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05/19/07, 01:33 AM
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tick numbers question
After a day of working on the homestead or playing in the woods..... how many ticks on average do you have to pick off yourself?
Finally moving to the country next weekend. Spent the evening exploring the woods at the new place tonight and found three of the lovely beasts on me when I got back  But it's worth it! :baby04:
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05/19/07, 02:20 AM
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Average, here in central Illinois......upon return from the typical outing ?
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05/19/07, 03:55 AM
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2 or 3.
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05/19/07, 04:48 AM
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none on me, but the cats each have 1-2 on them. (8 cats here). They come to me so I can pull the little buggers out.
We have free range chickens and ducks so it might help. Although 1 year ago DH got bite by one. He has suffered with the affects of Lyme ever since.
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05/19/07, 06:23 AM
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Amazing enough....I've only seen one tick this year...so far.
I think the up and down temps are still getting to them. I've been clearing brush and in lots of tall grass so have def been in their preferred area.
This won't last long. Last summer I probably averaged 5 or 6 a day. It's kinda funny once you find one every time a hair moves on your body yer like ---- another tick lol
Tick season here we come 
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05/19/07, 06:41 AM
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That is about average around here too. I can count on finding some on me if I go off of the regular path around here and sometimes when I stay on it. We used to have a problem with little bitty seed ticks. They were so small you could hardly see them but you would feel like your skin was crawling. Then you would have bites all over. I remember working at the vets one summer and this hound dog came in and was dropping thousands of swelled up little ticks no bigger than the point of a pencil. Gross!! We got the problem under control here by regular mowing in that particular area.
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05/19/07, 07:39 AM
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I usually pick a dozen or so after being on the pond dikes for the 15 minutes it takes to feed the fish. Last week I spent the day sampling for work and picked at least 30.
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05/19/07, 07:47 AM
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20 - 30 this time of year. Enough that they cause no alarm and only mild annoyance.
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05/19/07, 08:06 AM
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Was out fencing for about 7-8 hours this week and came back with 30-40.
I strip down on the porch and get most of them, then take a bath and get another half dozen. There are always 2-3 that evade this tactic and I eventually feel them crawling around an hour or so later. Of that whole mess, only 1 really latched on. They sure take their time deciding where to bite.
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05/19/07, 08:10 AM
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0-1 here in Northwestern MN. but DH was out and about in the fields and had two on him. He got a nasty rash from one that latched onto his leg but the doc said it wasn't lymes. It was a larger tick that bit him.. I'm still trying to figure out what their purpose is in life!LOL 
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05/19/07, 08:22 AM
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Anyone from NE PA get ticks? I grew up near the Poconos and never had a tick. We moved to MD in 1948 and didn't even know what that ugly grey swollen thing was on our dog's ear. Has this changed and now PA has ticks also? I noticed Canada, MN so apparently the cold doesn't stop them.
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05/19/07, 08:34 AM
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None.
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05/19/07, 08:37 AM
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It seems they are more abundant in the spring and early summer for some reason,I was out last weekend working on my well and only got a couple on me.
That was in north central TN.
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05/19/07, 09:07 AM
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20 - 30 this time of year. Enough that they cause no alarm and only mild annoyance.
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This was just a guess but today I will get a hard count for y'all.
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05/19/07, 12:01 PM
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Ask me next year after my 'scovies and runners lay a beat'n on them. 
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05/19/07, 12:09 PM
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Ask me next year after my 'scovies and runners lay a beat'n on them. |
My turkeys and 'scovies clear the yard (I just picked one off right now), but out in the grass they are thick.
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05/19/07, 12:15 PM
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Since we are on the subject, any novel ways of killing the wee beasties? My mom used to wrap them in tissue and burn them. I once knew a sweet young girl who would bite their heads.
Just last week I had an excellent tick. I burned it with a lighter and instead of the usuall pop-and-hiss, I got a spinner, like one of those fireworks that spins around. It was a good day.
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05/19/07, 12:29 PM
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Well, I should have known NOT to click on this thread & read it while I was eating my lunch!
I found 1 crawling on me so far this season - it hadn't latched on yet
none on the kids, thankfully
our dog is another story - he usually has about 10-12/week
I haven't noticed any deer ticks (the little ones) - the ones we have are the big flat ones - yuck!
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05/19/07, 01:56 PM
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They sure take their time deciding where to bite.
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Yes, and I'm so thankful!
I'm the tick-picker here. Usually 2 on average daily between DH and DS, not always biting. We mow and have chickens, so I can't imagine if we didn't!
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05/19/07, 02:05 PM
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BTW, several of our tick sightings/removals have been because they blew in on the wind and not because we were in the tall grass or such. DH had one hit the back of his neck while coming up the porch steps one night. They still freak me out although the more I see them the calmer about them I get. Just another pest... just another pest...just another pest...
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