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Post by brittonfaith on Jul 19, 2008 6:13:41 GMT 12.75
Mike's new hunting companion trainee is a Walker crossblood. Real smart little gal and growing like a bad weed. I'm in charge of her while Mike's out on the water. Got a problem that maybe one of you all can give some advice on. Ticks around the doghouse. She's tied at her box near our house in the woods. We use tick spay, tick collars, 4-way tick drops, and keep the area she has to run raked/swept. Still pick 20 or more ticks off daily. Is the fact that she's a solid black dog the reason she gets so many ticks. I'd heard somewhere that dark colored animals are more prone to ticks, while lighter colored animals are more prone to fleas. Don't know if there's any truth to it though.
What have you used that works?
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Post by Paws on Jul 19, 2008 8:08:05 GMT 12.75
Mike's new hunting companion trainee is a Walker crossblood. Real smart little gal and growing like a bad weed. I'm in charge of her while Mike's out on the water. Got a problem that maybe one of you all can give some advice on. Ticks around the doghouse. She's tied at her box near our house in the woods. We use tick spay, tick collars, 4-way tick drops, and keep the area she has to run raked/swept. Still pick 20 or more ticks off daily. Is the fact that she's a solid black dog the reason she gets so many ticks. I'd heard somewhere that dark colored animals are more prone to ticks, while lighter colored animals are more prone to fleas. Don't know if there's any truth to it though. What have you used that works? Tweezers. Seriously, never needed anything other than the collars. You snapping them before you put them on her?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jul 20, 2008 12:03:05 GMT 12.75
After twenty-plus years of coonhunting behind me (Hell, I was coonhunting last night) all I ever used for both flea and tick control was powdered sulfur, or "flowers of sulfur". You can get it over the counter at a lot of stores.
I put a teaspoon in their food three times a week. The sulfur gets in their blood and the parasites find them unappealing. I've raised and campaigned numerous hounds, blueticks, Walkers, Black & Tans, and Redbones and never had a dog with tick or flea trouble. Even won the Florida State Coonhunt Cha,pionships a couple of times and placed high scoring bluetick in the Winter Classic once. (The Winter Classic is the grandaddy of all coonhunts; a fifteen hundred hound hunt selected by invitation only from the list of Purina Points Winners on the competition trail.)
Seriously, try the sulfur powder in their food.
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Jul 20, 2008 12:38:49 GMT 12.75
After twenty-plus years of coonhunting behind me (Hell, I was coonhunting last night) all I ever used for both flea and tick control was powdered sulfur, or "flowers of sulfur". You can get it over the counter at a lot of stores. I put a teaspoon in their food three times a week. The sulfur gets in their blood and the parasites find them unappealing. I've raised and campaigned numerous hounds, blueticks, Walkers, Black & Tans, and Redbones and never had a dog with tick or flea trouble. Even won the Florida State Coonhunt Cha,pionships a couple of times and placed high scoring bluetick in the Winter Classic once. (The Winter Classic is the grandaddy of all coonhunts; a fifteen hundred hound hunt selected by invitation only from the list of Purina Points Winners on the competition trail.) Seriously, try the sulfur powder in their food. Wow, you must have a nose and a half on you to be able to smell all those coons. ;D
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Post by Paws on Jul 20, 2008 14:18:50 GMT 12.75
Faith while these boys are bragging and pickin' I thought I'd tell you that for the house dogs all I ever use is Frontline. You squeeze it on their neck hump about once a month and that does it.
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Post by azslim on Jul 20, 2008 17:32:16 GMT 12.75
Also scatter cedar chips in and around the dog house. You can pick up a bag of them at the pet shop - at least you can out here.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jul 21, 2008 11:30:08 GMT 12.75
Tobacco dust around the yard, Seven-dust all over the yard, find a bunch of egrets to hang out around your place (they keep the cattle clean), but I still reccommend the sulfur powder. Freddie, I smells dem coons all de time when I drive into Tampa. Heck jist de other day I smelled one dat had dreadlocks and was trying to sell me a stolen laptop computer! He purely stank too!
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Post by brittonfaith on Jul 22, 2008 4:58:06 GMT 12.75
I use the Frontline on Ruthie and it does a good job. We tried it on Katie-did and it hasn't done squat. Next time I make it to TSC, I'll pick up some cedar chips and see what that does.
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Post by brittonfaith on Jul 31, 2008 10:15:51 GMT 12.75
Toby, ever go up to the Kenton Nationals?? Mike and his dad used to compete up there. Had a couple of double Banjo-bred walkers that didn't do too bad at Kenton according to the trophies the families shown me. My limit to dog knowledge is having an old farm dog that will keep an eye on the herd, bark when someone enters the barnyard, and keep the groundhogs out of the hay fields. The more Katie grows, the more I'm thinking she's not a walker, but a wieimeraner cross. Though, theres gotta be some coondog in her with a voice like hers.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jul 31, 2008 11:54:46 GMT 12.75
No, I only chased the UKC sanctioned events. The big three of them each year are the Winter Classic in Albany Georgia, Autumn Oaks in Missouri, and UKC World Championships hunt which is held in a new city each year. I been to the World hunt once when it was in Lexington, KY in 1992 and lost our cast n the first night. My best wins were the Florida state hunt in '93 & '95 first place wins with high scoring breed and third in the Winter Classic with high scoring breed out of fifteen hundred dogs back in '97.
I spent a good many years chasing them hounds. Never made much money at it, but it was a helluva lot of fun! ;D There are stilll Blueticks competing today with my old bloodlines in them. ;D
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Post by brittonfaith on Aug 2, 2008 7:14:16 GMT 12.75
It's taken a month, but I think we've finally got enough permethrin built up in her system from all the sprays, collars, baths, to take care of them ticks. She's only had four on her all week. We're also keeping the area lime dusted. Now if we can keep the copperheads out of her dog box, we'll all be happy.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Aug 2, 2008 14:37:18 GMT 12.75
Awrighty then, now go on out and get yerself a half dozen or more guinea fowl. Them little bastards'll chase every snake out of the area! Funny as heck watching them jump around a rattler; they make so much noise you can't even hear the snake buzzing at you! ;D
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Post by Paws on Aug 2, 2008 20:11:32 GMT 12.75
Awrighty then, now go on out and get yerself a half dozen or more guinea fowl. Them little bastards'll chase every snake out of the area! Funny as heck watching them jump around a rattler; they make so much noise you can't even hear the snake buzzing at you! ;D Exactly right! The guineas will wreak havoc on the snake population. Good idea there Toby.
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Post by Mars on Aug 3, 2008 3:02:46 GMT 12.75
Yep, I have 2 white guineas and 1 unknown type guinea warming up in the pen until they get big enough to go on snake patrol.
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