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Getting rid of ticks
Hey all, I have some new piglets that we Casterated yesterday, yuk job. Anyhow we noticed they are all infested with ticks. What can I use to get rid of them? None were feeding just running around on them. I dusted them with DE and all the other animals as well as the bedding area. Thanks for any advice.
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05/06/08, 03:52 PM
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Sevin dust.
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05/06/08, 05:47 PM
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Thanks GoatsRus, I will give it a try.
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05/06/08, 10:28 PM
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We are eat up with them on humans.I have no idea what to do.I'm finding at least two a day on each of us.I despise those bloodsucking devils.If we don't get Lyme disease it'll be a miracle.
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05/07/08, 12:37 AM
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Nasty little suckers aren't they? Hope the seven dust helps out.
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05/07/08, 02:21 AM
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If you can stand the noise try Guinea fowl. Although after they've eaten the ticks you can eat them and then it will be quiet again.
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05/07/08, 03:16 AM
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I agree with the guineas, they may be loud but they are worth it. We only have 8 and they take care of 11 acres. Not too loud after the first year.
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05/07/08, 06:10 AM
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We agree with guinea's. However, if you want them to stay around your property and not get eaten by fox, then it is ideal to cofine them to a building for at least 3 weeks before you let them out. That way, they will go into the building at night and roost. If you have a chicken house, you can confine them in there as they will go in and roost with them.
They love potato beetles too and you will not have any potato beetles in your garden. Guineas do not scratch like chickens, so your plants are safe and you use less bug spray.
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I got one of those emails awhile ago that said that Listerine mouth wash works to kill them. I haven't tried it myself, we have guineas and deal with the noise. Even the generic stuff works according to the email. Good luck, I can't stand bugs at all and ticks are the worst.
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05/08/08, 09:14 AM
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I spray with HIGH YEILD brand I think it is #33 or 36 you can read the label on friont , but it has pyethren in it it works great. It gets rid of fleas also at the same time . I use one of those TANK sprayers on my 4 wheeler with a boom from northern supply.
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Sevin Dust
If you are planning on eating these pigs, I WOULD NOT use Sevin Dust unless you like bug killer in your food. It is very harmful to people and animals.
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05/08/08, 11:03 AM
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Last year I added a clove of garlic to my daily diet. I didn't have a single tick. Got the idea from a friend who feeds his hunting labs a clove a day. That's there only flea and tick control and he claims they never have any.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wy_white_wolf
Last year I added a clove of garlic to my daily diet. I didn't have a single tick. Got the idea from a friend who feeds his hunting labs a clove a day. That's there only flea and tick control and he claims they never have any.
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Well our Wisconsin ticks must absolutely LOVE garlic since we eat a LOT of it at my house and still we're fighting the ticks. I do have to admit though that this year, even with all the rain, I've only found one tick and that one hadn't burrowed in yet. And all the while I thought my good fortune was due to Grandpa's Pine Tar soap! Hmmmmmmmmmm.....
Sorry I don't have a suggestion for the piglets...sorry. But I do agree with not using the Sevin dust. What does the vet say?
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05/08/08, 12:53 PM
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They did kind of look this that, but more like ticks. If they were lice how should I get rid of those? Or should I just ignore both? I would like to be rid of them though.
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If they are "running around" then they may not be ticks. Fleas and lice will move quite fast, but I've never seen a tick "run".
My cats get them out in the grass, then they come in and groom themselves and get the ticks out of their hair. The ticks will climb up the doorframes and furniture, hoping for a victim to walk by. We treat the cats with frontline, which keeps them from biting in, but does not stop the ticks from hitching rides into the house.
We nicknamed one cat "tick transport". I don't know if it is his color or what, be he gets more ticks than the other three cats combined.
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05/08/08, 01:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RVcook
Well our Wisconsin ticks must absolutely LOVE garlic since we eat a LOT of it at my house and still we're fighting the ticks. I do have to admit though that this year, even with all the rain, I've only found one tick and that one hadn't burrowed in yet. And all the while I thought my good fortune was due to Grandpa's Pine Tar soap! Hmmmmmmmmmm.....
Sorry I don't have a suggestion for the piglets...sorry. But I do agree with not using the Sevin dust. What does the vet say?
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Is the garlic raw? I was told that cooking the garlic deminished the effect.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RVcook
Well our Wisconsin ticks must absolutely LOVE garlic since we eat a LOT of it at my house and still we're fighting the ticks. I do have to admit though that this year, even with all the rain, I've only found one tick and that one hadn't burrowed in yet. And all the while I thought my good fortune was due to Grandpa's Pine Tar soap! Hmmmmmmmmmm.....
Sorry I don't have a suggestion for the piglets...sorry. But I do agree with not using the Sevin dust. What does the vet say?
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Are you actually eating garlic, or Elephant Garlic? elephant Garlic looks like a really big garlic clove and tastes like garlic. But I hear in reality it's some kind of leek.
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05/08/08, 02:11 PM
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I once saw a discovery channel program in Lyme Disease and how researchers took census of ticks in a given area by setting a tick collection point.
Ticks hunt by detecting CO2. Warm blooded animals give off CO2, so they can home in on them and feed.
The researchers used a white plastic trash bag with a cotton cloth in it (easier to see the ticks on a background of white cloth. Also in the bag was a block of dry ice.
As the dry ice sublimates, it carpets the ground with a layer of heavy CO2 gas. The tick detect it and follow the gas to the bag where they are collected.
Maybe set up something similar a ways from your living areas. Put sticky bug traps in the bag so they don't check out.
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