gallon boomless boom ATV style sprayer on my Honda Pioneer, if I was doing more land, I'd want a 3pt sprayer, but the ATV sprayer is light, easy to attach and does a good job; just wouldn't want to refill it 10 times a day if I needed to do 500 gallons instead of 50. IIRC, it's about 32 oz of Bifen XTS to 50 gallons of water for the "heavier" mix percentage that's permissible with this chemical. Works great, smells kind of nasty, but goes away in a day or 2.

 

[fishheadbob]

Just mow, and that will control the ticks. No need to spray. We need to stop spraying where it is not necessary.

Ralph

I think RalphVa hit it on the head.

 

[D2Cat]

Are you saying the mower hits the ticks on the head?:laughing: