Ticks Killing Fawns
Whitetail Deer
"Can Ticks Kill Fawns? As Ticks Get Worse, More Fawns Could End Up Like This Missouri Deer"
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I’m sure they can as they have been known to cause the death of moose hate those little bastards Lewis
Wish there was something we could do to help. Maybe some kind of medicine that works systemically in a feed that deer could eat.
I would be against ANY chemical preventative going into venison that I potentially could ingest. I know that there are "tick tubes" that have been marketed. It is a tube filled with a bedding of some kind that has been treated with permithrin. the concept being that deer mice are known tick magnets, and that the deer mice will taking the bedding material and use it for their nest. Essentially introducing the permithrin to the ticks killing them. I've said it a thousand times, the ONLY thing I fear in the woods are ticks.
Agree with the deer mice connection, almost certain that's how I got my Lymes couple years ago.
I have a little 2 acre place with thick windbreak on 3 sides. They were infested with deer mice until I took in a little orange tabby kitten. He became indoor /outdoor cat and focuses on deer mice, kills house mice but doesn't eat them. Devours deer mice however, would often get multiple kills in a day .. he's 6 now and has them under control at last.. then he comes in house and lies on my legs in recliner all evening..Sure that's how I got Lymes, even though Dusty does get tick treatment drops on neck regular.
Lymes sucks
"I would be against ANY chemical preventative going into venison that I potentially could ingest."
If you've ever had beef (any beef such as from a restaurant, grocery store, a cookout, etc...) you likely ingested such chemicals.
They kill moose in northern new england every winter. So yeah, ticks could definitely kill fawn deer.
Guinea fowl are said to eat ticks by the thousands, so I googled it and found that Penn State reviewed the science and found no support for the claims….
I am SHOCKED…. I’m tellin’ ya….
Tick tubes for the mice were reported to be the best thing going……
What Catscratch said is close to true, remove the word likely from his comment.
Well, unless you’re eating certified free-range, organic, you know damn well that chemicals have been applied at steps up and down the chain….
But that doesn’t diminish my dismay when I see guys asking about what chemicals they should be dumping on their food plots on a “hunting” site…..
So it’s just one more reason to treat the mice instead of the deer…. And personally, I am as opposed to letting domestic cats roam as I am to baits and chemicals for deer. There are plenty of smaller predators around to keep mice in check — bobcats, weasels, foxes, hawks, owls, snakes and well-behaved coyotes at the least— and cats are Hell on songbirds. They don’t have any more place in an ecosystem here than horses, burros, starlings, house sparrows, snakeheads or carp, so JMO if you want one around the house, keep it IN the house….
One of the best things we do on our place is prescribed burns notice a difference each time we do it.Lewis
My cat does kill 4 to 6 birds per year... Always sparrows or snow birds, did kill a finch once though. I rationalize it easily, he's killing fewer than if I used herbicides or pesticides. And he's neutered, doesn't stray from my property
"horses, burros, starlings, house sparrows, snakeheads or carp," Don't forget the pheasants!
What Lewis said.
I remember my dad talking about how all the farmers would get together and burn huge areas. He said they had very few ticks.
Around here the burns are done in March/ April. The ticks don't emerge til May. I haven't noticed any effect. I suppose there could be a slight impact if a very hot burn heats up their protected areas under the litter but for the most part the heat of a burn is above the level of the ticks.
cannot quote the articles, but there is some pretty good research that burned areas have significantly fewer ticks
No hard freeze anymore to kill the ticks . The northeast over a short period of time has got bad.
We have put coyote carcasses in the freezer and well over a month later pulled them out and when skinning them they had live ticks on them Lewis
Are the ticks spreading disease and killing moose and deer or some other way ? I am a big believer in Sawyer's Permethrin clothes treatment after getting Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite in December three years ago in VA mountains . Sawyers works ! We get ticks all winter on us while bear hunting , walking through Laurel usually .
The moose are dying from anemia and malnutrition some moose have been found with 90,000 ticks on them. The ticks have been around for a while but recently their numbers have exploded. The tick responsible is the winter tick or moose tick.Not good for sure.Lewis
Dang , crazy number of ticks
