Special Offer*— What is CBM8?
CBM8 is a long-acting insecticide product that can be used as a spot treatment via spray application, or a whole-house treatment administered as a fog, to combat the following flying and crawling insects: mites, nuisance flies and beetles.
The formulation is designed to be slow-release and to be effective for up to 3 months. This product also has the advantage of having two active ingredients (Pyrethroids) meaning that there is a low chance of resistance developing.
Each 500ml bottle will treat between 200-500m2 when sprayed, or up to 2,500 m3 when fogged. Please get in touch with your local PHS branch if you wish to discuss the use of this product in more detail, or to enquire about placing an order.
The offer price is £45+VAT per bottle and this will be non-returnable.
*While stocks last. Will incur a delivery charge.
Coccidiosis vaccines– by Elliott Boyd, PHS vet at Sheriff Hutton, York.
Read here the abstract of Elliott’s article at Farmers Weekly
Coccidial oocysts are ubiquitous in the environment and are extremely hardy and resistant to cleaning protocols. Not much can be done to stop oocysts from getting into the birds as they instinctively peck at the ground which will invariably contain some oocysts. One key to reducing the negative clinical signs is a robust cocci-specific cleaning protocol. Anticoccidials in feed have been the accepted wisdom to control coccidiosis for decades, a wide range of protocols including chemical breaks and shuttle programmes can give good control and reduce resistance if done correctly.
If the oocyst population on the farm has become resistant to the anticoccidial being used or there has been a particularly ineffectual turnaround cleaning then signs of coccidiosis may become apparent in your birds. Cocci vaccines are becoming a more popular tool in the UK to reduce coccidiosis, their aim is to populate your farm with oocysts that are sensitive to anticoccidial drugs and which replicate less in the birds and therefore cause less damage to the guts.
You can find Elliott’s full article in this link:
Coccidiosis in broilers – what role will new vaccines play? – Farmers Weekly (fwi.co.uk)
PHS North West (Preston) and South West (Devon)
Our PHS North West Team is lucky enough to share our Preston practice site with LLM Farm Vets Lancashire, and we have celebrated our long-standing presence there with a new sign! Please feel free to contact our North West team at [email protected] or on 01829740639 for all of your poultry and gamebird needs.
Our PHS Devon team shares a practice with Mount Vets Farm Practice. Please feel free to contact our PHS Devon branch on 01404 841011 for all your poultry and gamebird needs or email [email protected]
Have you cleaned your feed bins and control room lately?
If the answer is “no” then we at PHS recommend using Fumagri HA. Fumagri HA is ideal for treating feed bins and control rooms. This is an area that we are finding gets easily and consistently overlooked by the washing teams. Each 16g can treat 20 cubic metres, which is the size of most control rooms. Each can treats feed bins of around 9 tonnes. Fumagri HA is a disinfectant smoke bomb fogger that eradicates fungal and bacterial contamination
For more information on Fumagri HA or to place and order, please contact Maurice on 01347 820373 or email [email protected]. Please note that any purchase may incur a delivery charge if it is below a minimum order cost.
Remember that we supply a large selection of Defra-approved disinfectants and consumables at very competitive prices through our sister company AgriCure Farm Supplies.
Looking ahead to the December newsletter…….
Can you believe December is almost upon us? Next month we will share some important information with you regarding our opening hours, salmonella testing and deliveries throughout the Christmas & New Year period.
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Do you have a vacancy? Or want to sell equipment? Are you struggling to recruit? In Spring 2022, we launched the new PHS ‘Classifieds’ section – an online space for advertising jobs, equipment, services, and more for the poultry and gamebird industry in the UK. Please contact your local PHS branch for more information or to send us your advert. This service is available for free to PHS clients and for a small fee to non-clients.
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