Working Together for Healthy Beef Production
Elanco's comprehensive product portfolio helps you to improve cattle health, welfare and production for optimal herd health and beef performance.
Beef educational articles
Learn more about potential challenges to your beef operation and how you can manage and control these costly and harmful diseases.
Treatment and management of coccidiosis in cattle
When to treat for coccidiosis can be a matter of knowing the farm’s history and when challenges are expected. Read more about the treatment and management of coccidiosis in calves.
Cattle ectoparasites
Effectively managing ectoparasites in cattle can be one of the biggest challenges faced by beef producers. In South Africa we have a vast array of ectoparasites which occur during different times during the year. Read more about these parasites and how to effectively control them.
Improving Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle
Feed costs play a significant role in the profitability of a beef operation. In recent years, feed costs have continued to rise, and weather changes have affected the quantity and quality of the feed available. Because of this, producers have to make some tough decisions regarding finances and profit margins.
Elanco Beef Product Portfolio
Elanco provides innovative animal health products that help to control a range of internal and external parasites, as well as improve cattle productivity and address nutritional deficiencies. Discover Elanco’s leading animal health products to support herd health and performance.
Drastic Deadline™ eXtreme
• Controls ticks on cattle, including amidine, pyrethroid and organophosphate resistant strains of Blue Tick.
• Reduces egg production of female ticks and inhibits development of tick eggs.
• Inhibits development of Blue Tick larvae and nymphs to adults.
• Controls tsetse fly worry on cattle.
• Controls red lice on cattle.
• Prolonged residual action.
• Proven rainfast.
When regularly applied to cattle grazing on pasture, Drastic Deadline Extreme may be used as an aid to reduce the level of tick challenge on these pastures
Drastic Deadline™
Ectoparasiticide pour-on for instant use on cattle, sheep and game.
• Controls ticks, (including Karoo Paralysis ticks).
• Controls tsetse fly worry on cattle.
• Controls red lice on cattle.
• Sterilises female ticks.
• Residual action against ticks: Blue ticks: 21 to 28 days. Multi-host ticks: Up to 2 weeks.
• Non-systemic action.
• Proven rainfast.
When regularly applied to cattle grazing on pasture, Drastic Deadline may be used as an aid in reducing the size of tick populations on said pasture.
How to Contact Us
If you want to find out more about our products and services, please contact us today.
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Registration Holder: Elanco Animal Health (Pty) Ltd., Co. Reg. No. 2019/163893/07. N1 Business Park, Old Pretoria Road, Kosmosdal
Ext 7, Gauteng, 0157, South Africa. Tel: +27 12 657 6200 / +27 12 657 6214.
