Molecto

[General-Lee]

As above anyone use it, how'd you find it?

It's considerably cheaper than Clikzin.

 

[spin cycle]

different product/mode of op to clikzin....it's crovect (cypermethin)......i use it ....need two doses over the summer....i do 5ml stripes through bar type nozzle....head,2 stripes along back and one over dock

 

[General-Lee]

different product/mode of op to clikzin....it's crovect (cypermethin)......i use it ....need two doses over the summer....i do 5ml stripes through bar type nozzle....head,2 stripes along back and one over dock

Ah ok thankyou would I need a different applicator? Just want to treat some cull ewes in wool, so just short cover needed.

 

[exmoor dave]

As above anyone use it, how'd you find it?

It's considerably cheaper than Clikzin.

It's basically covect but cheaper.

8 days withdrawal so real handy if you've got culls or fat lambs that just need a short bit of cover.

Think its down as 4-6 weeks cover....... I'd work on 4 weeks being the likely.


You've got to be abit careful applying it to get the coverage as it supposedly doesn't spread around.
So use flat fan nozzle, I find its easiest to half or third the dose so that you have to pull the gun 2 or 3 times, seems more accurate doing it that way.


Don't use on a hot day esp under cover

 

[Man_in_black]

As been said, I use like crovect. It's excellent at treating strike. As a prevention it only works where applied (won't work through fleece like clik or dysect).

Be really careful with it though....I always poo poo warnings...but spilt load of molecto down my leg last summer & I felt really really rough that evening. Worse than dysect.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

A rep told me that the active ingredient in crovect was harmless to mammals but the carrier was a 25% solution of acetic acid which is a powerful irritant. I think one of its uses is degreasing sheet steel before coating.
Dilute acetic acid is vinegar btw.

 

[Nithsdale]

different product/mode of op to clikzin....it's crovect (cypermethin)......i use it ....need two doses over the summer....i do 5ml stripes through bar type nozzle....head,2 stripes along back and one over dock

Use a fan nozzle, not the T-bar.

You need to cover the animal, as it will not spread out.



For doing lambs, the best thing to do is shed lambs off their mothers and FILL the dosing race. Spray the lambs as you walk through them. They'll jump and climb all over each other - it gives a great spread and the lambs well covered.

 

[Man_in_black]

FILL the dosing race. Spray the lambs as you walk through them. They'll jump and climb all over each other - it gives a great spread and the lambs well covered

+1
This is what I do. Spray them....then go have a panad. 20 minutes later kick them out.....repeat. Nice easy day, with plenty of tea drunk.

 

[Nithsdale]

+1
This is what I do. Spray them....then go have a panad. 20 minutes later kick them out.....repeat. Nice easy day, with plenty of tea drunk.

Do the lot. Then leave them standing in the pens whilst I have a cuppa... I'd be peeing all day if I did it your way

 

[spin cycle]

A rep told me that the active ingredient in crovect was harmless to mammals but the carrier was a 25% solution of acetic acid which is a powerful irritant. I think one of its uses is degreasing sheet steel before coating.
Dilute acetic acid is vinegar btw.

i guess he's right if you regard an anti nerve enzyme chemical as harmless

 

[jemski]

Having got it on my skin, I will never use it to treat a lamb with maggots again. It burns!!! For hours. I couldn't sleep. And that was on normal skin, not raw skin. I won't subject a lamb to that.

 

[Man_in_black]

Do the lot. Then leave them standing in the pens whilst I have a cuppa... I'd be peeing all day if I did it your way

At that awkward stage my lamb flock has outgrown my hard standing area.

 

[Nithsdale]

At that awkward stage my lamb flock has outgrown my hard standing area.

Same here really... but still batches of 100+ ewes at a time

 

[Nithsdale]

Having got it on my skin, I will never use it to treat a lamb with maggots again. It burns!!! For hours. I couldn't sleep. And that was on normal skin, not raw skin. I won't subject a lamb to that.

It may well burn...

But I'd rather have a good dose of Crovect, or Dysect, on my skin than maggots eating into me

 

[jemski]

You can get the maggots off without it, just takes a bit longer.

 

[neilo]

Not that I would do such a thing these days, what with no label recs or the like, but a good slosh of cool, soothing OP dip over the struck patch would work very well.

 

[Man_in_black]

Having got it on my skin, I will never use it to treat a lamb with maggots again. It burns!!! For hours. I couldn't sleep. And that was on normal skin, not raw skin. I won't subject a lamb to that.

Also have to be careful Re dosing amount on broken skin as it's absorbed quicker into & overdose very easily done.