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Frontline for mites and/or lice
Tailfeathers:
Almost FIVE weeks now and still no sign of any bugs at all. I am elated! ;D
God Bless,
Sharon Yorks:
I actually have a negative report, but it could have been a fault of mine. On February 5th, I treated all of my birds with Frontline, putting a drop directly on the skin at the base of the neck, one at the base of the tail, and one around the vent area. After rereading John's post again, I realized he said 4 drops for LF. My rooster Thor had them pretty bad so I actually DID give him 4 drops the first time.
I was looking him over a couple of days ago (3 weeks after treatment) and found he had a lot of little red mites on his right shoulder again. An even larger area than before. We retreated again, this time making sure everyone got 4 drops directly on the skin and Thor and a couple of my larger birds got 5 drops. We also made sure to gently shake the bottle around before putting it into the eye dropper, just in case I didn't have it mixed up well enough the first time. I just now checked for an expiration date and can't find one, but it was a brand new bottle that I had just ordered so that shouldn't be an issue.
Any ideas?
Birdcrazy:
Sharon, You aroused my curiosity, I looked on my bottle of frontline that I just bought. there was no expiration date that I can find on it.
Sharon Yorks:
I'm wanting to think I saw one somewhere, maybe on the clear plastic that was wrapped around it before I opened it, but I can't remember. I'm usually good about checking for things like that. I probably did, just don't remember. I'll check a new bottle at the pet store or at the poultry show this weekend to see if that's where it is...although that would be a stupid place to put one because you would never know when it was outdated after you opened it and forgot what it said. I'm sure I...okay, no I'm not. I'll find out where they put it and let you know.
Tailfeathers:
I didn't use the bottle type but rather the stuff that comes in a box and a pack of 3 "tubes" for dogs. I got the "Pronyl" which is a knoeck off of Frontline but has exactly the same ingredients and percentages. I also got the dosage for the largest dogs. Over 100 pounds if I remember right. So my dosage was probably stronger.
Still no mites. ;D
God Bless,
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