- Jul 3, 2014
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Easiest way to apply the Elector PSP for me:
1. Mix it in a spray bottle or sprayer
2. Spray them when they are roosting at night, or I also throw out some corn/bird seed and then sneak up behind them and spray them while they are eating (mine know what the feed scoop means and they get pretty excited for their scratch treats). I think overtime they will probably get used to this. You could even work on training them/desensitizing them to it with water during the summer.
3. Keep track of who you sprayed as best you can, but easy to tell if you're not sure is check and see if their butt is wet or not. (I spray all of one breed/color at a time so I can kind of keep track who I did vs not).
I would be worried about full-body dips as that may be giving a higher than label dose, but it is fairly safe, so you are probably okay. I don't know if it specifically does scaley leg mites, but it is in the same overall drug class as ivermectin (macrocyclic lactone). I think should be fairly similar and likely does them as well. They likely just didn't go for the label approval to put it on there.
P.S. I actually don't recommend frequent switching between drug classes. The new recommendations based on parasite resistance development in sheep is to use one drug until it doesn't work anymore before switching to another class. You don't want to be exposing parasites to multiple drug classes at once (or within fairly recent time frames). And be judicious with treatment, treat when necessary - when you see parasites - instead of routinely treating regardless. In sheep, the hope is that by the time resistance builds up to your second drug, the parasites will have lost the resistance genes for the first one. It gets complicated, but that is the gist.
1. Mix it in a spray bottle or sprayer
2. Spray them when they are roosting at night, or I also throw out some corn/bird seed and then sneak up behind them and spray them while they are eating (mine know what the feed scoop means and they get pretty excited for their scratch treats). I think overtime they will probably get used to this. You could even work on training them/desensitizing them to it with water during the summer.
3. Keep track of who you sprayed as best you can, but easy to tell if you're not sure is check and see if their butt is wet or not. (I spray all of one breed/color at a time so I can kind of keep track who I did vs not).
I would be worried about full-body dips as that may be giving a higher than label dose, but it is fairly safe, so you are probably okay. I don't know if it specifically does scaley leg mites, but it is in the same overall drug class as ivermectin (macrocyclic lactone). I think should be fairly similar and likely does them as well. They likely just didn't go for the label approval to put it on there.
P.S. I actually don't recommend frequent switching between drug classes. The new recommendations based on parasite resistance development in sheep is to use one drug until it doesn't work anymore before switching to another class. You don't want to be exposing parasites to multiple drug classes at once (or within fairly recent time frames). And be judicious with treatment, treat when necessary - when you see parasites - instead of routinely treating regardless. In sheep, the hope is that by the time resistance builds up to your second drug, the parasites will have lost the resistance genes for the first one. It gets complicated, but that is the gist.
