Dipmaster

r performance of many food providing livestock. Also a contributing factor to poor conception and fertility, milk production, poor quality hides and skin and quality product to sell in the market. Tick statistics as a parasite is impressive. Some 907 species of ticks are identified and named. Their only food is blood of which some ticks consume relatively vast quantities (several hundred times their unfed body weight) Some take 2 weeks or more to feed and often they feed only 3 times during their whole lifecycle, (which may take 7 years to complete. Ticks feed on mammals, including humans, birds and reptiles. Their geographical distribution ranges from sub-artic through equatorial antartic regions and habitats. They even survive submersion in seawater as the feed on seabirds diving for fish. Most importantly, ticks transmit pathogens (disease causing agents) to man and animal.