Ticks

[bigjohn]

Looks to be a bumper crop of them this year.

[segsarge]

Like everyone else, I hate ticks. Guess I'd better stock up on tick spray.

[bigjohn]

My hunting clothes get sprayed with a product called Insectrin X mixed in water. 1/4 ounce product to 28 ounces of water. This product can be bought at most Farm and Home type stores for about $10 to $12 for an 8 ounce bottle. It's used on cattle rubs to control pests on cattle like flies,lice,ticks,etc.

It's an insecticide so ONLY spray your clothes till they appear damp and hang to dry. Once dry they are good to go and will keep ticks off for 6 months or more. They'll even be good after a couple of washings. Since I started using the stuff I've never had problems with ticks while wearing clothes sprayed with it.

[trapperw3]

Thanks John i will get me some and try it hate ticks

[krank]

I used to be a tough guy and get out there with no spray and come home a pick ticks for the rest of the day. Then I started having a fever and funny sores that took forever to heal. Fooey on that. Now I spray with barn spray on my clothes and OFF on my skin. When I come home, I leave the clothes outside and head straight for the shower. This dang Lymes disease is becoming too common to fool around.
I know a guy in Rhode Island that was 50 years old and got terrible sick and wound up in a nursing home in a wheel chair. They had no idea what was the matter with him. A visiting doctor noticed him sitting there and asked why a young man was in a nursing home. Jerry told the Doc his story. The doctor was from the Midwest and told him to get treated for Lymes disease. He did and went home two weeks later. Back then, folks in RI had no experience with ticks.
My barn spray is Pyrethrin. Safe for people and rough on insects. I spray horses with it for flies. Dairy farmers fog their milk parlors with it. I buy a 40% jug of it and dillute in water. Kills ticks on contact. Stuff you buy at the tractor store is less than 10%. I keep a big sprayer full all summer. When I travel, I carry a small pump spray bottle. Nike the area before I put up the tent. Everything leaves or dies.
OFF is great but expensive. Outdoorsman that spend alot of time outside (Like Canadians and Alaskans) carry DEET. You can get 100% but apply sparingly.

[bigjohn]

I have a reaction to deet products hence the reason I looked for something else.

There has been an uptick of the disease that tick bites has caused that makes a person allergic to red meat called Alpha- Gal. That right there would be as bad as death to me lol

[krank]

Years ago, there was an article in the newspaper about a couple that sprayed RAID on themselves and went mushroom hunting. Long story short. Both of them almost died.
Yup DEET is nasty stuff. Anything that works is potentially harmful. Most of the organic stuff hardly works.
I like the permethrin because it is fairly safe. I have a hard time with that word. I was calling it pyrenthium earlier.

[trapperw3]

My Wife got Alpha-Gal she had it for over five years was just getting over it when she pass a way it was bad

[krank]

My Mom and Dad and Grandparents never had any of these problems back in the day. They spent their whole childhood roaming outside and never got bug bites. Ticks were unheard of and chiggers were only in blackberry patches. My uncle said the deer spread the ticks. I feel like going aboriginal and cake on mud and wild onions.

[bigjohn]

Deer are the number one spreader of ticks. I read an article that stated by reducing the deer numbers you greatly reduce the tick numbers also.

Before the '93 flood, there were very few ticks in the river bottoms I fish and ran beagles. Those bottoms were covered with flood waters due to levee break and the deer fled to the hills and bluffs to get out of it. When the waters receded, the deer moved back down and brought the ticks with them. Every year since then the ticks have got worse. Another reason I don't like deer .

An crane operator I worked with on bridges mother was diagnosed as having a stroke years before. She steadily declined in health for about 10 years before it was recognized she'd actually had Lymes disease. I guess it's a very hard to detect disease but they're getting better at recognizing it.

[bigbob]

Apr 3, 2024 15:21:22 GMT -6 bigjohn said:

Deer are the number one spreader of ticks. I read an article that stated by reducing the deer numbers you greatly reduce the tick numbers also.

