ticks

[bigpaul]

[Grumpy Grandpa]

[Kenneth Eames]

BP, Thanks for this post. GG, Thanks for the Tick Twister. I will see if I can buy some tick twisters. Kenneth Eames.

[bigpaul]

tick removers, like everything else, are available on Ebay.

[Mortblanc]

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.

[Stewart]

most vets and good pet shops sell them as well

[Highlander]

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

[Stewart]

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

[uks]

[Highlander]

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