Hi Merdeen
It’s most likely that the ticks in the feeding box fell off a hedgehog. It is very likely that they would have left some eggs in there. So I would give the feed box a good clear out – don’t use chemicals, but if it is wood, use boiling water to kill any eggs, paying particular attention to the joints in the wood, or any cracks. Otherwise the hogs could just pick up more ticks from there later on. If plastic, just give a good clean out. You could try Jan-Marie’s rosemary, etc. for cleaning, but I suspect that might be more of a deterrant than to actually kill tick eggs.
I had a similar problem in a feed box a while back – luckily wooden – and the boiling water seemed to work. Bear in mind that some hogs occasionally have a nap in feed boxes, between snacks, so could easily pick up new ticks there.