Before the '93 flood, there were very few ticks in the river bottoms I fish and ran beagles. Those bottoms were covered with flood waters due to levee break and the deer fled to the hills and bluffs to get out of it. When the waters receded, the deer moved back down and brought the ticks with them. Every year since then the ticks have got worse. Another reason I don't like deer .

An crane operator I worked with on bridges mother was diagnosed as having a stroke years before. She steadily declined in health for about 10 years before it was recognized she'd actually had Lymes disease. I guess it's a very hard to detect disease but they're getting better at recognizing it.

In this day and age of oversensitive libtards you better STOP calling them Chiggers, they prefer to be called Chiggroes.

I knew a guy in my Beagle club that got seriously sick and ended up in the hospital with Rocky Mt Spotted Fever where he died. They found a tick in his beard.

I spray Perminone on all my clothes when I head for the woods now. and I have found that Avon "Skin So Soft" is a VERY effective repellant for ticks and chiggroes. They even make it with Deet now. A little spendy but worth it.

[krank]

Like the guy in Rhode Island. Doctors back East had no experience with ticks.
Its our environment.
Skeeters have always been bad. Lewis and Clark complained about them in their journals.
Last night I went mushroom hunting and wore OFF and muck boots. No ticks. It was very windy and 50.
Coon get ticks bad. A fur grader showed me a coon hide with tick bites down its back. He said those spots will not tan and the hair will slip out.

[Walleye Joe]

Chiggroes! LMAO

Good one, bigbob!

I rarely spray down. I had better be more preventive since I've already had several ticks on me this year. The wife had one on her side yesterday morning. Our little Yorkie dog has had a few on him recently. Is it okay to apply this Permethrin or Insectrin X stuff on our pets?

[krank]

I spray horses and soak them with dilluted perenthiums. Just dont get it in their eyes or mouth.
I used to dust coonhounds with SEVIN. Once again, dont get it on face.
Knew an old timer that used to rub on the cattle duster hanging in the pasture. Headed out to cut wood.
My uncle used to carry a sock full of sevin and talcum powder in his truck. Left it on the floor. He would slap it on his legs when he left the truck.

[bigjohn]

Joe, it says on the label you can use on dogs and gives the rate of water to product. I haven't done it but do spray the inside of my dog box with the same mix I use on my clothes.

[krank]

40 years ago, I was living in an old farm house with a beagle and a german shepard and a coon hound. Guess what? I got a flea infestation. My Uncle took a huge bottle of pyrenthium barn spray that pressurized and set it off and killed every flea in the house and an hour later everybody could come back inside.

[segsarge]

Back when I was a kid my dad used to dip the dogs in a 55 gal drum of a mix of water and some kind stuff he bought at the feed store. It came in a dark brown bottle with a white screw-on cap. Not sure what it was, he always said it used for sheep. Turned the water in the drum white in color when added. A dose of it in the spring and the dogs were good all summer.

[krank]

THat sounds like DDT ,Sarge. I have a brown bottle of it and it turns milky in water. Never have used it myself. Kind of a collectors item in its 1950 labeled bottle. My Grandpa used it on draft horses for flies. Pumped it with a trombone sprayer.

[bigjohn]

Dipping dogs in sheep dip used to be pretty common. Doubt it was DDT though krank. Most dips are oil based so they turn the water milky when mixed.

Lots of old timers would rub used motor oil on there dogs and nowadays many use half a cow tag fastened to their collar.

[krank]

YEah, I knew a coonhunter that dipped his dogs in used motor oil. Not a fan. Looks like the dogs were pretty miserable. Questionable if it fought ticks or created dermatitis.
We had a wick cattle rub. It was a 6 ft post with a 5 gallon steel bucket on top. It had a diagonal wick staked to the ground. Dad filled it with waste oil and then put in a glug of something in a brown bottle.
Also had a cattle duster which was a bag of SEVIN hung between two trees.
Knew an old river rat that commercial fished the Osage before Truman lake was in. He carried a jug of baby oil. He slathered up with it. He swore the skeeters could not bite through that oil. Still had skeeters all over him. He cussed the Corp for the rest of his life claiming that they killed the river.
Old school sheep dip had arsenic in it.