DAMN TICKS!!!

[MrHunters]

First warm day!!!
Yank a friggin tick out of my back this morning! Now I gotta watch what unfolds. Hurts like hell too. Don't remember tick bites being painful before.

I think the tick population is getting out of control. Already pulled 2 off my dog this year.

[MrHunters]

not to mention the creepy crawly feeling i have everywhere today now!!!


BAH!

[thortum]

I couldn't agree more with you!!!!
They are EVERYWHERE! I love being in the woods [fishing, hunting, walking], but that's all changed now. We need to find something that EATS them. Come to think of it - they kind of look like lentils??! Maybe we could create a demand for lentil soup?

[ProfessorM]

Geez. I will have to check the dog.

[thortum]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

Geez. I will have to check the dog.

Shave the dog!!! Easier to find them.

[gldnbear93]

Originally Posted by thortum

I couldn't agree more with you!!!!
They are EVERYWHERE! I love being in the woods [fishing, hunting, walking], but that's all changed now. We need to find something that EATS them.

guinea hens

[Mike P]

We've had pretty good luck with Front Line keeping them off the dogs. As long as it's applied at the proper intervals. We weren't that dilligent with it---until my wife wound up in Cape Cod Hospital for 3 days last summer with babesiosis.

Most of the nasties are carried by deer ticks, not the common dog tick. But you might want to talk to your doctor about some antibiotics anyway, just to be on the safe side.

Tick bites itch a little but they shouldn't hurt like that--you might have left the head on you.

[Fishpart]

ticks are spread by mice. Take some empty TP tubes and stuff them with cotton balls you rolled in Sevin Powder. The mice make a nest with cotton and the sevin kills the ticks.

Flea and tick powder is just sevin dust (possible weakened). so if you have a dog that lays in the same spot on the ground all the time yo can sprinkle some sevin dust there to kill the ticks...

[MrHunters]

Originally Posted by Mike P

We've had pretty good luck with Front Line keeping them off the dogs. As long as it's applied at the proper intervals. We weren't that dilligent with it---until my wife wound up in Cape Cod Hospital for 3 days last summer with babesiosis.

Most of the nasties are carried by deer ticks, not the common dog tick. But you might want to talk to your doctor about some antibiotics anyway, just to be on the safe side.

Tick bites itch a little but they shouldn't hurt like that--you might have left the head on you.

not sure how i can tell if the head is still in there.

black dot and smooth at the point of the bite. pretty sure its out.

did i say how much i hate ticks!!

[MrHunters]

going to the docs tomorrow.. pains getting worse.











































i hate ticks :wall

[Squid kids Dad]

Good choice and good luck..Let us know how you make out...

[Raven]

but i'd have to build a inner compound to contain and protect my fowl
so they are not having to be chased back to the farm or eaten by predators.....
so that takes a whole bunch of wire...to do that.

but let me tell you about brewers yeast again...

you can take two identical dog bowls ok...

and put the exact amount of dry dog food in each one

except in the right bowl you put a single teaspoon of brewer's yeast
in it... and put both down for your dog...

the dog will say hmmm....wow ! two dishes and smell both.

100 % of the time they will select the one with the brewers yeast..

why? because having never even tried it before, instinctively

they know its better than plain dog food...
~
the other thing i discovered is that it works better than flea powder

not that i've ever seen a flea here... but when i lived in california

i bought a puppy that had them and i bathed it and used brewers
yeast as a flea powder and also pyritheum (sp) flowers powder which
is an organic pesticide and very harmless to animals and never saw a flea again.
Well the girl stopped by again to make sure the new owners (us) were doing ok
with their new dog..and she just could not believe how good smelling it was
and that she couldn't see or find a a flea...and was saying OK ?
tell me how the hell you did that...
in disbelief... and i smiled... MAGIC i told her...makin her twist my arm
before i told her what i did which was to powder the dog with brewers yeast
///bugs hate it totally ! mosquitoes, fleas , ticks, you name it they hate the
vitamin B1 in it with a passion.

[Raven]

when you take brewer's yeast regularly

it's one of the super foods listed in the nutrition almanac

mosquitoes will not suck your blood

i always enjoy talking to someone on a real buggy night

and they will be absolutely swarming with mosquitoes

swatting them and being harrassed by the constantly

where as i'm just calmly standing there
and the skeeters will not land on me...
they will hover over my skin and they already know
i don't want this guys blood... the ones that do land
take off again before dipping their straw because they
decide the same thing... and go elsewhere

oh the other thing you can get is pennyroyal oil
which is a member of the mint family and ticks
hate it more than brewers yeast even and i intend to plant
a bunch here for that exact reason...i soak strings in it
and loop one around my dog whens she's out to fetch her ball.

i know all this stuff from being a gardener ,a nutritionist, and a farmer

and

[Raven]

a newer natural product thats deet free and chemical free
made in Maine wwww buzzoff.us

better for fishermens hands i'd wager

and dogs too but i'm just guessing here

be your own judge on that

wwww stopticks.org for a people prevention site

i hope it's ok to post these as they are not sponsers

[MrHunters]

went to the docs pulled out the rest of the tick.
its fine now

BUT

pulled another one out of my arm this morning at 3am!!!

not for nuthin but since ive been giving the dog brewers yeast 0 on him and 2 on me.

