(27 July 2013, 10:21)bigpaul Wrote: [ -> ]American site but it still applies this side of the pond, I would add one thing to the article, don't go out in shorts!!! http://apartmentprepper.com/?p=10328
A timely reminder BP - they can carry some evil stuff, the little buggers and we're right in the season for them! This wee tool looks like the ideal addition to an EDC 1st Aid Kit to deal with them...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcW3E3jNv8I
BP, Thanks for this post. GG, Thanks for the Tick Twister. I will see if I can buy some tick twisters. Kenneth Eames.
tick removers, like everything else, are available on Ebay.
You need a flock of well trained security chickens!
I have not found a tick on me since I turned my first chickens into the yard two years ago. My neighbors even comment on how the ticks and bugs are gone from their yards too. I never hear a complaint about my roaming birds.
most vets and good pet shops sell them as well
I remove ticks from my dogs almost every night.
I dont use a tick twister, since a vet once told me that ticks drive themselves into the skin clockwise,... so it is a simple case to remove them by `unscrewing` them out,.. use tweezers on the small ones or finger for the bigger ones,.... they will come out cleanly after about five turns
I know,... I didn't believe him at first either,... but it is true honest
aparantly ticks breath through their body,so a dab of nail varnish on them,they die and drop off without leaving teeth in the host.read this somewhere...my excuse for nicking the wives nail varnish
I get them on me every time I skin a deer, and very often when walking the hills, I guess they make no distinction between dogs and humans....lol