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Cyrex™ Liquid for Sheep
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Cyrex Liquid for sheep effectively controls flies, maggots and lice in sheep. Contains the active ingredients cyromazine and spinosad to actively control and treat blowfly strike for up to 12 weeks and lice on fine wool (merino) and coarse wool breeds.
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SKU#: PID00594
Cyrex Liquid protects sheep from blowfly for up to 12 weeks and lice on wool strains that are resistant to synthetic pyrethroids. The withholding period for milk is 35 days and meat is 7 days. For wool, ensure the time between dipping and subsequent shearing is at least two months, except in the case of spot treatment for fly strike.
- Two proven active ingredients: 12.5 g per L of spinosad and 500 g per L of cyromazine. Spinosad provides knockdown control of blowflies, maggot and lice while cyromazine provides up to 12 weeks protection against blowfly strike
- Safe for operators and sheep
- No known resistance in New Zealand to the active ingredients
- Apply through jetting, shower dip or flystrike dressing before flystrike is detected, ideally docking or weaning
- To control lice, apply in autumn
- Both active ingredients have favourable environmental safety profiles
Specifications
| Ingredients | Active ingredients : 12.5 g per L of spinosad, and 500 g per L of cyromazine. |
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| Recycling | Recycle safely using Agrecovery, New Zealand's solution for the safe disposal of unwanted agrichemicals, and the recycling or recovery of empty containers, drums and IBCs. |
| Application method | Jetting, shower dip or flystrike dressing. |
| Application timing | Apply before flystrike is detected, ideally docking or weaning and in autumn for lice knockdown. Thorough wetting is essential. |
| Controls | Fly, maggots and lice. |
| Dose Rate | 2 L with 1,000 L of water. |
| Suitable for | Prevention and treatment of blowfly strike and lice in sheep. |
| Withholding periods | Milk: 35 daysMeat: 7 daysWool: 2 months |
| Tech Sheet | Cyrex™ Liquid for Sheep - Tech Sheet |
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