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Looks like this year is going to be "banner" year for ticks in Ontario: https://globalnews.ca/news/4197168/t...e-canada-2018/
I personally hate these critters more than any others as they carry serious diseases that can be transmitted to humans and pets.
What are you guys doing to protect yourself from them (and the diseases they carry) when going in the woods ?
Spray down your clothes you wear to the bush with permrethrin spray. Let it dry. I started using it several years ago and have not had a tick on me while turkey hunting since.
Had a tick attach to my back a couple weeks ago in our backyard...the little bugger was burrowing into my back and had to wait for my wife to get home to pull the little &*(^%*&%8 out ! No easy chore!!!!!!!!!!!
Alot on the topic of ticks and Lyme disease here
https://www.oodmag.com/community/sho...t-Lyme-Disease
Picking up a product from the U.S.A that is applied(spray tank) around the perimeter of my property keeping the ticks out. A friend of mine tried it out a couple of years because his entire family including his dogs were always covered in ticks. It worked like a charm and no longer had issues with ticks on his property.
We are lucky here in the Northwest.
Long cold winter with minimal snow caused a long deep freeze into the ground so many ticks died over winter.
I have had only a few this year where in other years picking 50+ a day is common.
I was out on my bike yesterday afternoon. I was on a main road in a subdivision and I pulled off a dog tick from behind my ear.
They are everywhere apparently
Sometimes I think some people are more prone/susceptible to attracting ticks. I use tick repellent(sawyers) and other products over the years and not once have had a tick on me(knock on wood). I have a buddy of mine that can literally walk through poison ivy in his bare feet and not get poison ivy. I just have to look at poison ivy and I get it.
Yup, picked one up behind my ear the other day while out cleaning up some brush on the edge of our fields. I think they will be bad this year.
I feel like they are crawling all over me now after reading this thread.
I don't do anything in particular other then wearing long sleeves cloths and long pants and high boots when in the bush and check myself and my cloths thoroughly afterwards. I found two on my cloths so far during this turkey season. None have been embedded.
I picked up tick repellant from High Falls Outfitters in Belleville last weekend. Havent tried it but they said it works great.
I find them the worst in the fall during the gun season when I am putting a ton of miles on my feet. Every time I sit down I am taking two or three off my cloths.
I think you're right on that one. I never get ticks. Maybe I'm to sour and miserable or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by yellow dog
My good buddy sits right next to me and sometimes has 10 or 12 on him.
He also has a blood disorder. High iron count or something.
He goes to the clinic every 2 or 3 months and they take a few pints from him and throw it in the garbage.
The ticks do like him for sure!
Nice to have friends like that for sure! I wish he'd get a newer boat though!
Hahaha that's funny ! Not him getting the ticks and blood disorder of course. When you said that you are sour and miserable. ") My wife says I am sweet and charming. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by SK33T3R
There could be a lot of truth in that theory, my wife and I can sit side by side, mosquito's will land on me and take off and fly to her and she gets bitten, she has had ticks on her a few times and I fortunately have yet to get one on me.Quote:
Originally Posted by SK33T3R
Last week I was across the road helped the neighbor load up some logs that they cut from a fallen tree after the storm, he wound up with 2 ticks on him me 0 plus I killed 4 that were crawling on the cut end of the logs.
Hahaha laugh at me will 'ya .... Looks like she's setting you up for a major purchase.Quote:
Originally Posted by yellow dog
rick_iles and yellow dog: This worked for me, too. You can get a bottle of concentrated (I think 30%) solution on amazon that you have to dilute down with water to 0.5%. It will give you a supply for years and years. I have also read that farmers use it to spray down their fencelines to prevent ticks to enter their corrals.
(The good thing is that once you sprayed your clothes and let them dry, the stuff apparently stays in the fabric for 5-6 washes. And they say it's not harmful to humans once it got dried on).
