Dip for Cattle, Sheep and Goats

Cattle: For plunge dips, spray races and hand spraying.

Controls ticks and kills biting and sucking lice.

Protects against nuisance flies and screw-worm infestations.

Sheep and goats: Kills sheep scab mites and goat mange mites.

Controls itch mites and ticks (including Karoo Paralysis ticks), kills lice and keds and protects against blowfly strike and midge worry.

WARNINGS

Handle with extreme care. Poisonous by contact, swallowing and inhalation. Allow seven days between last dipping or spraying an slaughter of cattle for human consumption. Allow fourteen days between last dipping or spraying and slaughter of sheep for human consumption. Allow six hours between last dipping or spraying and ilking. Store under lock and key away from food and feed. keep out of reach of children, uninformed persons and pets. Toxic to fish, bees and wildlife. This product may cause skin reaction such as itching and redness of the skin in a small percentage of cases. Should this occur wash the affected area with soapy water and avoid further contact with the product.

IN CASE OF INGESTION OR POISONING, IMMEDIATELY CALL A DOCTOR AND MAKE THIS LABEL AVAILABLE TO HIM.

Although this remedy has been extensively tested under a large variety of conditions, failure thereof may ensue as a result of a wide range of reasons . If this is suspected, seek veterinary advice and notify the registration holder.

PRECAUTIONS:

Use TIKGARD alone. Do not mix with any other dip. For external use on cattle, sheep and goats only by dipping or jetting. Avoid contact with the concentrate. Wash immediately with soap and hot water after accidental skin contamination, Remove contaminated clothing. Avoid prolonged contact with dipwash or inhalation of spray mist. Do not eat, drink or smoke while or after mixing and handling of concentrate, dipwash or spray mix before washing hands and face thoroughly . Prevent contamination of food, utensils grazing, drinking water, dams, rivers etc. Destroy empty container by perforation and flattening and never re-use for any other purpose. Wash hands thoroughly after use.

SYMPTOMS OF POISONING

Headache, dizziness, pupils usually contracted, nausea vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhoea, salivation, sweating, muscular weakness or twitching, convulsions, tightness in chest, difficulty in breathing, respiratory failure coma.

FIRST AID ANTIDOTE

Remove person from source of contaminated clothing.

Wash thoroughly with copius quantities of soap and water.

If taken by mouth, induce vomiting by tickling back of throat if person is conscious

Keep away clear. If breathing stops, apply artificial respiration.

Give 2mg atropine sulphate by mouth immediately and repeat half-hourly, until signs of flushed skin, dry mouth and rapid pulse appear or the person is seen by a physician

NOTE TO DOCTOR

This is an organophosphate-pyrethroid combination. Keep patient fully atropinised and use 2-P.A.M.

NOTE TO VETERINARIAN

Give atropine sulphate intravenously at a rate of 1mg per 10kg repeatedly to attain effect and thereafter repeat as needed to maintain atropinisation at a rate of 0.5mg per 10kg. Inject 2-P.AM. intravenously at a rate of 50mg per kg.

DIRECTIONS FOR USE:

USE ONLY AS DIRECTED

1. Shake well before use. Protect from extremes of heat or cold.
2. Premixing: For best results add a measured volume of concrete to double the volume of water (while stirring) to produce a ‘cream’; then pour the premix into the bulk of water in the tank and stir to complete dispersion.

A. DIPPING OF SHEEP AND GOATS

DIPPING METHOD:

CONVENTIONAL METHOD: 

Fresh filling: 1:1000 (1litre concentrate in 1000 litres water)

Replenishment: 1:600 (when one third of the dipwash has been removed from the tank).

CONSTANT REPLENISHMENT METHOD:

Fresh filling: 1:1000(1 litre concentrate in 1000litres of water)

Replenishment: 1:600

These dilution rates are to be used when dipping for the following:

(a) To kill keds and lice on sheep and goats and goat mange mites: Dip once only

(b)To kill sheep scab mites: Dip twice at 8-10 day interval. (c) For control of itch mites: Dip twice at 14 days interval. All sheep must be dipped including sucklings and young lambs. (d) For protection against blowfly strike: Repeat every two weeks or as necessary. (e) For protection against midge worry: Repeat every four weeks or as necessary.

To prevent post dipping lameness: Zinc sulphate should be added to the dipwash at 1kg per 1000 litres water, particularly if it has been standing for a day or more.

For control of lumpy wool: Add 1kg zinc sulphate per 400 litres of dipwash.

BELLY BATH Dilution rates – as for DIPPING above.

(a) For control of paralysis ticks: Repeat every 10 weeks or as necessary.

HANDRESSING FOR CRUTCH AND BODY BLOWFLY STRIKE

(a) Dilute one part of concentrate to 500 parts water (1 litre to 500 or 20ml concentrate to 10 litres of water. Stir well (b) Apply to crutch, back and other strike sites after rain and when blowfly strikes can be anticipated. Ensure that the fleece is well wetted down to the skin.

B. DIPPING CATTLE:

The correct dipping of stock in this product may in time give rise to very low tick infestation on the animals. This could lead to immunity against tick-borne diseases, especially among the young stock, being adversely affected. This may be undesirable if the animals are later on subjected to tick infestation. It is therefore advisable that stock be immunised against tick-bore diseases beforehand. If this is not possible, then stock under four weeks must not be dipped unless tick infestation is excessive. It is good management to dip calves under three months separately from larger animals and preferably after the main herd.

(a) PLUNGE DIPPING:

Fresh Fill(charge): 1: 1000 (1litre concentrate in 1000 litres water)

Replenish at: 1: 600 (1 litre concentrate to 600 litres of water)

(b) SPRAY RACE:

Fresh Fill(charge): 1: 1000 (1litre concentrate in 1000 litres water)

Replenish at: 1: 600 (1 litre concentrate to 600 litres of water)

NOTE: It is not good spray race practice to carry dipwash over from one spraying to the next and preferable to only make up sufficient wash for each spraying (+/-) three litres per head plus an amount for the pump system.

c)HAND SPRAYING: Prepare about 5-10 litres dipwash per head 1:1000 (10ml concentrate in 10 litres water). thoroughly wet the animal by spraying from below upwards so that the hair is lifted by the spray. Concentrate on the ears, under the tail and in the brush of the tail.

DIPPING INTERVALS

TICKS AND SCREW-WORMS: When TIKGARD is used for the first time it is recommended that heavily infested cattle be dipped weekly till they are free of ticks. Thereafter they may be dipped fortnightly except in the case of severe brown ear tick infestation when weekly dipping may be desirable. It is recommended that fortnightly dipping then be carried out throughout the year including the winter season.

LICE: Only one application is sufficient.

NUISANCE FLIES: The regular dipping of cattle as indicated for tick control above, will help protect against nuisance flies. Specifically for fly control however, weekly dipping or spraying for a period of three weeks should be applied. Thereafter this protection should be repeated as necessary.

VERY TOXIC