Cattle Lice Product

GoodMan55985

Hey All, Put the cattle in last week and already can see them licking themselves and some scratching. Can anyone reccommend a good product name to rectify this so I have the name when I go to the local agri store. thanks

Black Smoke

GoodMan55985 wrote: »

Hey All, Put the cattle in last week and already can see them licking themselves and some scratching. Can anyone reccommend a good product name to rectify this so I have the name when I go to the local agri store. thanks

Ask your man behind the counter, for a litre bottle of "liquid skyhook". He will know straight away, what you want.:cool:

Milkymoos

GoodMan55985 wrote: »

Hey All, Put the cattle in last week and already can see them licking themselves and some scratching. Can anyone reccommend a good product name to rectify this so I have the name when I go to the local agri store. thanks

Ectopsec or renegade will do the job fine.Spot-on red is good aswell but cant be got at the moment.

Make sure you do ALL the animals in the shed on the same day. You might have to do them again in about 3 weeks to clean all the lice that would have hatched in the days following first treatment. No pour-on product will last for the whole winter so be prepared to treat a few times.

simx

Milkymoos wrote: »

Ectopsec or renegade will do the job fine.Spot-on red is good aswell but cant be got at the moment.

Make sure you do ALL the animals in the shed on the same day. You might have to do them again in about 3 weeks to clean all the lice that would have hatched in the days following first treatment. No pour-on product will last for the whole winter so be prepared to treat a few times.

+1 on ectospec and its resonable prie too

6480

GoodMan55985 wrote: »

Hey All, Put the cattle in last week and already can see them licking themselves and some scratching. Can anyone reccommend a good product name to rectify this so I have the name when I go to the local agri store. thanks

i would shear along their backbone before treating them its half the battle with lice when u shear them

babybrian

for years we have been trying to find the best lice treatment, tried renegade, endospec, spot-on and anything else we could find but found most of them to be only okay until 2 years ago we tried tactic(or taktic)not sure of the spelling. It seems to work way better than the rest and is cheap too but you need a quad sprayer or knapsack to put it on and give the animals and good shower, you would be amazed how much you have to put on them(they look like they have come in out of the rain) but/animal its cheap when diluted.
Good luck in killing them little buggers

ootbitb

babybrian wrote: »

for years we have been trying to find the best lice treatment, tried renegade, endospec, spot-on and anything else we could find but found most of them to be only okay until 2 years ago we tried tactic(or taktic)not sure of the spelling. It seems to work way better than the rest and is cheap too but you need a quad sprayer or knapsack to put it on and give the animals and good shower, you would be amazed how much you have to put on them(they look like they have come in out of the rain) but/animal its cheap when diluted.
Good luck in killing them little buggers

that sounds like a similar product to tixol which was available until a few years ago. think it was banned though I may be wrong.

GoodMan55985

6480 wrote: »

i would shear along their backbone before treating them its half the battle with lice when u shear them

Thanks all for your replies. On shearing along their backbone, I have never done this. Can you buy a cattle shears in the agri stores or online. Anyone know a good value one you got? thanks

MfMan

ootbitb wrote: »

that sounds like a similar product to tixol which was available until a few years ago. think it was banned though I may be wrong.

It's quite similar, but is not banned, AFAIK. I got a bottle last year, cost c. €80 I think. Mix it up in the budget with water and give them a good spray. Nearly impossible to kill lice IMHO though, regardless of treatment or product; they would need at least a couple of dressings every winter.

Rovi

GoodMan55985 wrote: »

Thanks all for your replies. On shearing along their backbone, I have never done this. Can you buy a cattle shears in the agri stores or online. Anyone know a good value one you got? thanks

These are the sort of thing:
http://www.magentadirect.ie/products.php?cat=81
http://www.mullinahonecoop.ie/catalog/partlist.aspx?CategoryID=270

None of them are 'cheap', but they're an excellent management tool.

Besides clipping along the backbone, we'd also clip tails. It kept cattle much cleaner over the winter.

SoJoMo

Did I read here or somewhere that the best to use is sheep dip

ootbitb

Mullinahone have a very poor website, no prices and nowhere to register.

kay 9

We have always used Youngs Pour-on with good results. Always found the rest of them useless. As for them spot-ons, they should be taken off the market.http://www.greenscountrystore.co.uk/youngs-flypor-pour

GoodMan55985

kay 9 wrote: »

We have always used Youngs Pour-on with good results. Always found the rest of them useless. As for them spot-ons, they should be taken off the market.http://www.greenscountrystore.co.uk/youngs-flypor-pour

Hey thanks for this website, when you looking to order, it has these fields that you have to fill in. What do you put in for these values when ordering from Ireland.

Herd/Flock Mark
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Holding Number (CPH)
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