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Frontline for mites and/or lice
John:
It's been over 6 weeks since we went thru all the birds with Frontline. Today was a beautiful day here in mid-Michigan with lots of sun, very little wind and a high in the upper 30s, so David and I moved the LF lavenders to a different coop to make room for started chicks. Anyway, I figured it would be a good time to hit them again with Frontline and we did but the I was surprised that I didn't see one mite on any of the birds. Maybe it lasts much longer than 30 days on chickens.
I spray it into an eyedropper bottle and use it from there on the birds.
Tailfeathers:
Over 7 weeks now and still NO mites!!
I washed 16 birds today (well, actually it was yesterday now) for the show and no sign of anything. Looked over a bunch of others when deciding which ones to take and nothing on them either. I am one happy camper!
John, what's %% of Fipronil on that 8.5oz bottle that you have? I believe it was about 10% on the Pronyl I got in the tubes.
God Bless,
Royce
greeneggsandham:
Does anyone think the frontline spray would work on scaly leg mites?
Max:
The last time I sprayed was November and still no mites...
Beth C:
I hit all of mine about 2 weeks ago but found no lice or mites on any of them. When I had that bad outbreak I was treating them once a week, then once a month, now I'm down to quarterly. I found a few last fall, not bad, and hit them hard. I'm hoping I'm ahead of them at this point and can stay there if I keep spraying. So far the UltraShield EX & Frontline are working, but I bought some Spinosad for my tomatoes (if this stuff kills stink bugs I'm buying stock in the company) and I may spray the coops, too, just to catch anything that might be resistant.
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