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"CyLence" pour-on insecticide.

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TimH

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I used to use insecticide ear tags in the summer, but got sick of it. Decided to try a product called "CyLence",made by Bayer, for fly and insect control.
Has anyone else used this??? How did it work??
 
hi Tim, we have used in the winter to for lice, (when we are feeling cheap) done it a few times and had mediocre results, but this year we are having bad flies, and we put it on our bulls, and like Lilly says it helps for about a month.
 
The tags we used to use,(we tried every brand), were only effective for about 2 weeks as near as I could tell. This Cy-Lence is less than $2.00/head and if it needs to be re-applied after 4 or 5 weeks.... no big deal. It is mainly the bulls that the flies really bother around here. Most of my bulls are quiet enough that I can walk up to them in the pasture and pour them. Way easier than them #$%^&^%$ tags!!! :lol:
 
We have used Cylence for years and have been very pleased with it.
The applicator works well and the product stays on for a month or
close to it. We do our cows at branding time, just run them through the chute and put it on the calves as they get up after being wrestled.
Then we don't use it again until the bulls are pulled.

We have used it for so long, I wonder if we should change products.
I've been meaning to call the company and see what their recommendations are.
 
We also pen em sometimes in the late summer(Sept Oct), mix up corral, and spray them, it kills nearly every fly on em, and usually don't hafta worry about the fly problem for the rest of the winter until spring (Mar or April)
 
That spray is very dangerous, Lilly. That's why no one uses it much anymore. Hard to use it and not get any where it is not supposed to be.

Case in point: An old rancher we know got leukemia and they figured it was from spraying cattle with Cor-al. He just wasn't careful enough. Got some on him, wind drift, whatever. Anyway, he sure died from it.

With the applicator and doing each animal individually, it is so much
safer.

You be careful with that Co-Ral, ya hear? :shock:
 
I've never liked usin the corral Co-ral, lol see dont even know how to spell it. We have very little wind in our area....but I swear when you rig up the sprayer to spray cattle there's gonna be enuff wind to blow that stuff around.
I've often wondered, whatever happened to the dip bath thing they usta do with cattle? no one has those anymore. Very few people dip dogs anymore either, I remember grandma havin a 55 gallon barrel and she'd fill it bout half full, put in the dog dip concoction and dunk em under.......stuff worked really good. Maybe it was too dangerous stuff that ya mixed in the water???
 
I remember taking cows to the stockyard when I was a wee lad, where they would make the cows swim through a concrete vat to kill external parasites.

Most folks took them during horsefly-heelfly season. June-July.

Wasn't any problem after you got the first one to swim across. The rest would follow.

Wonder what they used back then?
 
Mike, you probably don't want to know. :?

Sabre is good, or so I have heard. Never have used it, but
it might be what we try next to alternate from Cylence.

Durasect is very good, just costs more than Cylence so we
quit using it. Dursasect might last a little longer than Cylence.

I don't know the cost of Sabre.

Durasect is a little thick too, and is not as easy to apply.
Cylence works really good and so does the applicator.
 
Durasect is that white milky thick stuff right? We tend not to use the chemical fly controls but have used Cylence in the past as well as a duster with coral in it...


I know some who like the durasect (if it is what I am thining about) because of how thick it was... Never got the logic on that, maybe they thought it wouldn''t run off but I never had that problem with cylence.
 
Down here Sabre is $35 a liter...I think it treats 60 mama cows. It may be a quart...sorry. At any rate, I think it is about $.50 per animal per treatment.
 

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