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ticks - bigpaul - 27 July 2013
RE: ticks - Grumpy Grandpa - 27 July 2013
RE: ticks - Kenneth Eames - 27 July 2013
BP, Thanks for this post. GG, Thanks for the Tick Twister. I will see if I can buy some tick twisters. Kenneth Eames.
RE: ticks - bigpaul - 27 July 2013
tick removers, like everything else, are available on Ebay.
RE: ticks - Mortblanc - 27 July 2013
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.
RE: ticks - Stewart - 27 July 2013
most vets and good pet shops sell them as well
RE: ticks - Highlander - 27 July 2013
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
RE: ticks - Stewart - 28 July 2013
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
RE: ticks - uks - 28 July 2013
RE: ticks - Highlander - 28 July 2013
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