Ticks and bugs.

An Old repellent for ticks...Vicks Vapo-Rub........spread some on shoe tops and ticks will not get to you...Ticks Absolutely cant stand whatever is in Vicks....If you find a tick attached to your skin just take a cotton swab with vicks on it and rub it on tick and the tick will immediately detach from your skin and eventually die
 
An Old repellent for ticks...Vicks Vapo-Rub........spread some on shoe tops and ticks will not get to you...Ticks Absolutely cant stand whatever is in Vicks....If you find a tick attached to your skin just take a cotton swab with vicks on it and rub it on tick and the tick will immediately detach from your skin and eventually die

Thank you for that information, my dog gets ticks. I will use that on them.
 
An Old repellent for ticks...Vicks Vapo-Rub........spread some on shoe tops and ticks will not get to you...Ticks Absolutely cant stand whatever is in Vicks....If you find a tick attached to your skin just take a cotton swab with vicks on it and rub it on tick and the tick will immediately detach from your skin and eventually die

That's a good trick to know. I'm fighting ticks right now. I think I got them all, but I got a couple of places where I removed them, that itch like crazy, and there is a little raised spot, kinda like a mosquito bite. Dang they itch ! Wish I had known about the Vicks vapor rub.....I will next time !
 
Permethrin is the best stuff you can use, Sawyers makes a clothes wash with it in it. Soak you clothes, hang to dry with no cats around as it's super deadly to cats when wet, and then use as normal.
I use it on my hunting clothes and to give you and idea, some spots i hunt you brush past a bush and you can look down and see HUNDREDS of seed ticks on your pants headed northwards, they never make it...
https://sawyer.com/products/permethrin-premium-insect-repellent/

+2 I got mine from Amazon a couple years ago and just spray it on til saturated and once it dries, you're good to go. It's supposed to even last through 6 washings. I've used it for around sloughs while photographing birds and nary a tick afterwards. I just make sure I always wear the same clothes for such activities and don't wash them that often.
 
+2 I got mine from Amazon a couple years ago and just spray it on til saturated and once it dries, you're good to go. It's supposed to even last through 6 washings. I've used it for around sloughs while photographing birds and nary a tick afterwards. I just make sure I always wear the same clothes for such activities and don't wash them that often.

+3 I got mine from Amazon, too, but I bought the Martin's bulk bottle, which has to be diluted. I sprayed a pair of pants with the mix as well as my boots, to use while cutting wood at the cabin. No ticks, so far. Each time before, I found at least two crawling on me. I also use it for re-fills for my Thermacell bug repellent device. That thing is awesome for keeping mosquitos away. I highly recommend it. The DIY re-fill vids will show you how to save a lot of money, compared to buying the factory re-fill packs. I hope this helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkPiPU8Oawk

https://www.amazon.com/Martins-Perm...ncoding=UTF8&refRID=M0KB4GEGYJMAJQ7BJMHX&th=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_nGrfybMU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11soiFPLgaY

https://www.amazon.com/Thermacell-M...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=K3BMZC40H2YMC6NHJ4B8
 
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During the spring/fall/summer, we let them roam our property all day and eat ticks, then we round them up into the Coop at night and feed them (they're generally pretty full already at the end of the day though).

During the winter (which we can get Windchill temperatures below -50° in Minnesota), they stay in their heated Coop and Run and we feed them once a day (about double the amount of feed that they eat in the spring/fall/summer).

They just go back and forth between our front-yard, side-yard, and back-yard all day long. We've trained them to know our property borders and they stay in our yard 95% of the time. Every once in a while they'll leave our yard, but mostly only when they go to the dirt road to eat some rocks and then they just kind of follow along the road eating them. If left untrained ... they have up to a 4 mile range. :shock:

Some people people don't even build a Coop for them or feed them anything. They can easily survive without being fed if needed (although ticks are their favorite food, they'll literally eat anything that moves: bees, spiders, ants, grasshoppers, small snakes - mice are the biggest thing I know that they'll eat).

Those that don't build a Coop generally lose some to predators though (they perch in trees as high as 40+ feet at night if they don't have a Coop, but Raccoons and other animals will still get them).

We Coop ours up at night, and have never lost one to a predator in the 3 years we've had them now. :grin:
You forgot to add that guineas are the birds from hell:lol: I've owned them in the past, I agree they keep the bugs down but I value my sanity and will never own any again...they produce a symphony of song that only the devil himself could design...when I hear them a half mile away at times, I shudder! I'll just deal with the bugs thanks!
 
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