The Australian Livestock Backrubber Insecticide Applicator is used to control or eradicate Buffalo Fly and thus relieve livestock of the ravages of that insect in an economical, efficient and effective manner. Tests conducted by well over one hundred Studmasters and cattle and horse breeders, over a period exceeding forty years, have proved that the use of oil type Backrubber Applicators goes a long way in the control of Buffalo Fly. Results of 80% control are common.
On properties where they are in use the livestock are far more contented and show good disposition. The all cosmetic value is maintained and the resultant weight grain is quite noticeable. Gary Wessel, a former contract cane cutter is now making livestock Backrubber Applicators (after his father Bert Wessel designed the first model in 1976) to protect against Buffalo Fly, as a full-time business which is expanding rapidly. The Backrubber Applicators are being snapped up in large quantities by cattlemen who recognise the advantages of cattle applying their own insecticide.