This is rediculous

[Raven]

go to the nearest health food store for brewers yeast for people

its a nutritional yeast and super food for people

not just for DOGS

mix it with milk yogurt and or icecream are my favorite ways to eat it

oh and check the other thread on Ticks @ s-b

garlic works too...

you can cut a clove of garlic and rub it on your feet and soon you'll have Garlic breath ....potent stuff...

get some cedar paneling drop your clothes off outside
down

in the cellar and then shower and inspect your body each time
you've been out in nature plus you want to pull your socks up over your pant legs too

[MrHunters]

Originally Posted by Raven

you want to pull your socks up over your pant legs too

GEEK!



just kiddin

[Raven]

that's better than striping your clothes off in public


i had to do that once


while workin on the golf course

i was cutting this cottonwood tree up - right

and it was hollow and full of stink ants that bite
(of course i did not know that)

suddenly i realized that a thousand of them
went right down my shirt attacking the
killer chainsaw enemy -> ME

and i stripped off my clothes wicked fast i'll tell ya

down to my underwear and was running around all crazy like

these two woman in a golf cart were laughing their asses off

and totally enjoying the show...

best day of golfing they ever had

[MrHunters]

Originally Posted by Raven

that's better than striping your clothes off in public


i had to do that once


while workin on the golf course

i was cutting this cottonwood tree up - right

and it was hollow and full of stink ants that bite
(of course i did not know that)

suddenly i realized that a thousand of them
went right down my shirt attacking the
killer chainsaw enemy -> ME

and i stripped off my clothes wicked fast i'll tell ya

down to my underwear and was running around all crazy like

these two woman in a golf cart were laughing their asses off

and totally enjoying the show...

best day of golfing they ever had

i have a similar story that involves me, two other guys and a







not fun


funny now though

[GunnySniper]

Day 5 of my Lyme disease treatment...........................
Can't believe I got bit by a tick in March and got a hot one first shot.
I can see it's going to be a nasty year for them.
With all the snow, then rain, the warm weather is going to be breeding paradise for the little vampires.
Well, I'm going to go take my meds and get back to bed, Man I feel like $hit!

[Raven]

i hope you feel better SOON

i like the peacefulness of not hearing a crowing rooster
but i may just be changing my mind and have a couple
of free ranging chickens to eat those bastard -ticks.

my friend down the road has bunches of chickens..
but a great horned owl is taking some of them often
and his ducks too...plus a Bobcat has taken three
chickens in last three days...over at his place.

My dog is freshly bathed and reeks of pennyroyal oil
but you have to fight back....somehow
every square inch of my
farmstead will be planted with mints, onions, garlic and
anything else that repels ticks because they are the worst
bug out there with mosquitos second and hornets third.

just be glad we don't have fire ANTS... and african bees
they just killed a man in florida yesterday....
if we had fire ants
i'd personally own a flame thrower ...LOL

[RIJIMMY]

took one out of my 6yr old girls head last week. I patted her head when I came home and felt something. Things suck

[Fishpart]

I have been experiencing debilitating pain. Went to the Doc this AM and he says you have Lyme..... I didn't even see the tick that got me, it hurts to type........

[Raven]

so sorry to hear this news FishPart...

in as much as i don't want to have roosters crowing
here at my place i have to also consider the amount of ticks
that are here... because the other day i was sitting here
typing away and suddenly ones crawling on my wrist...

even my poor dog who's had very little exposure
to them of late
had one on her at the vets....which blew my mind.

I hope your meds kick in and give you some needed relief
soon.

get well soon FishPART

[striperman36]

Pulled an engorged one off of my puppy today. Had her frontline treatment 2 weeks ago.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by MrHunters

First warm day!!!
Yank a friggin tick out of my back this morning! Now I gotta watch what unfolds. Hurts like hell too. Don't remember tick bites being painful before.

I think the tick population is getting out of control. Already pulled 2 off my dog this year.

same thing just happened to me MR Hunters... sitting here trying to get Amped up on coffee and i feel a tingle and sure enough another tick in me on my back... son of a beotch third one this year..

now i'm gonna have chickens (worth the hassle) just to eat them friggan things....
man oh man ...........do i hate them with a passion... ughhhh

[MrHunters]

when i went to the doc's about the first one, I said to him, I don't recall them being this bad when I was a kid (20 years ago). He said they weren't, every year he sees more and more people come in with tick related problems. So it isn't cyclical, its just getting worse.

[Raven]

not sure why that is... a lady in Westborough mass told me she had to close her kennel to kill them off because all the dogs there got them..... and that had never happened before she said.

but i was reading about these ants in Texas that showed up

"imports from Africa " or somewhere.... that are totally

impervious to insecticides which may explain it... possibly

which is why i am moving towards having something eating them

because i've had enough.... of this battle they seem to be winning.

i can go see my buddy and get all the free eggs i want...

you can't leave his place without excepting like 3 dozen ..... LOL

but i want something thats constantly eating all the bugs