>>5119158
The prodigal son (raper of ticks) has returned!

>>5119158
Hedgehogs are becoming endangered. Leave them the fuck alone and stop using them for your shitty tik tok click bait.

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>>5119165
It's tick tweezers time, indeed. Here's what I removed yesterday on a single hedgie!

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And then you also have the "smaller" ones; they are on an earlier life cycle.

>>5119168
shut your whore mouth you fucking newfag

>>5119179
make me, fucking obvious plebbit cunt

>>5119201
>newfag going down her list of buzzwords to use and try and fit in
grim

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My father gifted me a trail camera for christmas, so now I also have all sorts of cool hedgehogs clips.
Turns out they usually fight when they spot each other. They remind me of little autistic sumo wrestlers, they try to flip their opponent so it will ball up and lose the fight; it stays balled up upside down like a loser for a while.
Check this out.

I have nothing to add other than hedgehogs are neat and I am happy they exist.

please say there will be another orb made

>>5119175
>on a single hedgie
that's fucking disgusting, how much of their total blood volume do they lose to fucking parasites

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Did you ever want to see a hedgehog throwing up? Neither did I. Yet here we are.
>>5119791
Of course. Right now I need to remove more ticks. A lot more.
>>5119904
I have no idea, but keep in mind they're also ridden with fleas (which aren't the common fleas pets get).

>>5119582
turf war

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Some time ago I spotted a "new" kind of tick.
On hedgies they're usually either white or grey, with the occasional black make. Well, I assume they're male because they never feed despite being adults: the roam around on the hedgehogs and attach to females. I've twisted off quite a few couples too busy fucking.
So here is a red/orange one. Pretty interesting.

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>>5120568
>black make
male*
Another picture of the new tick.

Your caring for hedgehogs is merely a pretense. We all know your real autism is ticks.

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>>5120602
Not at all. Here is a proof: a video of the newborn, underweight hedgehog that I took in for winter otherwise it would have died (it wouldn't have been able to wake up from hibernation). I placed two plastic igloos in the room, insulated from the ground with nice fleece blankets so it can roll up and make a little nest but no, this one autistically keeps making its nest in the old thorn blanket that I left here just in case. Zero tick in sight, just a comfy hedgie staring at you.

>>5120915
>I love ticks so much I spent the winter cultivating them a new blood supply

>>5120956
The jewish US military breeds trillions of diseased ticks every year and the air force drops them all over the world together with other poison. Hedgehogs are innocent.

>>5120915
Is it still coming around for food or did it disappear or die some time after you released it?

Based hedgie protector

I could not touch that many ticks

>>5119158
don't they freak out when you handle them? how do you remove the ticks and fleas?

>>5121082
Not him but from occasionally meeting hedgehogs surrounded by cats when walking at night, their main threat response seems to be staying still and huffing loudly.

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Last night I found a male tick. As I said, it wasn't attached, just wandering on the hedgehog, looking for a female.
>>5121068
I'm still keeping it for a bit. Now that the other hedgehogs are coming back, I'll release it in a week or so.
>>5121082
>don't they freak out when you handle them?
They usually don't mind too much. Most of them get used to it. You just need to be gentle and avoid sudden moves and sounds, since they're extremely jumpy.
>how do you remove the ticks
With a tick twister. The best model I've found for hedeghogs is the O'Tom tick twister: the hook is quite compact, it allows me to easily get it between all the spikes.
>and fleas?
A much harder subject. I refrain from using Spot-on flea and parasites treatments for kittens, as it would require spilling it on their back (where they can't lick it) and hedgehogs have a somewhat fragile skin (and no fur on their back).
My usual trick is filling a baking dish with lukewarm water and dishwashing liquid, and holding the hedgehog above for a big or putting it in the dish. Since the dishwashing liquid breaks the water's tension, the fleas simply sink and drown.

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As soon as I put it in the jar with other ticks, it immediatly attached to the fatest white female and began breeding.
>>5121084
>huffing
They usually huff when they're annoyed and/or try to be intimidating.

>Hedgehog thread
>look inside
>Tick thread

>>5121179
try to do some art projects with the dead fleas too, maybe dry them after drowning them and then make a rattle or something

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>>5121186
Here's a hedgehog trying to skedaddle as I'm about to pick it up, thanks to the trail camera.

>>5121181
>it immediatly attached to the fatest white female
Based Architickt

>>5119175
After you've collected these ticks, do you burn them in a fiery pit? A flaming death is what ticks deserve.

>>5119168
How is removing ticks from an animal hurting them? Are you a tick?

>>5119201
Why do you love ticks?

