Tick Control, and 3 Point Sprayer

[LukeDuke30]

Investing in a sprayer soon for weed control but also insect control. I will probably pick up a 3 pt sprayer from Rural king. This has been our first rural home and we've had a few ticks on the kids and pets recently even close to the house where there is no long grass. What insecticides are you using to keep things under control on your properties? I will be spraying 2-3 acres total.

Thanks

Luke

 

[Lnk]

We use Numida meleagris to control ticks at our location. It works well but can sometimes be a nuisance, the more you use the bigger the nuisance....

Good luck, oh, that's the only thing we feel safe to use...

Lnk

 

[dusty3030]

Bifenthrin or Permethrin are both good insecticides for ticks.
Both can be found at Tractor Supply and similar farm / ranch stores.
Follow label.

 

[LukeDuke30]

We use Numida meleagris to control ticks at our location. It works well but can sometimes be a nuisance, the more you use the bigger the nuisance....

Good luck, oh, that's the only thing we feel safe to use...

Lnk

I went that route first. It failed to launch. My wife shot me down in mid-flight. The kids want chickens, but anyway

 

[dusty3030]

Bifenthrin

Wisdom TC Flowable Insecticide, 1 qt. at Tractor Supply Co.

FarmWorks Indoor/Outdoor Insect Control Concentrate, 64 oz., 75226 at Tractor Supply Co.

Permethrin

Agrisel USA Zone-Plus Insecticide Concentrate, 32 oz. at Tractor Supply Co.

Gordon's Permethrin 1 Livestock and Premise Spray, 32 oz. at Tractor Supply Co.

 

[Lnk]

I went that route first. It failed to launch. My wife shot me down in mid-flight. The kids want chickens, but anyway

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

 

[Hozzie]

I use Bifen XTS.
Bifen XTS 25.1% Bifenthrin Insecticide | Termite Control Products | Free Shipping

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

 

[big bubba]

bet the kids are getting them from the pets. get the best tick treatment from your vet for the pets & see if that helps.
having kids & pets constantly around the compound, i wouldn't dream of using chemicals. but that's just me in a minority.
mainstream america's love affair w/ herbicides, fungicides, & pesticides is reflected by a walk down the Lowes isle to view all the choices.
i do understand your concern though esp w/all the new tick borne diseases.
treat the pets 1st. if that doesn't work, go chemical on your compound if your conscience allows, let us know how you come out

 

[wagne223]

bet the kids are getting them from the pets. get the best tick treatment from your vet for the pets & see if that helps.
having kids & pets constantly around the compound, i wouldn't dream of using chemicals. but that's just me in a minority.
mainstream america's love affair w/ herbicides, fungicides, & pesticides is reflected by a walk down the Lowes isle to view all the choices.
i do understand your concern though esp w/all the new tick borne diseases.
treat the pets 1st. if that doesn't work, go chemical on your compound if your conscience allows, let us know how you come out

I'm with you......here in FL, it rains too much to effectively treat the area around the house.
You spray and kill what is there, it rains later that day and more move in.

Time and money to use chemicals is not worth it plus I dont like using chemicals because of the risk to the dogs.

I just keep the grass mowed, treat the dogs with whatever the vet recommends and do daily tick checks.

Clothes come off in the laundry room, perform tick check, put on house clothes and go in.

Dogs get checked in the evening when I'm watching TV.

I keep a small container with cooking oil in it and drop any ticks I find in there.

Just part of living in the country in the summer.

 

[CADplans]

No one has mentioned "tick tubes",,,
this is the second year my SIL has been using DIY tick tubes,,,

EVERYONE has to save the "T" paper tubes so he can make more tick tubes,,, paper towel tubes are a bonus!! :cool2:
He claims the results are great,,

If you have a wooded area ,, or,, live next to one,, you need tick tubes,,,

 

[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.
Bifen XTS 25.1% Bifenthrin Insecticide | Termite Control Products | Free Shipping
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: