What is Dicyclanil?
What is Dicyclanil?
Dicyclanil is an antiparasitic active ingredient used in veterinary medicine in sheep against blowfly strike. It is not used against agricultural or household pests. It is a so-called Insect Growth Regulator (IGR) belonging to the chemical class of the cyano-pyrimidines.
How do you treat maggots in sheep?
Treatment. Treatment of individual affected sheep involves physical removal of maggots, cleaning and disinfection of wounds and supportive treatment such as antibiotics, fluids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) under direction from your vet.
What is CLiKZiN?
GENERAL INFORMATION CLiKZiN is a ready to use spray-on which will give medium-term residual protection (6 to 9 weeks for full body treatment and for treatment at docking) against flystrike caused by all the commonly found strike flies including the Australian blowfly (Lucilia cuprina).
Is cyromazine harmful to humans?
Cyromazine is an insect growth regulators (IGR) that belongs to the chemical class of the triazines. Cyromazine is not used in human medicines.
How does CLiK work on sheep?
The active ingredient of CLIK is dicyclanil, a potent insect growth regulator, discovered and developed by Novartis Animal Health CLIK represents a major step forward in the prevention of blowfly strike on sheep. CLIK provides extended full body protection against blowfly strike for 16 weeks.
Does CLiK treat lice?
CLiK+ Spray-On must be applied to sheep off-shears or within 7 days after shearing or to unshorn lambs up to 3 months of age to obtain protection against fly strike and control and treatment of body lice.
How do I know if my sheep have maggots?
What to look for
- Signs of irritation leading to inappetance, dullness and depression.
- Foul smelling areas of moist, stained wool – dark green in colour.
- Kicking of the hind limbs and tail shaking.
- Maggots present at skin level upon parting the fleece.
- Skin lesions (from reddened areas to deeper wounds)
How do you Clik sheep?
Apply CLiK Spray-On according to the diagrams and tales in the Directions For Use. Do not dilute. Apply directly from the container or an appropriate backpack using a spray-on applicator gun recommend by Novartis. Click Spray-On may be applied to all breeds of sheep to obtain protection against fly strike.
What Colour is Clik?
CLIK is quick and easy to apply single handedly, • CLIK contains a scourable short-lived red dye to identify treated sheep.
What is cyromazine used for in animals?
Cyromazine is a triazine IGR with applications in sheep for the prevention of cutaneous myiasis and as a poultry feed-through agent for fly control in chicken feces. Because of its novel and specific mode of action, the mammalian toxicity is of a very low order.
How much 14c-cyromazine can you give a sheep?
One sheep (strain not given) was given a daily dose of 14C-cyromazine (uniformly triazine ring labeled) of 0.15 mg/kg bw/day by capsule for nine days. By 24 hours after the last dose about 90% of the administered dose had been recovered in urine.
Is cyromazine effective against blowfly?
Cyromazine is an aminotriazine and a cyclopropyl derivative of melamine marketed under the trademarks Neoprex™, Trigard™, and Vetrazin™. It is found to be giving good control of stable flies in winter hay ( Taylor et al., 2012 ). Dicyclanil under the commercial trade name Clik™ has been found to be efficacious against blowfly on sheep and lamb.
Is cyromazine a molt inhibitor?
Cyromazine and dicyclanil, which do not inhibit chitin synthesis but interfere with cuticle formation, are also considered as molt inhibitors. Cyromazine is an aminotriazine and a cyclopropyl derivative of melamine marketed under the trademarks Neoprex™, Trigard™, and Vetrazin™.
