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Not even deer or small game?

Nothing that comes from any mammal

Damn.

A buds wife has something that makes her unable to eat much beef and what beef she does eat has to be cooked then boiled 1 or 2 times to get rid of most of the fat.

Cattle farmers too.

Like all allergies, some get it worse than others and some do spontaneously seem to get better. But some go from mild to ambulance ride too.

Yeah, Cash mentioned his friend can't eat chicken or eggs that have been fed on feed containing bone meal and such. I never heard that, but if the birds incorporated that into their flesh, and the proteins or whatever were still hanging around it makes sense.

I'd have to raise my own chickens and eggs (which I already do!)

And I'd eat a lot more fish from the ocean, not many mammals out there that fish eat on.

Swamplord is not quite correct I think. We have ticks and spiders both, just not anything nasty. Yet. But they are on the lookout on the tick frontier.

IIRC, Lyme doesn't host in blacktail deer, but it's probably only a matter of time. I know half a dozen people up here that have it - all caught it hiking while Outside, mostly eastern US.

I have a nephew that I believe has it. He got it from a tic bite. He can't eat any beef, but venison is fine as long as no beef fillers or fat is used in the processing. Puts a whole new outlook on deer hunting...

I thought there weren’t any ticks up there until the last year we lived there. Conditions got just right or something but I shot a rabbit in November that was covered up with little seed ticks and the following summer our dogs were constantly getting into them when they’d go out.

Maybe kinda like the Wood frogs that came out one spring on a bear hunt. Only ever saw them that one year but conditions must have been right because they were thick.

My good buddy I was in the Air Force has it, and it’s made his life miserable. He can’t eat red meat anymore and has even paid out of pocket for treatments to no avail.

Maybe start raising Ostriches. Their meat is reddish.

I know a guy who has it. He gets frozen emu meat shipped in from somewhere. Says it's almost as good as beef steak. I imagine it's real $$ but never checked the price.

Can they eat fowl?

Never having had it, but having heard from some who have, I bet I'd be putting in for sandhill crane tags.

My brother had a rash that would not respond to anything his doctor or dermatologist tried. He came to my house and got himself a proper dose of Ivermectin and it was gone. He took a dose 2 weeks later for good measure and it never came back. Might be worth a try and it won't hurt. It could be a reaction to a parasite or some other life form that Ivermectin kills.

Won't hurt unless one has an allergy to Ivomec.

Not sure there is anything for that. Didn't used to be anyway.

No mammal meat whatsoever. If the allergy is sever enough you cannot even consume dairy or gelatin. He was a cattleman too, which is like rubbing salt in the wound. There is no known treatment for it. To be honest, it’s got me pretty paranoid about ticks, especially after my bout with RMSF, which is the deadliest tick disease. Spring turkey season I sat in a nest of seed ticks. 100’s of them all over me and my gear. I’d rather deal with snakes and mosquitos and chiggers than ticks.

My best friend and his wife had the Spotted Tick Fever a few years back. I pull at least 1 off of me every time we work at the place.

That's after soaking clothes in Permethrin and using Picardin lotion. I would hate to see how many I would have if I weren't treating.

You know it’s weird but as a kid we had ticks here but the last 25 years or so they’ve become extremely rare even on deer we shoot.

Do you have fire ants? I believe they kill the ticks.

Yes sir we do.