The American Beagler Forum

While running this morning dogs found a hare, look at the ticks in this guys ears!!! Wish there was something I could put out in the running grounds to help with this.

do they "dust" themselves the way a cottontail does? We have found lime piles does a good job to help cottontails and it seems to help them with the ticks.

Sick or weakened hare are usually overtaken by disease and parasites. The wet weathers also puts them at a disadvantage this time of year, botflies are are probably laying their eggs on the open sores.
I'd suggest getting some sulfur blocks and spreading around. Sulfur is a great blood purifier and skin healer. jmho

Ran with some friends a few months ago and they caught a young half grown rabbit. It was layered with ticks.

Find the spots that they use to dust themselves. We find them alot on gravel/sandy roads. Sprinkle se7in dust in it and you will see a huge difference. I am sure they dust like cotontails do

Friend of mine had a running pen and he routinely sprinkled Seven dust in the places where the rabbits came out and took their dust baths.He said it kept the fleas and ticks off them.
Chickens do the same thing [dust baths ] to keep the lice off them and some Seven dust will do the same for them also.

I have watched for dusting spots, just got off the phone from talking to Norwester, neither of us have ever seen dusting areas up here were we run hare. I have seen them in my small pen here at the house but never in the wild. Maybe I will try the sulfur blocks. I have salt blocks out already.

Wish ticks was our problem. Coyote population continues to grow where I live. Not any good spots to call them in since its all mostly hills.

Lay a plastic drum on it's side on the ground..cut a small opening in each end big enough for a rabbit..fill the drum with kitty litter and seven dust....the hare will go in there and do their dust baths

Budd,

They may be using the gravel/dirt logging roads for dusting themselves.

Swampman wrote:Budd,

They may be using the gravel/dirt logging roads for dusting themselves.

I'm sure they are Rowdy, just not using the same spot that I can see anyhow. I'll check it out some more.

Ticks: I think this is why the Hare in lower Michigan have moved further north over the past 30 yrs.
I also believe that cottontail are immune to some of the different ticks and hare are not.

Diatomaceous Earth is similar to 7-dust, but cheaper, safer, and better!
50lbs for $25

DIXIEDOG wrote:Lay a plastic drum on it's side on the ground..cut a small opening in each end big enough for a rabbit..fill the drum with kitty litter and seven dust....the hare will go in there and do their dust baths

The beagle club I belong to has 150 acres fenced in and we do exactly what DIXIEDOG says. The hare use them and they work!

I think you could use a washed out Sheetrock bucket with cover and cut say a 8" square in each end. At the club we have them placed near the feeders.