Any experience with Frontline on chickens with mites?

[casportpony]

I've used the Frontline Drops on my Chickens for years, its relay effective and doesn't seem to affect the eggs at all. So much more effective that using permethrins, which when used in sufficient quantities to kill the mite's seems to make the Chickens feel ill. I can see from the posts Frontline is also quiet popular with other Chicken keepers too. But i'm realy keen to know if anyone has any experience with the spray in particular.

I think there are some people in the Northern Calfornia thread that use Frontline spray, so you might want to check that thread. I've only ever used the permethrin dust and have never noticed and adverse reactions to it, including times when used on small chicks or ill birds.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

...and did you know?..that Frontline carries a lifetime egg and meat withdrawal per FARAD.

Can you point me to where this is on the FARAD site? I looked, but couldn't find it, though I did find this excellent PDF. http://www.farad.org/publications/miscellaneous/LayingHensEggResidues.pdf


-Kathy

 

[aart]

Quote: Don't have a link, sorry..shoulda saved it, that site is hard to search.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Don't have a link, sorry..shoulda saved it, that site is hard to search.
Hard to search? lol, it really is! Anyway, if you do come across any fipronil residue links, please let me know so I can add the info to my collection.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

. Most such products have withholding periods of 3-4 months for meat and are not approved for use on dairy cows. Unfortunately little is known about the target-animal safety of such pour-ons.

• Never use on rabbits, particularly on young one, which seem to be particularly sensitive to fipronil.

• Never use on chickens and other poultry: they are much more sensitive to fipronil than mammals. However ducks and other aquatic birds tolerate fipronil better.

• Unless prescribed by a veterinary doctor, never use on dogs or cats products for livestock that are not explicitly approved for such use. There is a high risk of overdosing or of adverse drug reactions due toingredients that are not tolerated by pets or are even toxic to them.

Another fipronil link:
http://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Fipronil

-Kathy

http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/fiptech.html

 

[casportpony]

at 5x the recommended dose showed no adverse effects.

• Puppies treated twice with a spot-on at 2x the recommended dose showed no adverse effects.

• In a one-year study fipronil was administered daily to dogs in gelatin capsules at 0.2, 2, or 5 mg/kg. At doses of ≥2 mg/kg several neurotoxicity signs were recorded and one animal died. The NOAEL was 0.2 mg/kg/day.

-Kathy

 

[Blue Smoke]

PO is per os, by mouth, not sure why anyone would give frontline orally... This last link says nothing about topical/dermal application in chickens. I tend to not want to use chemicals on my chickens at all however I've had a severe northern fowl mite problem in my main coop and everything besides frontline has failed so far, permethrin and pyrethrin sprays, bathing in dawn, permethrin dust, DE, wood ash, neem oil, all applied in 3-5 day intervals for 2 weeks, etc and these mites have still persisted and killed birds very quickly. I've had 3 in chicken ICU, they've literally been on deaths door, gave them each a final bath and applied 2 drops of frontline (2 have been roosters so no risk of chemicals being in the eggs)one on back between wibgs and other above the vent, but bam, no more mites on these birds and they made full recovery.

 

[aart]

PO is per os, by mouth, not sure why anyone would give frontline orally... This last link says nothing about topical/dermal application in chickens. I tend to not want to use chemicals on my chickens at all however I've had a severe northern fowl mite problem in my main coop and everything besides frontline has failed so far, permethrin and pyrethrin sprays, bathing in dawn, permethrin dust, DE, wood ash, neem oil, all applied in 3-5 day intervals for 2 weeks, etc and these mites have still persisted and killed birds very quickly. I've had 3 in chicken ICU, they've literally been on deaths door, gave them each a final bath and applied 2 drops of frontline (2 have been roosters so no risk of chemicals being in the eggs)one on back between wibgs and other above the vent, but bam, no more mites on these birds and they made full recovery.

Did you ever treat the coop itself?
I'm assuming these mites were the red mite type that lives in the structure and comes out to feed at night.

 

[Blue Smoke]

Yes, I stripped and treated the coop multiple times with both permetherin spray and dust, all corners, roosts, nest boxes, and cracks/crevices thoroughly treated.

 

[aart]

Yes, I stripped and treated the coop multiple times with both permetherin spray and dust, all corners, roosts, nest boxes, and cracks/crevices thoroughly treated.

Did you use the frontline on the coop too then?