Spring is here.....Need tips with Tick Control

[johnsrt4]

Seeing that the purple ear tags are for cattle couldn't you cut it down since it will be on a dog and make it last even longer? Do any of you cut them in to 4ths or even smaller? do these need to touch the skin or can you just punch a hole in it and hang it from the collar? Also any of you use them on puppies? You guys that use the purple tags use them and no other flea or tick treatment? Your also saying it will last spring summer and fall on the same tag? Didn't mean to hijack the thread but found this very interesting.

[PREACHERS,KENNEL]

i use ivomec and seven dust.and a little boi spot here and there..\

my friend uses bayer tree and shrub ,swears by it . i aint tried it yet ..

[Keystone Kid]

Here you go, read all the links available:

http://www.heasleyskeystonekennels.com/ ... 4&catid=29

[Joeyman]

have the frontline plus on the dogs for almost a month now. NO TICKS yet

[Duke]

Next time Joey try the Frontline spray, two bottles takes care of my entire Kennel for the year at around 80 bucks. Fronlline spray is as safe as you can get for your hounds. Keep in mind we are using pesticides here and none of them are probably good for our hounds. But we must trade off that danger verses the danger of having our hounds infestated by fleas or ticks.

I always hear about guys using products for horses or cattle, or some pesticide not designed for hounds. Personally I would not go that way, as I can buy a top notch product designed for hounds for only 80 dollars to handle my ENTIRE kennel for a year. Think would you swallow a pill designed for an elepannt because your buddy said it would save you money????? Would you smear some cream on yourself that is used to kill termites around your house to keep the mosquitoes off you because the guy down the street said it is make of the same product that is used in deepwoods off???? What you have to remember here is chemical strength. We all have used products with ammonia in them to clean the house but pure or full strength ammonia would kill you. Guys the best stuff is not that expensive. Frontline spray is 39.95 a bottle at Thomas Veterinary and will treat several hounds. It is sprayed on and last for a month just like the liquid put between shoulders in the more popular frontline tubes.

As far as using the cheap products like Biospot use at your own risk. I personally went cheap one summer and used this product and had two hounds have siezures from it. Dont believe me, here is the website specifically designed to warn you about Biospot: http://www.biospotvictims.org/ I wish I had read it before I decided to save a few dollars. I AM VERY GLAD YOU DID NOT USE THIS PRODUCT ON YOUR HOUND JOEY!!!!!!

In the end ladies and gentlemen these are your hounds and you decide individually how much they are worth to you. You decide how well you will treat them, how many corners you want to cut. Some guys let their hounds live in a cutout blue barrel year round with no insulation in very cold climates others decide to build houses with inulation, doors, filled with straw and a light for heat. You make the decision as they are your hounds. What kind of owner do you want to be??

[Jeremy Mapes]

I buy this spray at TSC for horses. It's called Bronco Gold. It works great. I just spray it on about once a week and never have any problems with fleas, ticks or anything else. A bottle cost about $7-$10 and I usually only go through two bottles a year. That's using it on about 5-6 dogs.

that seems very economical!!!...hhhhmmmm

It works well. I have yet to see a tick on my hounds, and they're horrible around here this year.

[Joeyman]

Next time Joey try the Frontline spray, two bottles takes care of my entire Kennel for the year at around 80 bucks. Fronlline spray is as safe as you can get for your hounds. Keep in mind we are using pesticides here and none of them are probably good for our hounds. But we must trade off that danger verses the danger of having our hounds infestated by fleas or ticks.

I always hear about guys using products for horses or cattle, or some pesticide not designed for hounds. Personally I would not go that way, as I can buy a top notch product designed for hounds for only 80 dollars to handle my ENTIRE kennel for a year. Think would you swallow a pill designed for an elepannt because your buddy said it would save you money????? Would you smear some cream on yourself that is used to kill termites around your house to keep the mosquitoes off you because the guy down the street said it is make of the same product that is used in deepwoods off???? What you have to remember here is chemical strength. We all have used products with ammonia in them to clean the house but pure or full strength ammonia would kill you. Guys the best stuff is not that expensive. Frontline spray is 39.95 a bottle at Thomas Veterinary and will treat several hounds. It is sprayed on and last for a month just like the liquid put between shoulders in the more popular frontline tubes.

