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New York => Ice Fishing New York => Topic started by: grubdropper on Feb 25, 2018, 04:40 PM
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Just let the cat in from outside. He came in and had a fat tick attached under his neck. I guess it's spring time.
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My son lives in Clay NY near Oneida Lake and he called yesterday and told us he was out hiking and when he came in the house he had a tick crawling on the back of his hand. Their going to be bad this year.
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I agree. I found one on my daughter's sleeve after shed hunting the other day. My dog had to get one removed last winter.
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Took a walk out yesterday looking for shed antlers... found a total of 5 crawling up my pant legs
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One off the dog before bedtime, one off of the side of my back while using bathroom at 2 AM. Not easy yanking those suckers off without being able to see it!
Both were wood ticks, I hate those microscopic deer ticks even worse... >:(
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they are one tough little bug, whats it take to kill a few off?!? I havent been in the woods yet, just finished my ice season up yesterday, but im gonna pop some tree rats and shed hunt next time I get the chance. last february when it was unseasonably warm my son got one on his leg when we were trout fishing. My 6yr old had one on her after playing in the woods this past fall, she HATES bugs and my wife tried not to let her know she was taking it off her but she figured it out and freaked out! poor girl was screamin n cryin askinng me am I gonna die?!? my son didnt help he told her she was gonna turn into a tick, that did not help matters at all...
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Had 4 crawling on my dog the last 5 Days they are out! Going to be a nasty year for ticks. I use sawyer tick spray, it kills them even when they just crawl on your clothes. If you use deet spray on top of it it’s even more effective. As for my dog, Bravecto from the vet keeps them from latching on 90% of the time. If they do latch on they die in a matter of hours from what I see, very few bite my lab now. My dog freely roams a couple hundred acres so finding a couple ticks everyday crawling on him is nothing new. They rarely bite him now.
I’ve been bit 4 times the last several years and still no lime disease according to my bloodwork! I soak my hunting clothes in the stuff now and didn’t get bit once this year and I hunt in heavily tick infested areas.
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Pulled one off the dog yesterday, last fall I pulled 28 off her in a three day span, they are getting unreal
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get some sawyers tick spray it kills them dead. spray all your hunting clothes and fishing let them dry and then its good for 6 washes. been using it for 5 years kills them dead. wal mart carries it i get mine at dicks bigger spray bottles. no more ticks on me or in me. not for the skin just your clothes.
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permethrin is the secret and yes wal mart or dicks DON'T SPRAY YOUR SKIN!
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Anything for dogs?
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if you get lyme disease, you have it for the REST of you life.deer ticks carry about 6 different
disease, i have lyme disease. the speay i put ON MY CLOTHING--NO MY SKIN-- is permethrin
to me deet is no good for ticks--permethrin is good for 30 days or till you wash your clothing
and the disease DOES COME BACK with out a new bite---google it---read 3 or 4 different reports
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RAT
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Anything for dogs?
YES--ask your vet what is the best one --note dogs get it so bad they STOP walking
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RAT
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Ace Hardware sells a concentrate made by Bayer. I spray it in the yard, and around our archery clubhouse. It lasts about 3 months. I spray in the spring and around July 4th. Haven't had a problem in 3 years. It comes in a blue quart bottle for about 30 bucks. Ain't cheap but it goes a long way.
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Ace Hardware sells a concentrate made by Bayer. I spray it in the yard, and around our archery clubhouse. It lasts about 3 months. I spray in the spring and around July 4th. Haven't had a problem in 3 years. It comes in a blue quart bottle for about 30 bucks. Ain't cheap but it goes a long way.
THANKS-i will try that,will help I do not want any of the other disease ticks carry
RAT
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they come out in force once the temps is above freezing and they are ferocious after being dormant. Riverrat, sorry to hear that you got Lyme. that sucks big time. A friend of mine has it and she suffers severely when it flares up.
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None here yet but i started spraying down my clothes and shoes... Go through 1 of these every year...
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We use the Seresto collars on our animals and they work well.
A few ticks still hitch rides into the house.
My yardwork clothes and shoes are all sprayed with permethrin.
Keeping the grass cut helps too.
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None here yet but i started spraying down my clothes and shoes... Go through 1 of these every year...
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THAT IS WHAT I USE.lyme may slow me up,but it will not stop me,but age may.
RAT
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I tested positive for lymes 3 years ago after the antibotic reg i tesred negitive ....a lot of head way has been made if you catch a tick within 72 hours on dose (2 pills) of i believe doxicillin and no worrys. Anther thing a tick can only pass lymes when fully engorged your best protection permethin and deet dress proper and check your self after being out .wash your cloths as soon as possiable
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Just a few i pulled off myself past.year..
