longbowch
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Eat lots of garlic, they don't like the smell.
What is available to the public to mix in a spray tank that I can spray a large area with?Almost died with Rocky Mountain Spotted tick fever.
I use the clothes treatment permethrin and then spray clothes with deet (at least 20%) immediately before going into the brush and one of the big lone star type ticks will still get past the repellents every once in awhile.
Had couple shots few years ago provided by the employer as a preventative for lymes disease. I think maybe they are not even offered anymore. I might have been a Guenia pig or lab rat for that one.
Giardia is another one that almost got me. (took a drink from a clear mountain stream)
I started using a Seresto collar about 2 years ago on two dogs. Found them on-line at about 1/2 price.
Seresto keeps ticks and fleas off the dogs, but had to remove a collar from a small dog due to allergy issues with the collar. If ticks are found on the dog they would be dead
and I live where ticks get thick.
I take a hand crank seeder and put tick granules in it and can cover a lot of ground around house using the seeder application vs just hand throwing application.
Bifen IT insectcide keeps the insect critters away really great in/outside house and shops.
Do not use it on yourself for tick control though.
I'm not too far from you and I'm not seeing many ticks this year. My dog that doesn't get very far from the house has only had 1 tick so far this year. I treat him with flea, heart worm and worm prevention and the stuff I use now doesn't control ticks. I got zero ticks during mushroom season but I did get one on me the other evening while limbing a tree that fell across the driveway and into the field. I felt it crawling on me before it had a chance to bite.Well, it's that time of year again! Since, We had such a mild winter up her in the Midwest. They are predicting that the fleas, ticks, etc. will be bad this summer. What tips, do those of you that spend a lot of time in the back woods have for repelling ticks?
Almost died with Rocky Mountain Spotted tick fever.
I use the clothes treatment permethrin and then spray clothes with deet (at least 20%) immediately before going into the brush and one of the big lone star type ticks will still get past the repellents every once in awhile.
Had couple shots few years ago provided by the employer as a preventative for lymes disease. I think maybe they are not even offered anymore. I might have been a Guenia pig or lab rat for that one.
Giardia is another one that almost got me. (took a drink from a clear mountain stream)
I started using a Seresto collar about 2 years ago on two dogs. Found them on-line at about 1/2 price.
Seresto keeps ticks and fleas off the dogs, but had to remove a collar from a small dog due to allergy issues with the collar. If ticks are found on the dog they would be dead
and I live where ticks get thick.
I take a hand crank seeder and put tick granules in it and can cover a lot of ground around house using the seeder application vs just hand throwing application.
Bifen IT insectcide keeps the insect critters away really great in/outside house and shops.
Do not use it on yourself for tick control though.
You can buy larger quantities and higher % if you search Google. The higher grade (%) is usually for farms and livestock.What is available to the public to mix in a spray tank that I can spray a large area with?
What is available to the public to mix in a spray tank that I can spray a large area with?
What kind of tick granules do you use? Are they safe for dogs? Thanks in advance for the information?
What is it & how does it compare to deet.View attachment 578228 My wife makes this stuff don't know what's in it but it works and doesn't smell awfull like store bought stuff.
Sulfur Powder. fold a cuff in your pantlegs, and pour the powder into the cuffs. Ticks stay away, and so do the humans.Well, it's that time of year again! Since, We had such a mild winter up her in the Midwest. They are predicting that the fleas, ticks, etc. will be bad this summer. What tips, do those of you that spend a lot of time in the back woods have for repelling ticks?
Sulfur Powder. fold a cuff in your pantlegs, and pour the powder into the cuffs. Ticks stay away, and so do the humans.
As a teenager on a ranch did not know about anything as a repellant other than Sulphur, kerosene to the pants legs and drank lots of the rotten egg smell Sulphur water. Our well water was the rotten egg type Sulphur water.
Very few ticks seemed to bite, maybe due to the Sulphur in my system, but I've seen seed ticks so thick on me that they looked like dust moving around.
Did not feel them seed ticks crawling until I sit down to rest. Stay moving and I would not feel them crawling.
Seemed the chiggers really liked the groin area where I could not use the kerosene.
Turkeys do the same.Don't kill possums! They eat thousands of ticks, including any ticks that get on them.
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