As far as using the cheap products like Biospot use at your own risk. I personally went cheap one summer and used this product and had two hounds have siezures from it. Dont believe me, here is the website specifically designed to warn you about Biospot: http://www.biospotvictims.org/ I wish I had read it before I decided to save a few dollars. I AM VERY GLAD YOU DID NOT USE THIS PRODUCT ON YOUR HOUND JOEY!!!!!!

In the end ladies and gentlemen these are your hounds and you decide individually how much they are worth to you. You decide how well you will treat them, how many corners you want to cut. Some guys let their hounds live in a cutout blue barrel year round with no insulation in very cold climates others decide to build houses with inulation, doors, filled with straw and a light for heat. You make the decision as they are your hounds. What kind of owner do you want to be??

I still got the biospot sitting on the shelf. I am going to try and return it next time I go in to buy dog food. I went with Frontline Plus over the biospot. I got the large dog and split it among 5 dogs using a syringe. 0.7cc per dog worked out perfect.

[chanks]

I do the same Joey, $40 worth of frontline plus lasts 3 months for 6 dogs. I really can't complain about that. I also use the Branco spray for flies etc. around their kennel and usually hit the area with 7 dust, more for the kids and I than the dogs, lol.

Here is the dosage of what you are getting with frotline plus, as i said before I buy the 89-132 lbs 3 pack and use two 3 ml syringes. I guess you could use a 5 ml and a 1 ml or whatever works best for you. i just pull the plunger out of the syringe and leave the cap on the tip where the needle would go. I then pop the top on the green frontline container and fill up the first syringe, and put a large needle about 18ga and inject the 0.7 ml in the other syringe and apply to the dog then repete.
This is how it is supplied:
11-22 lbs.=0.023 fl oz (0.67 mL)
23-44 lbs.=0.045 fl oz (1.34 mL)
45-88 lbs.=0.091 fl oz (2.68 mL)
89-132 lbs.=0.136 fl oz (4.02 ml)

[Ky. Hunter]

by Jeremy Mapes on Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:22 pm

I buy this spray at TSC for horses. It's called Bronco Gold. It works great. I just spray it on about once a week and never have any problems with fleas, ticks or anything else. A bottle cost about $7-$10 and I usually only go through two bottles a year. That's using it on about 5-6 dogs.

Jeremy,
Can you use this on a bitch that is nurshing pups? I usually use the purple cattle tags but I am taking it off my bitch since the pups are three weeks old and they will start chewing on everything around them soon.

[Jeremy Mapes]

I wouldn't. My vet turned me on to this product and told me not to put it on anything under 12wks of age. I will read the bottle when I get a chance and see if it says anything on there.

[BEAGLE JOCK]

Be real extra careful also keeping ticks off yourself.One tick got to me last month.I am taking Doxycycline at this time for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.This crap SUCKS.

[Fleetwood]

I too use the Frontline plus. Been using it a long time and have had great luck with it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[TOPGUN]

If you can afford the frontline plus, its prob. the best. I like the frontline spray. Revival Animal Health has it for 24$ a bottle. I have 10 hounds and that lasts me the whole year.
I bought some orange collar{cattle ear tags} tags from a guy at the world hunt to try and they haven`t worked for ticks at all. The next couple days after I run mine, they have ticks all over them. I`d have to give them a poor reference.

[Ky. Hunter]

I bought some orange collar{cattle ear tags} tags from a guy at the world hunt to try and they haven`t worked for ticks at all. The next couple days after I run mine, they have ticks all over them. I`d have to give them a poor reference

The purple cattle tags are the ones you should use. It seems the orange ones don't have as much pesticide in them and don't seem to work on the ticks.

[roscoe]

No one has said anything about Preventic collars .They only kill ticks . Search the net and you 'll find them. They last 3 mos. They work with bio-spot at the same time. Research the net you'll find more info than on here most of the time . I use the collars on my house dogs and the ticks crawl around and into my bed Well better than into the dog Get the 2 pack 25 in. Research and yee shall find......