- Ticks are blood-sucking parasites that affect pets, livestock, and humans, transmitting serious diseases including tick-borne fever, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, and East Coast fever in cattle.
- Tick infestations in homes and gardens typically arise from contact with infested pets, wildlife, or vegetation.
- Professional tick control combines residual acaricide spraying, pet treatment guidance, vegetation management, and livestock area treatment.
- Tick control is especially important for residential properties with gardens, kennels, farms, game parks, and livestock facilities across Kenya.
- Regular preventive treatment throughout the year provides the most effective protection in Kenya’s climate, where ticks are active year-round.
- Bestcare Facilities Management provides expert tick control services for residential and commercial properties across Nairobi and Kenya.
Ticks are a significant pest and public health concern across Kenya, affecting not only livestock and wildlife but also domestic pets and the people who come into contact with them. Unlike many other pests, ticks are found outdoors in grass, vegetation, and soil, attaching to passing hosts — whether a dog walking through the garden, a child playing in long grass, or livestock grazing in a paddock — and feeding on blood for extended periods before dropping off to complete their life cycle in the environment.
In Nairobi’s growing residential areas where gardens back onto open spaces, parks, or riverine vegetation, ticks are a year-round concern for pet owners and families. For farms, game conservancies, and livestock facilities upcountry, tick management is a direct economic necessity — ticks transmit East Coast fever, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and other diseases that cause significant livestock mortality and production losses. Professional tick control addresses both the immediate pest population and the environmental conditions that support tick survival.
Types of Tick Control Services
Acaricide Spray Treatment applies a residual acaricide (tick-killing chemical) to lawns, garden beds, vegetation, kennels, and other areas where ticks are active, killing existing tick populations and providing residual protection.
Property and Garden Treatment covers the complete treatment of a residential or commercial property’s outdoor areas, including boundary vegetation, grass, kennels, and outbuildings.
Livestock and Farming Area Treatment provides acaricide dipping or spraying programmes for livestock pens, paddocks, kraals, and grazing areas to protect cattle, goats, sheep, and other animals from tick infestation.
Vegetation Management Advisory provides recommendations on grass height management, bush clearance, and garden design changes that reduce the tick burden on a property by eliminating the humid, shaded microhabitats that ticks favour.
Pet Treatment Advisory guides pet owners on appropriate veterinary tick prevention products for dogs and cats to complement environmental treatment.
Estimated Cost of Tick Control Services in Kenya
| Service | Unit | Estimated Cost (KES) |
|---|---|---|
| Tick inspection and property assessment | Per property | 4,000 – 10,000 |
| Residential garden acaricide spray | Per treatment | 7,000 – 20,000 |
| Kennel and pet area treatment | Per treatment | 5,000 – 12,000 |
| Livestock area treatment | Per acre | 8,000 – 25,000 |
| Vegetation management advisory | Per property | 5,000 – 15,000 |
| Follow-up treatment visit | Per visit | 5,000 – 12,000 |
| Annual tick control programme | Per year | 25,000 – 80,000 |
Note: Costs depend on property size, vegetation type, and tick pressure. Contact Bestcare Facilities Management for a site-specific quotation.
Contact Information
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Company Name | Bestcare Facilities Management |
| Phone | 0709 004 600 |
| Address | Mpaka Plaza, Westlands, Nairobi |
| info@bestcareservices.co.ke | |
| Website | www.bestcareservices.co.ke |
Contact us today for a free consultation and competitive quotation for your tick control requirements.