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Ticks Galore!!!!

HawRiverArcher

HawRiverArcher

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3 weeks into spring here in central NC and I've already pulled ticks off myself both kids and the dog numerous times. Not the usual dog ticks either but tiny deer ticks.

We've been spoiled by the last couple of years. With the record lows we had this past winter and weeks and weeks of temps in the 20's and even teens thought we might get lucky again...nope

Time to break out the permethrin.

Scouting is going to be fun this summer. It's bad this year already.
 
I over do the permethrin. I put about an ounce in a 24 oz. spray bottle and flood the clothes. Let them dry, and go hunting. Usually get about 6 weeks worth of hunting before I need to reapply. For the yard, I use Triazicide. Put it in a spreader, and run it around the yard. Even keeps the dogs and cats tick free. Lasts the entire summer usually. If I'm blind hunting, I take a handful with me, and throw on the ground inside and around the blind.
 
Ehunter said:
I over do the permethrin. I put about an ounce in a 24 oz. spray bottle and flood the clothes. Let them dry, and go hunting. Usually get about 6 weeks worth of hunting before I need to reapply. For the yard, I use Triazicide. Put it in a spreader, and run it around the yard. Even keeps the dogs and cats tick free. Lasts the entire summer usually. If I'm blind hunting, I take a handful with me, and throw on the ground inside and around the blind.
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Thanks for this been looking at something for the yard!
 
Insane amounts of ticks in New England this year. Worst of all, lots of tiny nymph ticks - so small you can barely see them.
 
Bigterp said:
@GCTerpfan put me on to that awhile back it definitely works!
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Really? I may need to try this. I treat everything I wear for hunting turkeys and scouting heavily with permethrin and treat the yard with (I think triazicide) but if this works I need to try it. The ticks here have been about average. I've had a few crawling around, but not bad so far.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
Really? I may need to try this. I treat everything I wear for hunting turkeys and scouting heavily with permethrin and treat the yard with (I think triazicide) but if this works I need to try it. The ticks here have been about average. I've had a few crawling around, but not bad so far.
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he does it all year I think, I do it from April to October. It works, I just put a little bit in some orange juice & shoot it. I know some of you real men are taking it straight……..nope!
 
NMSbowhunter said:
Really? I may need to try this. I treat everything I wear for hunting turkeys and scouting heavily with permethrin and treat the yard with (I think triazicide) but if this works I need to try it. The ticks here have been about average. I've had a few crawling around, but not bad so far.
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I used to find ticks on me all of the time. Then several years ago I started noticing that when the people around me that were on the same hike/hunt/camp that I was on found ticks embedded in themselves, I never did. I would find them crawling on me but they never bit me. I once found one crawling on me 8 hours after I came inside and changed clothes and it still hadn’t tried to embed itself.

It wasn’t until I heard someone say that “old timers” in the logging business used to drink ACV to keep ticks from biting them that I realized the time period of me being tick free started about the same time that I began drinking ACV every morning for acid reflux issues. Ive been mixing a tablespoon or two in an electrolyte drink every morning for over 10 years now and haven’t had a single tick embedded in me in that time. And I spend a fair amount of time in tick habitat for both work and play. I also quit spraying my clothes with permethrin years ago.

Im making no promises and I can’t show you any studies that says it works but, I’m going to keep doing it.
 
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GCTerpfan said:
I used to find ticks on me all of the time. Then several years ago I started noticing that when the people around me that were on the same hike/hunt/camp that I was on found ticks embedded in themselves, I never did. I would find them crawling on me but they never bit me. I once found one crawling on me 8 hours after I came inside and changed clothes and it still hadn’t tried to embed itself.

It wasn’t until I heard someone say that “old timers” in the logging business used to drink ACV to keep ticks from biting them that I realized the time period of me being tick free started about the same time that I began drinking ACV every morning for acid reflux issues. Ive been mixing a tablespoon or two in an electrolyte drink every morning for over 10 years now and haven’t had a single tick embedded in me in that time. And I spend a fair amount of time in tick habitat for both work and play. I also quit spraying my clothes with permethrin years ago.

Im making no promises and I can’t show you any studies that says it works but, I’m going to keep doing it.
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I will try this! Do you have to let it build up in your system for a little while before it works or is it pretty fast acting?
 
GCTerpfan said:
No idea, I was drinking the stuff for almost a decade before I put it together. Lol.
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I wonder if eating homemade pickles on a daily basis would have the same effect.

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Jammintree said:
I wonder if eating homemade pickles on a daily basis would have the same effect.

www.farmersalmanac.com

7 Natural Tick Remedies That Work

The CDC reports that there are over 300,000 new cases of Lyme Disease in the US each year. These effective natural tick repellents ...
www.farmersalmanac.com www.farmersalmanac.com
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That’s the first I’ve seen ACV being a tick repellent discussed in print. I assumed it was from the acidity.

As far as pickles, you’ll have to get someone else to be that Guinea pig. I hate pickles!
 
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