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    The place where I hunt in south head, kaipara, the fallow are infested with them and I've found them on me properly latched on. Apart from the odd hallucination I'm in perfect health.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phillipgr View Post
    Apart from the odd hallucination I'm in perfect health.
    Librarians will do that to you Phillips.
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    Quote Originally Posted by phillipgr View Post
    The place where I hunt in south head, kaipara, the fallow are infested with them and I've found them on me properly latched on. Apart from the odd hallucination I'm in perfect health.

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    Those wernt ticks, those were children and you shouldnt take your rifle to a petting zoo Phil
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    I do know that you never ever pull them off as the head will usually stay embedded and then set up an infection site of its own. They will drop off voluntarily if smothered in Vicks cream.
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    a drop of meths does the jobbie
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    Ah, yes, forgot about meths...
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    East coast NI is lousy with them, being hotter and drier. Meths is the go, no nasty infections

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    allways had heaps on pigs I have caught/carried. dont seem to bite just crawl around and be annoying. have a shower and they just fall off

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    Quote Originally Posted by 338 View Post
    Have shot hares with up to 5-6 of these bastards hanging off their head and ears. Some farms are worse than others
    The last couple hares I shot had a couple of the ticks. I occasionally fell them on my dog and rip them of, we do treat him for fleas and ticks as well.
    If i could have a full time job shooting pests i'm up for over time.

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    Where I grew up the neighboring farm was a deer farm. There was times of the year ticks were horrendous. Not only on the dogs but the cows as well.
    My old Golden Lab, you could see them on his eyebrows. So it was almost a daily even to take them off. They never seemed to do him any harm....well maybe they affected his hearing at times!

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    Yeh we get em bad on our cattle and ponies. Farm had a history of bad management before we bought it and they're impossible to get rid of from the property but control on animals is simple, although costly.

    Pig lice and tics are completely different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hunt4life View Post
    Yeh we get em bad on our cattle and ponies. Farm had a history of bad management before we bought it and they're impossible to get rid of from the property but control on animals is simple, although costly.

    Pig lice and tics are completely different.
    A burn would sort them ?(on the property not the animals)
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    Can't mate. Right next to ranges. We manage them with ivomec as best we can

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    In the UK ticks can transmit Lymes Disease to both dogs and humans...do not know if it is New Zealand. Just googled it and it appears not to have been reported in NZ.
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    Mikee, did your dogs pick those up from the F&G ponds area where we sometimes chat, or elsewhere?

 

 

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