>>5121697
He will succeed in making the tick orb and it will be even more disturbing than the original

>>5121697
he literally collects hundreds of them and wants to enclose them in transparent resin as an art project. there is a whole thread about it, so far it didn't work so well

>>5121181
>gathering for the tick orb inadvertently results in a massive tick orgy before they all die
Horrifying.

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>>5121868

>>5119193
General apathy is always a great watch

And good work OP

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I've removed this on a single hedgehog, last name. It's fast, fatter than most and quite the skilled bully, charging everyone around food and winning as far as I can tell, so I named it Carpentus* in my taxonomy chart.

*after the boxer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Carpentier

>>5121944
Thank you, anon.
>>5121868
Many such cases! As you can see this in this pic, another black tick is going for one last round with the ladies before being frozen to death.

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Imagine scatching so hard that you fall over and look foolish. That must have felt so good.

>>5122626
How big are those black ones?

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>>5122649
The horrors (you) make me go through... I added a big fat one for reference.
They were only pretending to be dead and started moving when I breathed on them. I assume they react to co2 because it means a prey is near.

>>5122629
All that scratching and they still get infested with ticks. Sad!

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Now for something more pleasant, I managed to capture the start of the hedgehogs' courtship ritual.
The male will slowly circle the female, lightly brushing against it, while huffing/panting loudly (you can hear it 20m away). The female will rotate to keep facing the male. The circling can last half an hour or more. At some point, the female will stop facing the male and keep their spikes relaxed.
The male will then get behind and initiate hedgie intercourse.
The ritual can fail at any time, and the female will simply run away. It usually fails, as far as I can tell.

>>5122810
I think they scratch because of the fleas.

>>5119158
Are you The Hogfather?
I'm called the Hedgie Whisperer.
For whatever reason, hedgehogs like me and listen to simple instructions I give them after a bit of patient training.
Hedgehogs are based.

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>>5121697
>he doesn't know

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Last night was uneventful: it rained all night long, only one hedgie was hungry enough to crawl out and eat.
>>5123896
I've just ordered new bottles of resin to try and make a new orb by the end of the week, hopefully.

>>5123896
Can hedgehogs coexist with chickens or some other ground bird that eats ticks and will the bird eat ticks off the hedgehog?

>>5119158
How many did you keep indoors this winter?

>>5121389
>he doesn't know

>>5122629
always surprised by how flexible the pudgy bodies of these fellas are

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>>5124004
Indeed. Here's another one.
>>5123998
They wouldn't really coexist as hedgehogs are nocturnal animals. Even if they weren't, I don't think the chickens/ground birds would be able to feed on them.
>>5124001
I kept two. One passed away in january from a strange illness. I couldn't do much as there are no wildlife vets around there, and an urbanite vet would simply euthanize a hedgehog.
I've released the other a couple of days ago.

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Pretty intense fight last night.
There were also unsuccessful courtships. Pathetic.

>>5124318
you put out too many peanuts, they consider it a territory not an anomaly

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Turns out the postal service has been more efficient than usual.
On the last try with an orb, I tried multiple layers since the ticks end up floating. Some layers didn't cure right before I poured another layer, creating a weird mess. Therefore, I plan on making more layers, let's say 7, and let each cure 24 to 30h.
What do you think?
>>5124421
Don't worry, most of what you see are empty peanut shells from the previous nights/weeks.
I don't overfeed them.

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First layer has just been poured.
I tried putting the ticks in the mold before pouring the resin to help them stay down, but it failed. Most of them will float... and will float back if I push them down. The bubbles should go away when it's curing.

What the fuck is wrong with this mentally ill retard collecting ticks.

>>5124684
ultimately you need to totally pack a smaller spherical mold with ticks
totally packed, almost squishing
and then encase that in a slightly larger sphere

maybe do a tick cube inside a clear orb for the ebin saturn reference

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I checked on the resin hardening. I didn't move the ticks since last pick and look how they all shifted! Epoxy works in mysterious ways.
>>5124701
That's impossible, it would require tens of thousands of ticks.
>>5124700
Rude.

>>5124716
eat them like cereal

>>5124700
he's european, it's conservationism when he does it
>>5124701
>maybe do a tick cube inside a clear orb for the ebin saturn reference
nah he should build a skeleton out of tick resin and have the two initial orbs be the eyes
next he should make tick teeth one by one

>>5124716
did you give up on the clear coating? they'd probably still float, though

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>>5124940
Yes, it would have been a nightmare to clear coat them, especially since they're all frozen. I would have to wipe hundreds of ticks dry after taking them out, clear coat one side, flip each tick around, clear coat the other side, etc. Plus they didn't degrade at all after a year. Pic related is how they look right now in the previous orb. Some got red straight away, I assume it's because of the heat created while the resin is curing.
>>5124737
>two initial orbs be the eyes
Haha, I really like this idea but the orbs have a diameter of ~12cm, which would mean a giant skeleton.

