Ticks

[wolc123]

Anyone seeing any on the deer this year ?   I just completed skinning my fourth one and have yet to find a tick on one.  Two of those were from an Allegheny county town, where I have found a few while skinning deer in years past.  The other two were from an Erie county town, where I have never found any.  One from each spot was a 6 month old (bb and doe) and were skinned the day after they were killed.  The other two were mature bucks that were skinned over a week after they were killed (hung with hides on and temperature in the mid 30'3 to low 40's).  Maybe the colder weather this fall has kept them in check.  Next weekend, I will probably head up to the Northern zone town where I found hundreds on the last one I brought home.   I will never bring another one home from there, to process myself, for that reason.  I will have to ask the processor if they find any.      

  

Edited November 28, 2018 by wolc123

[Paula]

My deer had a huge tick crawling around on her

[Hock3y24]

Hang them for 2-3 days and you’ll see the ticks, I pulled 40-50 off a buck and doe I had hanging in the garage. Put them in paint thinner and they died in 3-5 seconds.

Edited November 28, 2018 by Hock3y24

[The_Real_TCIII]

Mine hung for a week and I didnt see a tick or a ked. Chautauqua county

[moog5050]

Mendon is loaded.  Pygmy quickly identified "a few" on his double.  lol

[BowmanMike]

I dont think the ticks are gonna hang on to a dead body for a week. So unless you skin them right away there is no way of knowing.

[Steuben Jerry]

I've rarely found ticks on my deer, maybe a dozen times, and not in a few years. I do see keds on just about all my deer though. Maybe they're big ticks or probably I can't tell the difference, lol. 

Two years ago I was driving back from dropping deer at the processor, and kept feeling a tickle on my neck like a tag from the shirt or something. After a few times, I moved the rear view mirror to see what it was, and saw a ked crawling right by my hairline. Was glad there was no one around to see my reaction although there may have been some swerving. 

[NFA-ADK]

I did not find any on my ADK buck.  On LI they are rampant!  Basically all deer on LI are infested. 

[grampy]

31 minutes ago, moog5050 said:

Mendon is loaded.  Pygmy quickly identified "a few" on his double.  lol

I carried a couple home from Mendon last year!......lol

I noticed a few on my buck from last week. But not as many as I've seen on deer in the past. 

Have not found one on me this year either. But I was really strict about keeping everything treated with Sawyers.

[Al Bundy]

All deer I or hunting partners take are infested with ticks. This for the last 5+ years. I have found a few crawling on me this year but have not had one attach yet.  

[land 1]

some areas have lots of ticks others none or very little

[landtracdeerhunter]

Found a few on a Newstead deer. 

[Steuben Jerry]

This showed up on my Facebook page, kind of semi related. I wonder if the low density tick areas correspond with high density opossum areas.

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/know-opossums-eat-virtually-ticks-yard/

 

[UpStateRedNeck]

I found 1 tick on the doe I shot opening day.  Last year the doe i shot on October 1 was loaded, just crawling with them.  The my dad and I were tracking a wounded buck on November 3rd, I pulled 40 plus ticks off him.  Then we had that hard freeze weekend Nov 11th, haven't had a tick on me since.  Not one.  I think there was a high of 10 both those days and it just decimated the tick population up there.

[The_Real_TCIII]

I dont know what it is but Ive encountered one tick in the last 40 years and it was when I took a walk into Dann Lake last summer. Before that I was 7 years old. I dont treat my clothes at all. Ive had a few on my deer but nothing terrible. Im lucky I guess!

[G-Man]

25 years of killing deer and butchering my own for 20 of them. 5 to 7 deer a year.and I have not found a tick on any..keds yes ticks no..  but the temps by me get gold at least a few days in negative degrees for day and nights. That is biggest factor I believe... though I have had friends in the area show me the ticks they have on their deer only to have to explain the difference between keds  and ticks to them.

[WWJD_Hunter]

The two deer I shot this season I didn’t see a tick on them.  I did got one on me during bow season.  First tick on me in many years of hunting and it freak me out. 

[tarheel95]

Buck I killed in early November was loaded with them. After the Thanksgiving cold snap in lower NY I took a doe that didn't seem to have a single one.

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[Paula]

I am a tick magnet! Lol.  I always seem to find them on me, I had one bounce off my face and land on my hand. Eww 

[E J]

When I first started hunting I didn't know the difference between a ked and a tick and always thought the deer were loaded with ticks when it was actually Keds. Shortly there after I figured it out and either way they both still give me the heeby jeebys. I used to turkey hunt in the fall in Potter county PA and on any warm drizzly day I would find Keds in my beard, it FREAKED me out so bad I wouldn't go in that weather any more!

[Steve D]

3 hours ago, Paula said:

I am a tick magnet! Lol.  I always seem to find them on me,

Biz has a remedy:

 

[BizCT]

Buck I killed in early November was loaded with them. After the Thanksgiving cold snap in lower NY I took a doe that didn't seem to have a single one.

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Southeastern NY is loaded with them. Before I started treated clothes with Permethrin, I’d pull 20-30 off my clothes easily on warm hunting day. 99% deer ticks and the random dog tick


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[Hock3y24]

Just did a euro mount for a friend just over the border in PA, 6 ticks just on the head.