Snake Oil salesmen move in on the BBKA convention

[peter genders]

piperazine for roundworms to cheap and too effective no longer available.

 

[Hivemaker.]

piperazine for roundworms to cheap and too effective no longer available.

Piperazine
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Pet-Supp...TF8&qid=1491683996&sr=8-1&keywords=piperazine

Benzyl Benzoate
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/1816...=9046984&device=c&campaignid=707291931&crdt=0

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Benzyl-Ben...id=1491684537&sr=8-6&keywords=benzyl+benzoate

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Piperazine
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Pet-Supp...TF8&qid=1491683996&sr=8-1&keywords=piperazine

Benzyl Benzoate
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/1816...=9046984&device=c&campaignid=707291931&crdt=0

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Benzyl-Ben...id=1491684537&sr=8-6&keywords=benzyl+benzoate

500ml of B-B used to be around £4 over the counter at the local pharmacy - same quantity above now £18+ from Ebay
I rest my case.

 

[Hivemaker.]

500ml of B-B used to be around £4 over the counter at the local pharmacy

Petrol used to be five bob a gallon, that has gone up in price too, most things do.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Petrol used to be five bob a gallon, that has gone up in price too, most things do.

£4 to £18 in about 3 years and with a gap in availability when Sweet Itchy horse owners were tearing their hair out watching afflicted animals rub themselves raw was quite distressing for the animals and the owners. I knew one owner who became desperate enough to travel to Belgium to buy 25 litres.
Odd how the UK is always the one to blindly obey edicts.

Oh and petrol was two shillings a gallon when i had my first motorbike.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Oh and petrol was two shillings a gallon when i had my first motorbike.

I remember those first 50p night time self service pumps, used to carry an empty can to put the extra petrol in, as the almost empty motorbike tank would not take all of it.

Bit more than three years, about ten ... Thymol crystals have more than tripled in price.

 

[Hivemaker.]

hi for birds and rodents not dogs or bees thanks for your help.

Here is one for dogs...piperazine citrate 9.4% w/v

suitable for treating whole litters and mothers. Also suitable for older pets that do not like to take tablets. Supplied in easy-to-use pump dispenser.

https://fetch.co.uk/beaphar-worming...5ml-90592011?gclid=CM-0x87vldMCFaoW0wodpyIFDQ

How would you use it on your bees.

 

[Millet]

Calamine lotion got rid of my scabies when i was a kid, it took around a week but it fettled the little fookers..

 

[For want of a better word]

Asked the bloke on the Lyson stand if they were manufacturing a press to flatten out rhubarb leaves... who needs snake oil?

Yeghes da

 

[Cussword]

It's amazing how they ban the sale of all the cheap things that work and licence and peddle the expensive things that don't isn't it ?

The problem is that they ban the cheap stuff then re-market it with a different name, at a highly inflated price

 

[Cussword]

Oh and petrol was two shillings a gallon when i had my first motorbike.

2/-6 for mine.

 

[Erichalfbee]

2/-6 for mine.

The first pint of beer I had was 2/6

 

[Tremyfro]

Ho Ho...I've come upon a bunch of Old Timey's doing a...I remember when...
Times do move on though. Now we use Neem oil for horses with sweet itch...diatematious Earth for fleas and ticks...and can be used for worming too.
There has been a big movement away from expensive veterinary supplied medicants. We do worm counts instead of just routinely pushing wormers through their systems.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Ho Ho...I've come upon a bunch of Old Timey's doing a...I remember when...
.

The idea of getting drunk for 50p is quite attractive/appalling. Strike out which doesn't apply

 

[Brian Bush]

The first pint of beer I had was 2/6

Youngster!!! Mine was 1/9pence

 

[Cussword]

Youngster!!! Mine was 1/9pence

Ha,, 1/-4