Ticks on Deer

mcevoyger

Shot a nice stag yeaterday and when I was cleaning him out I noticed quite a few ticks on him. What effect if any will they have on the carcass? I was carefull not to get them on myself because of the risk of lymes disease. Just curious.

foxshooter243

mcevoyger wrote: »

Shot a nice stag yeaterday and when I was cleaning him out I noticed quite a few ticks on him. What effect if any will they have on the carcass? I was carefull not to get them on myself because of the risk of lymes disease. Just curious.

They would have little or no effect on the animals carcass, the danger comes from your proximity to the ticks whilst cleaning and prepping the deer. The lyme disease that the tick may carry is picked up from small animals and is a bacterial infection , Deer can become infected with the disease but they dont carry large numbers of the bacteria, the disease isnt passed from one deer to the other or to humans and there have been no cases documented of anyone catching lyme disease from eating or handling venison..so basically its a case of keeping the ticks from hopping on to you.

jwshooter

handling a few hundred deer a season i do get bit a lot , i have noticed in the last few years my tolerance to tick bite has lessened . so much so i know when i have one one me .

wear gators ,roll up your sleeves in the field and wear a pvc apron and wellies when handing them in the larder .
bastards love me .

Deerspotter

jwshooter wrote: »

handling a few hundred deer a season i do get bit a lot , i have noticed in the last few years my tolerance to tick bite has lessened . so much so i know when i have one one me .

wear gators ,roll up your sleeves in the field and wear a pvc apron and willies when handing them in the larder .
bastards love me .

You probably always have your willie on?

jwshooter

Deerspotter wrote: »

You probably always have your willie on?

did you ever get one on your sack ,if your lying down looking at deer for long periods they get in around your belt.

i find fallow more than sika carry them ,its more to do with the ground than the deer themselves i would think

Deerspotter

jwshooter wrote: »

did you ever get one on your sack ,if your lying down looking at deer for long periods they get in around your belt.

i find fallow more than sika carry them ,its more to do with the ground than the deer themselves i would think

No, I have never had one on my sack! I have had one tick, it was near my belly button, and as previously stated on boards, I got lymes disease from it. I got the tick in Wicklow in deer country.
I was lucky to be in another EU country soon after and was quickly diagnosed and treated successfully with no further issues.
I was fairly knocked out for about three months though.

EPointer=Birdss

jwshooter wrote: »

did you ever get one on your sack

No beating around the bush there eh