gunnnie wrote:Growing up in the bush/scrub of FNQ, we always had hassles with cattle ticks and the little scrubticks or 'jiggers' as we used to call them.
Mum cooked with garlic and we would take Vit B tablets 2-3 times a week. Seemed to cut down on the frequency of getting a tick. Old wives tale maybe, but it seemed to work.
Another trick I was brought up with back home, was to rub Vicks on the hem of my jeans or shorts and also on the top of my shoes. I did this whenever I went scrub on exercise over the past 12yrs with the Green-Machine. Especially to Shoalwater Bay TA, that place is a friggen nightmare for ticks. The Vicks helped keep them at bay.
bigrich wrote:gunnnie wrote:Growing up in the bush/scrub of FNQ, we always had hassles with cattle ticks and the little scrubticks or 'jiggers' as we used to call them.
Mum cooked with garlic and we would take Vit B tablets 2-3 times a week. Seemed to cut down on the frequency of getting a tick. Old wives tale maybe, but it seemed to work.
Another trick I was brought up with back home, was to rub Vicks on the hem of my jeans or shorts and also on the top of my shoes. I did this whenever I went scrub on exercise over the past 12yrs with the Green-Machine. Especially to Shoalwater Bay TA, that place is a friggen nightmare for ticks. The Vicks helped keep them at bay.
Garlic keeps blood sucking vampires away, so it should work for ticks I reckon there’s some truth in it , a lot of the old natural remedies do work
Good old RID that's what I use rub it all over ya and when you get home have a good hot bath I fed my dogs garlic for years '' may have stopped a few ticks and fleas but still got them but they had a shiny coat we have a little mongrel up here called '' Scrub Itch '' its a little orange mite that buries into your skin and makes you scratch like all get out that's why roos nuts hang so low it's from scratching scrub itch or that's what they tell me anyway what I have found to ease them and prevent them was blend ginger up to a liquid and mix it with Vaseline use metho to thin then rub it on don't get in eyes or on nut bag
Agent Orange maybe kills trees to .Nah probably iodine based something iodine alone will stop the itch but who wants to look like a Hari krishna for 4 days ''orange'' spelling is a little wobbly
on_one_wheel wrote:Suddenly south Australia isn't looking so bad.
I've never had a single tick here.
Isn't it amazing that we can dose our livestock for fleas, ticks, mites, flies, fungus ecc but there's seemingly nothing for humans except worming tablets.
Bring back the good old days
brett1868 wrote:I brought at least 9 home with me from a recent trip to the bugout, the little buggers certainly provide weeks of uncontrollable mad scratching adventure. Managed to remove all intact apart from 2 that lost their heads in the process. Haven't been feeling the best since getting home but put that down to flu, might hit the Dr for a blood test though just to be sure to be sure.
COLLECTOR 1 wrote:Where did you get the "tick key"...never seen one before but I bet they work well
Blr243 wrote:I bet the ticks hate those tools To them it must feel like being hit with a big heap of chain being dragged through a paddock by a couple of d nines