Long socks, long pants. Tuck your long pants into your socks. Check every nook and cranny when you shower.

Just pick them off before they bite

Our birds freerange and we fenced most the farm off from the deer who are the prime culprits for hauling ticks around. The birds eat any they find and the lack of deer highly limits our numbers.

My brother trimmed trees at a Christmas tree farm one summer and fall. When he got home each night he picked ticks off his legs and other places for about 30-40 minutes. Ticks will rule the cockroaches when we’re gone.

We keep doxycyclene on hand