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Originally Posted by Gearhead
It looks like the thread has been hijacked for the discussion of ticks, so allow me to carry it on even further.
Wouldn't it be great if Fish and Game employed the help of hunters (an abundant resource) to sort of "immunize" the deer population while they are out hunting? What if there were paintballs made which contained the same stuff the vet injects into a dog (Permethrin?), and it marked the deer when it got hit so another hunter would see that it had been tagged. It would kill the ticks which were on it, and eventually drastically reduce the level of Lyme disease, especially because most of the deer would get tagged instead of one or two deer per season per hunter. I'd think that those who are averse to killing Bambi would be less averse to "Tagging" Bambi if it was effective.
It might even be kinda fun.
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I am in. Let me know if it comes to light.
The ticks are worse on moose than on deer, occasionally you will find a deer that has a bad cluster. Moose get it real bad.
The ticks most found on moose are Winter Ticks. They hang out at the end of saplings in huge clusters and when an animal or you brushes up against the sapling, they hold on. It can be noted on a moose as a very large patch of what looks like Eczema.
CAUTION, Some of these moose are really covered.
http://www.nrri.umn.edu/moose/inform...interTick.html
There is nothing, I mean nothing wrong with the meat on an animal with ticks on them. Although my vision does get blury from time to time.
