SPOTTON, by Bayer, inc. - Page 1

I have ran a search and seen that a few breeders use this product made by BAYER, inc. but the posts were in 2004.  I have since found out that this product was taken off the market several years ago, just like paramite was.

Does anyone know of a product similar to Spotton that can be bought over the internet or at a feed store? 

I am sorry people, I am in North Texas, and live next to a huge 800 acre ranch with plenty of wild critters. plus people insist on letting their dogs and cats run the roads out here.  Frontline, bio-spot, $20 collars from the vet, permithin spray, granules, 7-dust, sulfur,  diatemacious earth,  I have bought shampoo's containing IGR, sprays containing IGR . I have tried it all and nothing is helping me fight ticks.  A vet I recently went to has even stopped selling frontline as it is not working for them either. 

I have put myself in the ER due to severe allergic reaction this week due to all the chemicals I have been handling.  I have spent over $400 last month on property sprays and stuff to put on my dogs.  nothing is helping.  I have never had a problem like this.

I am posting looking for suggestions or product help.  please don't post if you have nothing nice to say as I am under enough stress knowing I am trying everything and nothing is helping.

Hi,

I hear you!  I live in the country here in Texas too.  I have been tick and flee free this season after my vet told me that frontline plus works but in some areas you NEED TO APPLY IT EVERY TWO WEEKS.  So that is what I did and vuala, no fleas or ticks :)

Hope that helps.

Back in the day, when I lived in Indiana, and lived within 500ft of a 500acre woods, I had Guinia hens(spelling).

I also used "Seven Dust" on my dogs. I used nemotodes in my yard. I never had a tick on myself, my dogs or my horses, until I moved to Florida.

After Hurricane Wilma went through, I was struck(like many down here) with another tick outbreak.

I went back to dusting my immediate yard and the neighbors yards with "Seven Dust", my dogs with SEVEN Dust, and use dicoutaneious(SP) earth as well.  I would literally pick ticks every day, and had a bottle of rubbing alchohol set up to deposit them in.

I "bombed" my house, and my attic area weekly for 2 months.

Ticks can live for about a year without a blood meal, so likely, long after the world ends, they will be around like the cockroaches...

BTW, It was also suggested that you politely ask them to leave.  Not kidding...>Hey, I was willing to try anything....so, every day, at the risk of looking and sounding like a complete idiot, I walked out in my back yard and chanted the following:  "Ticks and other bugs....I appreciate that everyone in this world has a purpose and a reason for existing.  I understand what my purpose is, and try as I might, I cannot understand what your purpose is.  With that in mind, I respectfully ask that you vacate my property and the property surrounding mine.  I am not asking that you die, only that you go live your life somewhere other than my property, dogs, home, and self.  Thanks, and have a very nice life."

Now, I can "hear" you all snorting coffee out your noses...but, seriously.....ask nicely......you never know what might happen!

Now, I am not sure if it was my asking them to leave nicely, 3 times per day, or all the pesticides that I put down, but I haven't had a problem sinse....

yep, I have seriously considered investing in guinea hens.  I sprayed and dusted less than 4 days ago and today I walked out back and you can literaly see the little bastards just crawling across the ground and on things.  guess I will start looking for guinea fowl Monday.  I too have an alcohol bottle for them,  and pick them off daily, but it seems like it is a losing battle at the moment. 

Bought 6 guinee's today!!  Right now they are babies being kept in a crate in my "dog room" - soon enough they will be roaming "free range" over my property!!  Till then - I'm seeing ticks for the first time in 9 years on my property here!!  I've used a combination of products including: diametric earth/ frontline/ 7 dust/ and anything else that might work!!!!  In the meantime - I am picking the ticks and waiting on my new guinee's to grow enough to turn them out!

Guinea fowl are great for keeping a large variety of bugs more under control, noticable reduction of flies around the mules and ponies.  They don't like snakes either and have been reported to go after them.  Today they alerted me to the d**m coyote after my geese, in the middle of the day.  And no, they are not always noisey, more of the time mine are very quiet.  Good natural control choice...

Uber land Is your property fenced?This can deter some critters.Wlpool..Frontline is very expensive.Glad that you are happy with the results.Basically it is not a cure all.It is the alcohol in it that takes the breath away from fleas.etc and it has been marketed as a quick fix for sales.In another thread someone mentioned using garlic.The more the better in cases like these.Garlic when ingested comes out through the skin..another deterrant(sp).The dog trainer in ref to the day..Any land roving fowl is good.Chickens/Turkeys/Ducks as well as Ginea(sp).They all serve a purpose.Well crud forget the spelling of "Ginny's".They are also an alarm system if there is more than one.GOOD stormhasit for buying Ginnys.If you have enough land buy a couple of chickens etc. and let them roam. Just give them access to water.They love BUGS!!!!Yep back in the day they did their job.So if you have land that is unrestricted..Go for it!!!All of these pesticides etc they are immune to.Let mother nature do the work as intended.In ref to horses..I live in lower alabama.The more birds the better.

Appreciate the heads up!!  I also have 23 chickens that are about 3 months old now - just now getting old enough to turn out...  Been keeping them in their own yard till today.  Wasn't sure if they would help with the bug problem or not...  I got them for eggs and now I'm learning about the other benefilts of having them!!  So now I let them out in the yard!!!.  Now I'm hoping they'll help with the ticks that are turning up this year!  Would you happen to know... What kind of "maintenance" do the chickens need? Are there supplements they should be getting? I have been feeding them the Starter recently switched to Layer Crumbles and giving table scraps. I have 9 Austrolorpe (8 hens & 1 rooster) & 12 Sex Links (all hens) + 1 Game Rooster & Hen. They all appear healthy and happy - I just don't want to be missing something. Also - I have heard that here pretty soon I need to start adding Scratch (in a feeder like the food??) - when do I do this??  I've posted this on a chicken message board but haven't gotten any response.

yep, I have close to 2 acres fenced off.  I also have 3 pygmy goats to worry about,  can't spray where they graze.  thanks everyone I have kept chickens in the past.  I had a tame red hen as a child that I carried around everywhere.  I guess I am going to look for guinea's.  also, my boyfriend is mixing a salve of garlic and alcohol to try.  we are going to try and find some concentrated garlic at health food stores and see if that does any good.  the chemicals and pesticides just aren't working.  permithrin has beena round so long the bugs are immune to it.

Jennifer