Re: RC: tick control

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

WHERE do YOU live?  Ticks sure do drop out of trees here!!!!!  I've found
more on my head than anywhere else, and I don't graze!!!!

Teddy (ohio)

Kelli Hjelmeland wrote:

> > In addition, ankle collars would do little to stop ticks from
> > falling out of trees and landing on the forelock or tailhead unless the
> > active ingredient is potent enough to work systemically.
>
> Heeheehee - ticks falling out of trees!!! Ticks are ground dwellers, and
> while they do climb short shrubs and tall grasses, I've never had one
> pounce on me from an overhead branch before! I've met deer-ticks and
> dog-ticks, but never a cougar-tick ;^)
>
> Horses get them on the forelocks from grazing, and on their tails from
> the ground.
>
> My horses live in a heavily dog-tick infested bushy area, and for every
> one tick I'll find on their bodies (from the legs on up), I'll find
> about 30 in their tail and the odd one in their mane and forelock.
> During the really heavy tick season, I will wash their tails in a dip
> solution for parasites - that keeps them off for quite a few days and
> kills any I might have missed.
>
> An interesting point - one of my three horses has a very high tail
> carriage, much more than the other two, and he hardly ever gets ticks in
> it.
>
> Kelli Hjelmeland
>
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