processing and frontline

[freshfish]

How long should I wait before I process a chicken after I've used frontline?

 

[Folly's place]

Nobody knows; it's an off-label drug use issue. The product lasts up to three months on dogs for it's flea killing properties, and there's no data concerning poultry. Probably it's okay to eat, but I wouldn't consider selling the birds as meat for anyone else. I wouldn't use it, myself, for that reason. Mary

 

[bobbi-j]

I wouldn't eat it. At least not for several months. Even then, I don't know. May I ask why you used it on your chickens?

 

[missnu01]

Hmm. Frontline on birds is new to me. If I'm having mite trouble I dust them with sevin dust. Never worried about eating them since I also use sevin dust on my garden. Just wash first and since you remove the feathers before eating the bird and cook it I feel there's no harm.

 

[bobbi-j]

The thing that bothers me about the Frontline is that it's absorbed through the skin, into the blood stream, into the meat. Just not comfortable with it. I also don't know that I'd eat eggs from a chicken that has been treated with it.

 

[missnu01]

No I would think the front line would taint everything in the bird. It is a systemic killer. Meaning it changes the host animal making basically the whole whole animal poisonous to parasites... systemic pesticides for plants are the same way. They soak in and literally change the plant it becomes poison to the target pest itself.
So your chickens are now poisonous. I don't think eating one would kill you, but front line is made to get inside the blood and tissues to kill pests from the Inside out. Effective? yes, necessary? No.. so I wouldn't eat eggs or meat from chickens treated with front line and we don't know how long it will affect the bird because birds are birds and dogs and cats are mammals. It might be in heir system for 3 months or 3 weeks or 6 months or a day. I wouldn't recommend continuing to use front line for your chickens as there are other less insidious chemicals you can use that will effectively kill whatever parasite you are are treating for.

 

[Cindy in PA]

I wouldn't eat chickens or eggs treated with sevin or frontline. Yuck.

 

[bluebirdnanny]

I wouldn't either! This is the reason (one of them) I raise chickens.... avoiding chemicals as past exposure has already caused neurological damage and disability here!! NO way!

Sorry if that offends but for mites I provide sifted wood ashes for them to bathe in. They tend to know when to do it.

 

[freshfish]

I have had problems with fleas and some other small bugs I can see on the roos combs. It's the frontline spray I use sparingly, a couple times a year. Been using for 3 years, no more bugs. Never processed, have been eating eggs. I guess I'll stop using but I know I tried sevin dust, DE, and pyrmethrin 10% and ivermectin (sp?)unsuccessfully in the past. Open to suggestions to control fleas and such.

 

[missnu01]

Hmm... When you said frontline I was thinking of the between the shoulders goo you put on dogs...
I haven't seen anything that de does kill and haven't seen anything sevin wont. So I have no idea, but what you are seeing is mites. I'm pretty sure chickens don't usually have fleas