Smells/ticks/fleas

What do you all use for spraying your yards? I live in upstate NY with the highest Lyme disease stats in the country. I use “yard odor eliminator” which has citronella in it so works great for you average bugs, but not ticks. Anyone use something different? All my dogs roam the yard so the smell can get pretty pungent. This stuff works great but that’s all it’s good for really.

 

10% Permethrin mixed with water in a pump sprayer 2x a month. I spray the ground, houses, dogs and kennel walls.

I use slevin dust in the bedding and on the kennel ground. 1x a month when I change out bedding up until October.

I also spray Home Defense spray 2x a year, once in the spring and once in mid summer. I spray around the entire perimeter of my property, perimeter of kennels and perimeter of dog houses.

I never have fleas or ticks. EVER.
Mosquitoes and biting flies are a different story. The flies tend to butcher my dogs ears around this time of the year. Was just going to try those cattle ear tags on a collar this weekend to see if that helps any.

That's my basic yearly protocol for pest control on the yard. We have a very bad Lyme Disease problem here as well. My dogs have never had ticks on them but I get 50 or so a year on me from hunting. Caught Lyme Disease more times in the last 5 years than I've shot deer in that time.