O/T Ticks

GREGinMO · May 26, 2008

Ticks are out of control at my place...you literally cant even walk through the yard without getting several on you. I"ve heard that guinea fowl are the best for tick control, but chickens work also. Would sure appreciate any advise. (I know this is the best place to ask for it!)

jd b puller · May 26, 2008

Home Depot/Lowes sell an Ortho Product that you broadcast onto your yard. I think it's about 2-3 bags per acre. Make sure your pets are on that Frontline stuff, it kills the insects when they bite the pets.

jose bagge · May 26, 2008

I've always used Sevin Dust to knock 'em out...I've also found that when i lime a lot the tick population seems to be lower.

Anonymous-0 · May 26, 2008

I've have had some luck by cutting/cleaning up grass and brush around the place.

DET (mosquito repellent) helps to keep them away from being attracted. I use the highly concentrated liquid stuff. I put a little on my shoes, feet, ankles, etc.

Try to keep deer away. Where ever deer pass, my experience has been, there will be ticks. Around here, deer are the biggest carriers. It is hard to keep them away from the yard unless you have a big dog that likes to run them off.

I hope this helps. They are no fun. I've been out on hikes/walks and come home to pick off 50 or 60 at a time. After you get the first one, it seems that every bristling hair feels like a tick crawling around.

NawlensGator · May 26, 2008

I spread Talstar around my place and put liquid flea medicine between the dogs and cats shoulders. No ticks here. There is also a generic brand for Talstar (best thing going for fire ants also).

DRL · May 26, 2008

Sulfer powder works good. Spread it around the yard.

Gun guru · May 26, 2008

Go to www.doityourselfpestcontrol.com

See what they can sell you.

El Toro · May 26, 2008

Here in the East some of those ticks carry the deadly Lyme's disease. Make sure you look your body over carefully for any ticks or any family member if they're been in a tick infested area.
Do a search for Lyme's disease. They found it in 2 of our dogs when checking their blood. They were put on antibiotics. Its a killer if it isn't diagsnosed. Do a search for Lyme's disease. Hal

old · May 26, 2008

Yep there bad this year in Missouri. Birds of most any type help but not all that much. I have found if you take garlic pills it helps more then having birds or any thing else
Hobby farm

El Toro · May 26, 2008

Here's a web site on Lyme's. Hal

www.wrongdiagnosis.com/l/lyme_disease/intro.htm

RichZ · May 26, 2008

Guinea fowl and chicken definitely work. Guineas are slightly more efficient, but if you have chickens you can eat and sell the eggs. Get either as chicks from a hatchery (google Murray McMurray), keep them in a small pen until they're about half grown, and then let them free range. We do that, and we never find ticks on ourselves or our dogs, not to mention our livestock. They work better than any pesticides that I know of.

Walt Davies · May 26, 2008

That garlic will keep a lot away. Girls friends and such.
Walt

dangerdoc · May 26, 2008

Dursban would control ticks for an entire season and seem to be helpful for several years after application. Unfortunately, the EPA took that one away from us.

Soak your boots and work pants down with pyrethrin about once a month. That will keep a good portion of the ticks off.

If you have pets, buy the good tick killer from the vet, it really works and will selectively thin the tick population where the pets live.

I just sprayed a patch in the yard with seven a few days ago. I"ve never used it for tick control, I"m curious how it will work.

Joe (Wa) · May 27, 2008

I buy FRONTLINE from the vet, been bulletproof on my 12 lb dishwasher for last 9 years. Vet tells me the ticks have to bite in order to get a killing dose. This spring she has had 3 on her over 2 months that just didn't die. Vet cuts them out no charge including followup(s) for infection.

These are common ticks for this area, no more than usual for this time of years, none on me at all outside most of the day. Seems they are developing resistance to the fipronil & (S)-methoprene used in FRONTLINE.

Joe

ohiojim · May 27, 2008

ya just can't beat that sevin dust

Anonymous-0 · May 27, 2008

Never had ticks back home when we had chickens running free in the barnyard. They always returned to the chicken house before dark for feed/water and were shut-in. When parents got older and finally abandoned chickens, ticks got real bad. Started to have a bad tick problem around here and didn't want to maintain any fowl. Read that mice were an intermediary host, so went on a crusade to eliminate mice. This has worked very well, few ticks today. With no animals/feed and no stored grain, mice only migrate in from the field and can be more easily managed.

GordoSD · May 27, 2008

My little female english setter went for an unauthorized 2 hour run yesterday, down in the creek bed.
I took 75 brown deer ticks off her, and another 13 off me that she evidently dropped in the house.

Gordo

Mark - IN. · May 27, 2008

This is '08. I remember having one of my dogs into the vet during the mid-90's and he showed me a map of the country and where both heartworm and lymes disease used to be during like the 60's, and how far they'd spread nationwide since then. Was an incredible growth and spread and I'm sure much more since even then. He didn't say it but I figure banning DDT had something to do with it. I figure banning Dursban has plenty to do with it as well. I also figure that when we're reduced to having to wave biodegradable balloons at them, that'll also further affect the infected situation, but not positively. Just a hunch though.

Mark

greygoat · May 28, 2008

The State of Wisconsin, DNR, has a tick breeding
area, across the road from my land. It's called
a State Natural Area, and is open to the public
for hiking, observing wildflowers and gathering
ticks, for redistribution to new homes. A half
our walk will gain you 15 to 30 ticks. But, Hey!
if every visitor would take a few home and
disperse them, there would be fewer here!
CHECK YOUR CHICK FOR TICKS !!!!!!!!

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