How to treat lice.

[herofan]

I'm curious, how does everyone here treat lice in cattle? We manually spray them from time to time, but I'm assuming this might not be doable for people with large herds. Is there an easier way?

 

[dun]

The only time we start to notice is in real late winter, then we just pour them with Boss

 

[Alan]

Here they show up early spring, I use a pour on wormer. It has always worked well.

 

[Texas PaPaw]

Use a pouron wormer in combination with cheap permethrin fly tag. Pour on when processing in fall/winter and apply fly tag that keeps them down all winter.

 

[herofan]

How often does the pour-on have to be applied?

 

[dun]

How often does the pour-on have to be applied?

We jsut do it once in the spring/late winter

 

[denvermartinfarms]

I deworm orally and with pour on in October and April, I never have lice problems pouring twice a year, but like dun said, you might get by just once a year.

 

[Texas PaPaw]

How often does the pour-on have to be applied?

Just do it once also. Have done some in the last 2 months and by using the pour-on/fly tag combo should be good until summer.

 

[Alan]

Pour on in spring, injectable in fall.

 

[snake67]

Didn't do the cows last year and saw no issues at all

Second year in a row we did this with cows.

Sheep we use a pour on - Licex (brand name) - do them once and hit them again in 14 days - good for the year.

Bez