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Just poured the second layer. I'll check a few times to make sure the ticks don't drift too much.

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Sorry about the lack of update, the past few days have been busy and the nights have been very rainy. Hedgehogs usually don't come out when it's pouring.
Back on the orb, I've poured the fourth layer a few minutes ago. It looks like it's coming out really nice, as far as I can tell: just a few bubbles (most of the ones in the pictures are from the resin being poured, they should go away), the ticks aren't turning red because of the heat since I'm pouring small layers.
So far so good, but we won't know until the whole orb is fully poured, cured, and out of the mold.

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Side view. We're almost halfway there. I'm making sure to wait 48 hours between each layer. I expect the whole thing to require 10 layers.

Did you ever get any reaction from tick-bombing your mayor's mailbox or whatever it was you did?

>>5127069
No, but I keep doing it regarless.
The most convenient system is to keep a jar for adult ticks, and another jar for the nymphs. I only "keep" the adults and throw away other jar.

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>>5120956
we all have a pet leech but does OP also feed the ticks himself?

Sorry for the bump.
The orb should be complete within a week at most.

>>5129356
sweet, I am ecstatick.

bump

>>5130843
>>5129680
Thanks. The final layer has just been poured. Final results in ~50h, when it's cured. I'm confident about this one, but it'll be the surprise when we'll unmould it.
I'd like to send it to one anon if it turns out decent (and if the shipping costs aren't pure theft).
Despite the european heat wave, hedgehogs are on a breeding/mating frenzy, these days. I can hear come of them huffing loudly when I'm trying to sleep.

>>5124684
omg. you're the tick guy. I remember you from years ago. you've been at it for ages.

>>5131164
omg

>>5130850
Update?

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>>5131816
I think it turned out pretty good!
The orb is clear enough, there are minimal bubbles, no curing mess like last time.

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The only issue remaining is that you can clearly see the different layers. I tried to circumvent this phenomenon by adding ticks before pouring and then more ticks after pouring, but most of the time they all float up nearly to surface level.

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And here's the orbs museum.
-first orb was a total mess, I poured all the ticks and resin in one huge pour. They all lumped, floated up and it bubbled like hell because of the volume of resin curing.
-second one was somewhat better with several layers, but something went wrong and some layers never cured. Even now, over a year after, the middle part is still a bit runny.
-third orb is therefore much better.
The first and third orbs are over 1kg each.

I'd like to come up with a random draw to send this third one to one anon, but how could I do it? And would (you) be interested?

>>5131844
Truly horrifying
Well done anon

>>5131841
>>5131842
Looks great top down at least.

>>5131844
good progress, nice, round juicy balls. soothes the soul.
the middle one...does it still smell? I can't imagine blood filled rotting ticks smelling too good...

>>5131844
You're sick in the head. 10/10. What if you did a bowling ball full of ticks with a hedgehog skull in the middle?

Thank you very much.
>>5131969
The middle one doesn't smell at all, but it will never fully cure.
>>5131980
I can't. Over here hedgehogs are a protected species. You can't own them, can't breed them, can't bring a dead one to be stuffed, and technically can't even interact with them. Therefore, it's unlikely to come across hedgehogs remains.
I only ever found one dead hedgehog and decided to bury it.

>>5131844
>random draw to send this third one to one anon
do want

>>5131844
for v4, consider
>super-long-curing epoxy
>transparent mold
>fill up with epoxy/ticks completely
>put lid on
>rotate the thing as ticks float up to keep them in the middle
t.never used epoxy

>>5132109
Any idea how I can implement this? It's not helping that the thread is now auto-saging.
>>5132122
Interesting but I don't think it's possible, as it would require rotating the thing for several hours, and it would likely bubble up like crazy. I've never seen a round epoxy mold with a lid, too, but please post a link if you find one.

>>5132214
>Any idea how I can implement this?
easiest way would probably be to set up something in google forms

>>5132214
>auto-saging
it's not, and the bumplimit is 250 iirc
the counters are dogshit, you need to f5 the entire page instead of just the update button

>>5131841
Excellent work anon, this is why I still come back to 4chan lol

>>5132515
Thank you very much, anon. I think I can maybe mitigate the outer layer marks by sanding it. It works on normies resign works, which are usually with flat surfaces. It should be quite delicate since it's an orb and sanding too much one spot would fuck up the geometry. I'll ask some friends if they have a sanding machine I could use.
>>5132234
Could you please elaborate? I'm sorry but I have no idea where to start/how it should go.
It would only be natural to give it back to you guys since you supported my silly idea.
>>5132256
Right, my bad. The threads are still timed and auto-sage after some weeks.

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