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Good thread. Lymes almost killed my fiance. First doctor told her the mark was a spider bite. Couple of days later she was inumbearable amounts of pain. Trip to the ER and another opinion determined it was Lymes. Left untreated it would have killed her.
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ticks are an epidemic here where i live everyone please be careful. sawyers ticks spray is the best thing out there that i know to protect yourself when out fishing hunting trapping whatever please spray your clothes . they come a long way on lyme disease but it can get your real sick and even might have to take medecine for a long time. i havent had a tick on me since i used it and im fishing and hunting all the time. back into trout ponds pheasant hunting where there are loads turkey hunting also and deer hunting. its a great feeling to come home with no ticks on me around my grandchildren. it may sound like im preaching but ticks carry lyme disease
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Yates county they gang busters last couple days. Today wore treated clothes and no issues. I'm gonna by that Sawyers by the gallon it's life saver.
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Best thing for ticks is a couple guinea hens. They will eat every tick in the area. They are dirt cheap like chickens and pretty much take care of themselves. For dogs the best treatment is an edible flea and tick treatment. I believe it’s the only treatment proven to actually kill the tick. Other treatments just make them woozy so they fall off but can reattached after a short period of time.
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I have 6 guinea fowls they can't keep up
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I was diagnosed with Lyme 2 years ago, and I still don't feel 100% Sawyers is a must. It is a neurotoxin for them little *****s, also treats scabies.
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guinea hen isn't going to help you in the woods saywers or bug blocker is the best answer I even spray deet on my skin too .....,remember lone star ticks are around too and you don't want that meat allergy they carry ....and it doesn't hurt to ask your doctor to check your blood for lymes at your annual checkup
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Ticks are really bad around my place. I went for a short walk in the woods last year and pulled a dozen ticks off my pants when I got out of the woods. Our cats get quite a few ticks during the year.
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Hiking my dog in central New York today... pulled over 80 off him and flicked at least 25 off myself. Unreal. So bad!
He's got the collar, so I'm not to worried. Just sucks seeing them crawling around on the truck seat and in the house on the carpet.
We were only hiking a little over an hour
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I was diagnosed with Lyme 2 years ago, and I still don't feel 100% Sawyers is a must. It is a neurotoxin for them little *****s, also treats scabies.
Sucks Terry. You should have seen Erica. I was beside myself she was hurting so badly...
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Sounds like the pine bush ... ticks galore
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Sucks Terry. You should have seen Erica. I was beside myself she was hurting so badly...
Sounds horrible. Glad they were able to finally stop it.
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Same here. Also I second Soresto for the pets. Seems to work for our lab and the cats.
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Good thread with lots of good info. We back up to the woods and have deer in the yard every day and night. Not unusual to have 3 or 4 on me after raking leaves. Lost a black lab to Lyme disease (kidney problems) a couple of years ago. I'm gonna look into some of those sprays. Thanks guys.
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NYSDOH did tick surveys in the County Park that borders the Irondequoit Bay wetlands for a number of years a few years ago. Sampling consisted of walking a transect while wearing a light colored "apron", then collecting the ticks. Every walk yielded many ticks. A friend who lives adjacent to Powder Mills Park had a daughter who tested positive when they finally convinced the Doctor to check, and they are constantly finding them. All high deer population areas due to No Hunting in residential areas.
The latest issue of Adirondack Life has an article about ticks, according to NYSDOH all North Country counties yielded ticks and all pools were positive for Lyme. This is no longer a problem for Eastern NY and Connecticut, it is all over NYS. The article also says that due to the warm fall conditions, this spring will be particularly bad. Too bad stink bugs can't be trained to eat Ticks!!!
AS soon as I menti9oned this to my Doctor on the last visit, he had the PA call the lab to see if they could run my blood samples for Lyme, he said for the amount of time I spend outdoors, it was logical to do it every time and he added it to my order form for my regular work. Too little is defined yet, and there are too many people suffering long term effects to not be vigilant.
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I can confrim it is very much a problem in CT.
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I live in eastern Rensselaer county and I have already had one biting me on Tues and took one off my dogs face yesterday. I’ve had Lyme twice in past years. The tickss are out this early.
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bad here in Michigan too.last year my daughters school had to have indoor recess the whole spring because the playground was full of ticks.counted 20 on the slide.had 3 crawling up my truck door in the 5 minutes I was there waiting to pick her up.i tested positive for lyme disease on 2 of the 3 test they do for checking lyme disease. I dont even want to look for morels anymore because theres so many ticks.
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Ticks do not actually get Lyme disease from deer, as is commonly believed—rather, ticks contract it as larvae when they feed on infected mice. Deer ticks are common to the eastern United States and earn their name for commonly feeding on white-tailed deer. The pests use other large mammals, like pets, livestock, and humans, as hosts, as well. Though considered accidental hosts for ticks
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My daughter is a nurse in Oswego ny they had 4 cases of ticks this week , but non were Lyme,
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I raised whitetail deer for over 10 years, many of which were very tame, u could pet and scratch ears ect. And never once seen a tick on them. I constantly checked, and never seen any. Their hair in summer is very (oily ) so to speak, after petting for a while, your hand when u wash it was very tacky.
