Anyone Having Problems With Ticks This Year

Over here in Ga ,I've only gotten 2 off of Scooter and they were not attached .
He is on K-9 Advan.

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Originally posted by bluesman blues:
It's hot and dry and ticks are everywhere, it could be a bad thing then again it could be a good thing, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6EcKUk00U

not a good thing if you're tick-checkerless.
good thing i'm bendy

yes!! we are having a big problem....especially @ our creek, it's those little bitty deer ticks too, you know the ones that look like freckles?

I keep Frontline plus on all my animals because it will kill the deer ticks.

I know someone who got bitten on the foot by a tick, and then stepped on a thumbtack. He now has a severe case of Tick-Tack-Toe.

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Originally posted by Puzzled Mind:
I know someone who got bitten on the foot by a tick, and then stepped on a thumbtack. He now has a severe case of Tick-Tack-Toe.

i'm having no problem with them.... unless the words 'swarms', 'herds', 'legion' or 'plague' mean anything to you!

they are awful this year. just took a horse to the vet clinic and left her there, with what we think is a tick borne illness.

I haven't found any on me since I went and got dipped.

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Originally posted by hoss gal:
i'm having no problem with them.... unless the words 'swarms', 'herds', 'legion' or 'plague' mean anything to you!

they are awful this year. just took a horse to the vet clinic and left her there, with what we think is a tick borne illness.

Oh me Hoss ,hope your horse will be ok .

thanks, tnt. i think she will. her legs all swelled up and she has a high temp.

it's always something with horses. whoever coined the phrase 'healthy as a horse' never owned one

here is a pic of her from last summer....

Keep coal oil soaked rags tied around your ankles,

That will keep them off.

and the skin, too, i'd imagine!

lol rramlimnn , we use to put it on when we would go pick blackberry's ,and if you was hurt ,,like one time I stepped on a nail and my grandmother soaked a rag in coal oil and put it on my foot ,I left it on my foot all night and the next day it was not sore at all.

Hoss thats one pretty horse . I hope she gets better .

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Originally posted by hoss gal:
here is a pic of her from last summer....

She's beautiful!!

Hoss gal, hope she is gonna recover really well too. bless it. and for putting the coal oil on you, I did that, my grandparents believed coal oil was the cure for everything. It probably is, now that I think of it.Rram. man, wouldn't that be very messy and sloppy walking and slopping all over the place with them rags on your ankles? I would think so, kinda funny pic in your head huh?

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Originally posted by DONNA C:
Hoss gal, hope she is gonna recover really well too. bless it. and for putting the coal oil on you, I did that, my grandparents believed coal oil was the cure for everything. It probably is, now that I think of it.Rram. man, wouldn't that be very messy and sloppy walking and slopping all over the place with them rags on your ankles? I would think so, kinda funny pic in your head huh?

DonnaC

I’m easy to spot in a crowd.

I’m the one with coal oil rags on my feet.

It also prevents lockjaw as you can see.

I hear there is a man in Marion County that was bitten by a tick and contracted
Lyme disease. He is currently in a wheelchair and unable to walk on his own.
This is so scary.

No problem with ticks...but...man those skeeters are deadly!

I havnt seen many skeeters at all over here , but our June bugs are droping from the sky ,,I see several dead everyday on the porch . Wonder why they are dying like that ?

Did anyone else tie a string around the legs of june bugs and let them fly ?

yep we did that as a child.. and when I showed it to my kids..they thought I had flipped! lol

lol its was fun and cheap ..a way for our mom's to make us get outside and play ,,,

I remember the June bugs and thread, too.

If you're serious about ticks try the old standby -- sulfur powder in your socks. It does work.

Or, more modern, a spray with Permethrin.

I have found a few ticks on our beagles, but not in a while.. but our Ticks are nothing like the ones up around The Bear Trace Golf Course, in Clifton Tn. 4 of use went there 3 weeks ago , not that I lost any golf balls , but I helped my friends find theirs, wow I got 7 to 8 ticks off me & they was twice the size as here with a white spot on their backs, & 3 had allready started to bite, one place on my leg got really bad , & made a scar . I will not play golf there again , unless in the fall or early spring . Was a very nice course