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With regular ticks, it's possible that longterm high rates of exposure causes anemia or heath issues from pathogens. I've simply never heard them cite blood los
by giantg2 3y ago
With regular ticks, it's possible that longterm high rates of exposure causes anemia or heath issues from pathogens. I've simply never heard them cite blood loss from ticks as the acute reason. Supposedly a cow can loose 3L of blood at a time and ticks average about .5mL per feeding. So you'd need 6k fully engorged ticks to loose that much blood to cause problems, and more to actually kill them. I would think most farmers would notice something like that pretty quickly.