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east coast deer are full of ticks ,so is any animal that spends time in the outdoors here
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Anything for dogs?
I use the Advantix. Haven't found a tick attached to my dog since I started using it 5 years ago.
Here's another tip, don't buy it from PetMeds or whatever they call themselves, buy it from Amazon and save yourself almost 60 bucks on a years worth.
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I also had a lab whose kidneys shut down and died as a result of Lyme. Called lyme necrosis.
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I have used the Sawyer product for many years until I came across Insect Shield ...now they have handy easy packs..I have several turkey hunting outfits treated .
https://www.insectshield.com/
https://www.insectshield.com/ISYOC.aspx
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Insect shield.com is the only way to go,I have been using there clothing now for 5 years.I tell every one about them.I use there socks,pants and shirts or you can send your clothing to them also.Just from wearing there socks can reduce ticks by 60 or 70 %.
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get some sawyers tick spray it kills them dead. spray all your hunting clothes and fishing let them dry and then its good for 6 washes. been using it for 5 years kills them dead. wal mart carries it i get mine at dicks bigger spray bottles. no more ticks on me or in me. not for the skin just your clothes.
This. I treated all my hunting clothes this year with Sawyer's permethrin and never had a tick on me after. Prior to treating I would sit on watch and flick them off my pants legs by the dozen. They are horrible up here.
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When i was a young man there was no tick problems never heard of em until the late 70s what caused the tick BOOM?
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Back in the 70's my aunt and uncle lived in northport long island in a rurul area and us kids were were always crawling with ticks biteing us.. But back then there was no emergency for medical treatment or antibiotics. Just a little peroxide and a bandaid... :-\
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https://www.healthspiritbody.com/lyme-disease-treatment/ (https://www.healthspiritbody.com/lyme-disease-treatment/)
From the article above,one reason lyme is so difficult to cure:
The culprit behind Lyme disease is Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterial infection proven to respond most effectively to antibiotics doxycycline and amoxicillin.
However, Borrelia burgdorferi can exist in morphological forms, including spirochetes, spheroplast (or L-form), round bodies, and biofilms. When conditions are considered unfavorable for the bacteria, it has the ability to morph into the dormant round body, then hide in a biofilm form. When conditions are favorable, however, it can shift back to its spirochete form.
While conventional antibiotics can treat some forms of the disease, they’re not effective in treating ALL forms, often times failing to produce a long-term cure.
But, new research suggests a long-term treatment may be just around the corner.
A recent study published in the European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology revealed that stevia, a sweetener, and sugar substitute, has been found to terminate late state or chronic Lyme disease.
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It also seems lyme has been around a while.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46558926/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/iceman-may-have-suffered-lyme-disease/#.WrLW8KwkrIU
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Ticks become active once the temperature rises above 32 Fahrenheit. Picking up ticks in the winter is not unusual.
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I did not know that!
I found this very interesting
Ticks do not die off during the winter months. To survive the cold and snow, most ticks find shelter in leaf litter and are dormant until spring. However, adult deer ticks (black-legged ticks) remain active year round. You or your pet could pick up a hitchhiker anytime the air temperature is close to freezing or above and the ground isn’t frozen or snow covered. In freezing weather, deer ticks hunker down under the snow in leaf litter, on firewood or a tree trunk, and come out during warm spells. If you find a tick inside during the winter, it probably hitched a ride on firewood
https://www.canidae.com/blog/2015/06/how-weather-plays-a-role-in-tick-outbreaks/ (https://www.canidae.com/blog/2015/06/how-weather-plays-a-role-in-tick-outbreaks/)
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Good topic...bump
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I used to stop putting flea and tick on my dogs in the winter until a few years ago. He was bitten in January during a goose hunt and ended up with Lyme and Anaplasmosis, luckily he recovered but now they are treated 12months out of the year!
I read an article recently that expanded on the explanation of ticks NOT dying off in the winter, especially a brutal cold winter where they simply hunker down and "hibernate" until spring. It suggested that the best weather to combat ticks is actually a winter with lots of large temperature swings because they will deplete all of their energy emerging from the ground cover when its warm and then retreating when it gets cold again and this increased activity level actually kills more of them off sustained than freezing temps.
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In addition, ticks can carry 3 or 4 other serious diseases besides Lyme disease - - including one that makes you allergic to eating meat.
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Went out back to sight my rifle in, six of the little buggers climbing up my pant leg. I have two golden retrievers who both have been on doxycycline and have lymes disease. It’s getting out of hand here in Syracuse.