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Choosing Shower Dips For Sheep Lice, Tony Higgs, Bob Love
Choosing Shower Dips For Sheep Lice, Tony Higgs, Bob Love
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
The performance of all shower dip chemicals for sheep lice can vary depending on the active chemical and the conditions under which they are used.
Department of Agriculture trials have indicated that the wettable powders coumaphos and magnesium fluorosilicate were less effective at eradicating sheep lice than were synthetic pyrethroid and organophosphate dipping chemicals.
However, failure to eradicate sheep lice may be the result of several factors, many of them related to management.
New Policy Hits Hard At Sheep Lice, F C. Wilkinson
New Policy Hits Hard At Sheep Lice, F C. Wilkinson
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
In March 1977 the regulation requiring compulsory routine dipping of all sheep within 30 days of shearing changed, and only infested flocks were required to be dipped. This change has allowed concentrated eradication efforts.