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Cydectin and such on cattle

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rrlund

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I saw that modified paintball gun that's available now to shoot insecticide on cattle. It looks like the only thing FDA approved to use right now is for flies. They said other things would be released as they received approval.
I've use a big syringe to shoot Cydectin on a ratty looking old cow,but I've thought about using one of those super soaker squirt gun and just try walking around them as they're at the feeder.
Anybody ever come up with another way that doesn't involve running the whole bunch through the chute and pouring them? Mine have been doing an awful lot of rubbing and have a few bald spots. I hate to have parasites bleeding them dry right before they calve.
 
2 gallon sprayer with cows in a tight pen put enough in for the group. Spray them then keep them in the pen for just a few minutes to move around and rub on each other in case ya might have missed 1 it can get enough from the others for the lice. I have did it for the last 3 years and it has worked and I had a vet tell me that it would work.just like spraying pigs.
 
The cheapest and simplest way is to buy a 5 liter jug of cheap generic ivomec pour-on. Should not cost more than $80. Carry the jug and walk thru the cows and squirt 50 cc's on each cow. Even with waste it shouldn't cost but $1.00 per cow. 40 years ago we sprayed with various insecticides, but you have to totally soak the animal.
 
Randy,

I use Cydectin for deworming my cattle at least once a year (some of them get it twice). Cydectin has a really cool "gun" that allows you to shoot out a pre-measured amount of dewormer based on your estimated weight of the cattle. It draws the medicine out of the bottle (I think its about 2 gallons).

I usually run them through the chute to apply the dewormer, but sometimes I just shoot it at them while they're around the feed bunkers. I think that Cydectin sells the "guns" but my Co-Op gave one to me a couple of years ago.

It works really well. I keep it cleaned out and lubricated with household cooking oil (Wesson Oil).

I use a pump sprayer with diluted spray for flies, but I might try a pour-on fly spray this year and use the Cydectin gun.

Tom in TN
 
We use the bottles with the built in measuring device on the calves when we wean. We run them on the scale so there's no guess work and pour it on. I've got one of those guns that hooks up to the bottle with a hose but darned if I can get it to come out of there like it should.
That outfit that shoots balls out of it like a paintball gun looks like it's going to be just the ticket as soon as they get other products approved for use with it.
 
That rubbing and bald spots are probably due to lice.
I used those PJ WHite rubs for the first time this year for fly control and I'm not seeing a lot of lice this winter. I bought them to help with a pink eye problem that was occuring even with vacinations for pink eye. I wonder if this is a bonus? I took the rubs down in the fall after fly season but the cows look good so far this winter and in the past they didn't.
 
My cows are tame. However, they do not like for me to walk through them with any kind of "sprayer" and spray something on them. They need to be locked up in order to do an effective job, otherwise, they scatter like flies.

There IS another way to control parasites on and in cattle. I've used this method now for three years and it WORKS! Use apple cider vinegar in the drinking water at a 1% solution rate. It's one of the best pesticides known to man and it is totally organic. There is NO residue that goes through the animal polluting and killing soil microbes. The cattle simply drink the solution and are immediately dewormed. Now, you will need to "force" them to drink it. There can be no other water source. It needs to be their only water source for 24 hours.

I was sceptical at first when I tried it. But it worked and I've continued to use Apple Cider Vinegar. It also is a wonderful fungicide. I use it on alfalfa for any fungal diseases such as Lepto Leaf Spot that develops during cold wet spring weather. The cost as opposed to buying a commercial fungicide is staggeringly less.
 
Easiest way I've found to worm cows yet is Safegard crumbles. I just dump a couple of buckets of it into the silage pit and mix it good with the loader bucket. The bigger animals eat more, and the smaller animals still get a good dose at the feed bunk.....
 
All grocery stores here in Missouri have it. I just buy it by the gallon. If I tell the manager how much I need, he will have it for me in a day or so.
 
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