The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Cattle => Topic started by: princesspiggy on July 11, 2011, 02:27:14 pm
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can sumone recommend a fly repellant for cattle? its our 1st summer with our heifers and our horse fly repellant isnt suitable as its too potent to go in food chain. (deosect)
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Our vet recommended Coopers Spoton.
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thanx rosemary, do harbros sell that? i will seek it out ;D ;D :wave:
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Garlic buckets are really very good. takes a couple o weeks before they really start to work but they really stop the flies bothering the cattle.
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If you're looking for a natural cure, I can recommend mixing tea tree and citronella essential oils with a carrier oil (like sweet almond) and misting them with that. You can also soak cotton wool in it and hang up round about stables and field shelters too.
No more than 10 drops of oil to 60ml of carrier oil though.
HTH
Karen :wave:
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when we had cattle we always put fly tags in their ears, can't remember the name, getting older senile dementia must be setting in :farmer:
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I always used to use Butox swish - its really easy to apply is very effective. Easy to put on to wriggling Jersey's!
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We've just bought garlic buckets - so thanks for the advice that they'll take a while to kick in - it says on the bucket it taints milk- we assume this is only a problem for food chain - calfy not going to wean himself is he? What do you think? No sign yet anyway - he's four months and we'd leave him another few yet - but wouldn't be end of world either - have bought a calf that was weaned at four months and she's fine x