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socceronly
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# Posted: 17 Apr 2025 07:23pm
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I went to view a property a couple of days ago, which the (selling) agent described as a tick farm.
She said she has to pull several off her dog every day they walk the path behind the property.
Insisted I check myself after walking the property.
Have to say this creeped me out a bit.
I know they have exploded in the last decade. Not sure what to make of it.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 17 Apr 2025 08:31pm
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All I can say is to be diligent in your daily body tick search and removal, as Lyme disease can be terrible. I've been there and was lucky that nothing has shown up since the bullseye red ring showed up, and I received a prompt course of antibiotics. It's been 8 years.
FWIW, if that property has a large number of ticks, I would think they are all over that neighborhood.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 17 Apr 2025 09:11pm
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They run in cycles around here, some years are terrible. One walk between us 2 and the dog we pulled over 200, and we had stayed on the truck path, not out in the bush! We didn't move and that seemed to have been the worst year, but it gives one pause for thought about an area.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 18 Apr 2025 08:26am
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At my house they can be bad. I can tell you though that lowering the rodent population and useing "tick tubes" helped a ton and has been helping from when I started doing this 3yrs ago.
Tick tubes are just permethrin coated mouse nest material. They find it, make nests from it and in turn it kills ticks. Way cheaper to make at home with permethrin spray vs buying tick tubes.
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