Tick removal from the roe carcass.

[Bavarianbrit]

Ticks tend to cluster on specific body parts of roe deer, with heads and necks being common locations, chatting to my neighbour last night, he who only shoots the with head up or was it down? He pointed to the ticks now clustered around the nostril area on the buck he had shot an hour earlier that was now hanging to drain in his prep area. "See how they are all up at the nose they tend to do that after the roe dies"? I asked him what he did to remove them "i use a little camping gas bunsen burner, two quick sweeps around the nose and they are all gone".

 

[AlexD]

Thanks. The burner is a good idea that I never thought of.
I skin deer close to the house, and the ticks dropping off and infecting us later, is a repeating concern. Burning them off sounds easy.
I have not seen them migrating to the nostrils though, or any head or head down difference.

 

[Tim.243]

Thanks. The burner is a good idea that I never thought of.
I skin deer close to the house, and the ticks dropping off and infecting us later, is a repeating concern. Burning them off sounds easy.
I have not seen them migrating to the nostrils though, or any head or head down difference.

good for the wasps who wants to land on the deer you are just starting on!
A good quality hot air gun would work if you have power, mine melts plastic!

 

[Greenmist]

I tend to find them inside the legs, never seen any going to the nostrils, could gravity be a factor?

 

[VSS]

After hanging in the chiller for a week at 1.5°C or thereabouts, I have yet to see a tick that was sufficiently lively to present any kind of risk to anything.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I tend to find them inside the legs, never seen any going to the nostrils, could gravity be a factor?

Head was uppermost on the hook.

 

[Greenmist]

Head was uppermost on the hook.

Space ticks?????

 

[Bowland blades]

Some locations you would honestly turn the carcass into ash LOL ! Bothering with ticks before you get to your larder is a "WFT" finding odd ones and twos takes up too much time ! The ticks will come off with the skin

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Im only telling what he does.

 

[billm]

Thanks. The burner is a good idea that I never thought of.
I skin deer close to the house, and the ticks dropping off and infecting us later, is a repeating concern. Burning them off sounds easy.
I have not seen them migrating to the nostrils though, or any head or head down difference.

Yes I skinthemvery near our house and that's the worry I have