Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Lots of ticks this year

I have a little property up on the Forest near Izee, OR. I spent 5 days last week working on it and had more ticks on me last week than in all my previous 50 years on this ground. It was unbelievable… My poor Aussie, even after several thorough inspections, still brought home to Montana a couple of these attached Oregon souvenirs.

I thought i was the only one battling with ticks

Southern Michigan is crawling with the little blind bastards. So far this year the wife and I have not had any latched on, but it entails disrobing and inspecting ourselves after being outside in the field.

Yep, been pulling up to 5 a day, off each of our 3 dogs !

Yep .

Also Salyers repellent , although Off/Cutter on clothes does the trick for me .

What meds?

I used to live in central Georgia. I had a one acre lot on Lake Sinclair. When I moved in to the house I had about 30 fire ant mounds on that property. Typical for that area. I got onto them and wiped out all the fire ants.
After I had done that, I noticed that I had a big increase in ticks on my big pet cat. This was an indoor/outdoors cat. And I got to thinking, I wondered what fire ants eat. And I figured that they would eat other insects like ticks.
So I laid off the fire ants, and within one year I had 30 fire ant mounds again. And after that I got few, if any ticks on the cat. Fire ants do eat ticks and lots of them.

Now I live in the mountains and we don't have fire ants up here.

Get yourself some fire ants. That’ll take care of your tick problem 😁

Terrible year for ticks around here. Can't walk out of the yard without getting a few of the bastids crawling on you.
My son just bought ten guinea fowl to free-range behind the house. Word is that they're very effective at tick eradication. We'll see.

When I was growing up, ticks were no more than a nuisance. Pick them off, and go on your way. Today, though....

40% DEET every 4 hours on skin anywhere they can come into your clothing. Tight weave fabric clothing us important. Spray heavy. Spray on back of hand and wipe in beard. Spray hat under brim, too.

Permanone or equivalent permethrin on clothing if you really hate them.

Have to do DEET at least 40%. Permethrin alone will let an occasional one in. I hear higher % DEET works longer.

DEET will melt paint and plastic.

I suspect that is why some of us don't get Lyme's or alpha gal. We had so many ticks as kids. I never worried about ticks. It was redbugs that had us putting kerosene on our pants and shirts when picking blackberries.

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My son just bought ten guinea fowl to free-range behind the house. Word is that they're very effective at tick eradication. We'll see.[/quote]


I got lymes disease last year. My wife is a doc and her practice is seeing lots of those cases in NC. We are currently raising 30 guinea foul chicks. My job is to spend a lot of time with them now so they imprint on us. We have a neighbor that keeps a few guineas and he uses freeze dried meal worms to hold their undivided attention. He just shakes the bag and they come running.

We hope they end up like a giant pack of tick eating puppy dogs following us all over the property.

I want to start eating a little sulphur, which is supposed to keep them suckers from biting you, as it stays in your bloodstream, and the little bastards do not like it. I have sulphur, I just haven't gotten it out to do it yet.

I haven't seen ticks down here in years.

probably why i haven't seen any in years.

None in the mountains here yet. Of course today high was 51°F.

Gruff says they’re attracted to evil.

I've never had one on me, so that checks out.

get you some sawyers. spray it on your clothes and you won't have any ticks.

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