-Dipping or spraying with appropriate accaricides.
-Burning infested pastures to kill the eggs, larvae, nymphs and adult in the ground.
-Hand-picking from the animal’s body and killing them.
-Rotational grazing to starve larvae to death.
-Hand dressing using appropriate acaricide e.g. pygrease.
-Fencing of the farm to keep off the wild animals and livestock from neighbour.
-Ploughing pastures that is infested with tick to kill ticks.
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