You can also buy it ready made at TSC in the horse accessories section, but the stuff has citronella fragrance in it, and I guess that is far from being ideal for hunting... (It still keeps the ticks away, though)
There are many kinds of ticks in Ontario but by far the most dangerous is found south of the border in the USA. Donald Trump the lunatick.
My cousin is part of a tick drag currently being conducted. They have found deer ticks at the old Charlotteville dump in Norfolk and he got 7 female deer ticks in one drag on one farm in the Dunnville area.
We have a female version of it up here in Ontario that not only spreads dangerous mental diseases but also sucks one's blood dry. Called Wynneous Bloodsuckerous Liberalius
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Originally Posted by Connie2002
Likewise, very funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerryklimczuk
To bardzo zabawne
i got 2 dozen guinea hens they eat hundreds of ticks a day each
I'm thinking about getting a few myself for the farm.Quote:
Originally Posted by bucketboy
Apparently opossums are great at killing tons of ticks. They are said to kill about 4000 ticks a week. The article I read says that ticks are really attracted to opossums, but they are meticulous groomers and kill about 99% of all those ticks.
Now I can start looking in pet stores for a nice, cuddly possum for myself ;-))
As I predicted, we have almost zero tics this year.
A friend and I spent 4+ hours... boots to ground in Div 10 farm land yesterday and neither of got a tic.
Most years, that amount of time would have generate 100+ tics combined.
Long cold winter and very little snow created deep prolonged ground freeze and killed most of the tics
I took a buddy out for one last kick at the can yesterday and pulled three ticks off my pants in a 3hr sit - bringing my total turkey season tick count to 12 (that I found)! This year is definitely worse than last year.
Just saw a newscast from the Netherlands with thousands of people protesting Bravecto. Apparently it has killed many dogs, caused seizures and a variety of other illnesses.Forty thousand signatures have been collected so far to stop Bravecto from being sold.
That's consistent with what is happening south of the border. They have had numerous 'sick' dogs associated with Bravecto.
Aren't you glad I put you onto the Seresto collars...
On a side note I was in Long Point that last few days judging a retriever trial and most people had found ticks on their body. I sprayed carefully and still found 2 ticks on me.
Yes very glad !Quote:
Originally Posted by krakadawn
First I've heard of this. I had my retriever on Bravecto last year without issue and have just started him again this year. I was contemplating going back to the Bayer product Advantix ? that we had him on before last year, but the Vet suggested Bravecto last year, (higher profit margin? lol). May have to investigate alternate products for next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by yellow dog
Personally I wouldn't take any chances.
Wasn't there a thread /discussion on here some time back about Bravecto and that some breeds of dogs were more susceptible to it than other breeds of dogs, if I remember correctly, Collie breeds were the most affected.
Just public hysteria....like flu vaccines...no basis for alarm and spread by the gullible ..LOl...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/br...-tick-warning/
The news report came out yesterday , not 2014 or 2015 as Snopes has shown past accusations were not correct . Must be an an imaginary protest in the Netherlands that shows thousands of people protesting, gathering 40 thousand plus signatures and showing the side effects of the product . I asked my vet about it and even he doesn't promote or sell the Bravecto product.
Netherlands...they looked at it back in 2016...not enough evidence to remove it from the market..
https://dogzine.nl/en/newsarticle/du...thdrawn-market
There is one 'Anti-Bravecto' Dutch Facebook site that is ranting on and on....and have submitted a 40,000 signatures on a petition...but that was last year and nothing has come of it..
https://www.facebook.com/Bravecto.dog.ill/
If you have a link to an article you read or heard about please post it.....I don't see anything a mainstream media to support widespread investigation into the claims that are being made that Bravecto is unsafe.
Bravecto kills dogs like Purina poisons them: in the fevered imaginations of helicopter fur-moms.
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Yes it's all made up. Not an ounce of truth.
Fact is, I can find reports of pets supposedly killed by Advantix, Frontline, Seresto, Bravecto, and Nexgard just by typing "xxx killed my dog" into Google.
The actual incidence of serious side effects is quite low.
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