Correctly Removing ticks?

I have many ticks in my area, what we do is I carry a spray can of insect killer on my truck, if we call and shoot and after we decided to pack up and fetch downed critter or critters, I take that bottle and spray jackal on the ground, a lot in ears, around mouth, under tail, and run my hand over fur backward so as to lift fur as your hand rolls over it, and at the same time spray with spray.

If we slit open jackals stomach to remove innards for smells for down wind, I check I dont get any splatter on myself and after stapling the dog back together I again check and spray again.

This kills most, I then spray a lot around the end of the foot I will hold, then carry dog back to truck. I dont walk on the spot I lie it down on while packing up or dont touch around hooks on the truck that the dog is hung on.

I then check my hands, arms etc for ticks. When I get home I do a complete inspection and NEVER come into the house with my boots on unless they are checked properly. I then bath in DETTOL or germ killer.

I am really scared of tick fever so take precautions.
 
heating an object will get a tick out no doubt. but by doing that you can make the tick to vomit back into the wound making the chance of infection even greater. i just use tweezers and slowly pull them out, clean out anything that might remain..i dont know about other states but here in Pa our deer ticks,adults, have ared horseshoe on their backs. They say,game commission, that if a juvinile tick has lyme disease it will kill the tick before it reaches adulthood. so if the tick you pull off has that red mark on its back you are at least same from catching lyme disease its an adult.
 
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They say,game commission, that if a juvinile tick has lyme disease it will kill the tick before it reaches adulthood. so if the tick you pull off has that red mark on its back you are at least same from catching lyme disease its an adult.




How is it spread then if it kills young ticks??? I don't understand that.
 
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They say,game commission, that if a juvinile tick has lyme disease it will kill the tick before it reaches adulthood. so if the tick you pull off has that red mark on its back you are at least same from catching lyme disease its an adult.




How is it spread then if it kills young ticks??? I don't understand that.



Maybe humans get it from young tick bites? Before they die from the disease. Does it have to be an adult tick that bites a host, or can juvenile ticks do so also? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
No one knows for sure if the pathogen is passed from adult to larvae or if the larvae and nympths pick it up from a host. (white-footed mouse) The latest research suggests the former. The notion that the Borrelia organism kills juvenile ticks is absurd. The tick is simply a vector that is used by the bacteria to propogate itself. If it kills it's vector, then the vector is no longer useful to the bacteria. A Lyme infected tick has no distinguishing characteristics. The red horseshoe is common to deer ticks (black legged) and does help with identification when compared to the common dog tick or lonestar tick. You're best off avoiding all of them. Tick-borne disease is serious stuff. With turkey season coming up, April through June is the time when tick populations are at their highest with the recently hatched juveniles agressively searching for their first blood meal. Speaking from experience, I hope it's not a fellow Predmaster.
 
I know in the past I have just pulled them out with tweezers like before mentioned. I for certain will now after reading some of the links posted. Great post guys and gals.

On a serious note, while working for a contractor years ago I worked with a fella that got poisoned from a tick (not sure exactly what disease) and it caused serious brain damage. The guy was as dumb as a rock, and had some serious mental issues. Also something to do with the bite and transmission it caused his face to "wrinkle up" permanantly (kinda like squinting or making funny faces to toddlers). Messed up dude, I felt for him. Id follow the adivse mentinoed for sure to not end up like him.
 
The surest way to avoid all the problems is to keep them off you. One word for that, PERMANONE. Missouri has ticks and chiggers in the warm months and early squirrel hunts, spring turkey, early fall predator, early deer bow season, and fishing from a river/pond bank could load a guy up with critters. After using Permanone I just never have those issues anymore.
 
I use an elastic boot blouser on my pants legs and tuck them in my boots. That, along with Permanone. Haven't seen a tick in about 5 years.
 
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