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| Is there an easy way to remove the eggs. I have a yearling that is covered and is not happy with the bot comb. Is there anything you can spray on them to kill the egg? Looking for an easy way out. |
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| I was reading a post about this yesterday. Sounds like getting the eggs damp with a wash cloth and then a few minutes later going over them with the Slick Easy grooming block is a trick many people find to work. |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | I saw a post that said someone put vinegar on them! i would think rubbing alcohol would work better, and benefit the horses legs too. but hey! whatever works! im gonna try both.! |
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| I don't worry about them. Just keep the horses wormed. You have to worm for them anyway. Have been dealing with them for over 50 years |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | The bot comb is the only thing that works for me, I try to get all the eggs off when I'm brushing them every day during the season of bots, I hate seeing them on my horses.. Sometimes if theres a ton on the legs are belly area I'll get my shears out and buzz them off in the spots that they are heavy in. I set the shears in the long setting to wear you can hardly tell I cheated. 
Edited by Southtxponygirl 2017-10-03 1:34 PM
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Location: on my horse | I've been using a dull pocket knife  it does scrape them right off. |
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| streakysox - 2017-10-03 1:22 PM
I don't worry about them. Just keep the horses wormed. You have to worm for them anyway. Have been dealing with them for over 50 years
Ditto, I probably brush those areas a little harder but we don’t do anything special.
Worm for them as soon as the first hard freeze hits. |
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Location: SW MO | Buy a grill cleaning block. If they don't have a small one you can cut it in to. Just rub it over them. They come right off |
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| redmansmyman11 - 2017-10-04 12:18 AM
I've been using a dull pocket knife it does scrape them right off.
^^^Ditto. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | I like a black grooming block. You have to work a little harder than with the knife but it would be duller and a little different sensation for your yearling and so he might behave better. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | SInce no question is a stupid question - only not asking is - does liquid fly spray kill the bot eggs? Or is their physical makeup so dense that it cannot penetrate and kill the egg? |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I cut them off with scissors |
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| I usually end up picking them off one at a time. Since I am fairly isolated, if I keep them picked off after a few years I have very few to deal with. I also make sure they get wormed with a bot killer.
For those that just use wormer....are you aware of the damage those bots do to a horse's stomach lining while they are growing until you get the wormer in them?? I'd rather try to stop as much damage as I can. But that is me. |
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| I was just thinking I hadn't seen any bot Flys for a while...but today I saw one buzzing around my colts leg.. he was clearly irritated by it. Darn, I just de wormed them this morning with equimax. I hate those darn things! |
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Location: CTX | I use a bot knife most of the time, sometimes I have to pick them off with my nails...
I was riding the other day in the pasture and we had one buzzing around, hit it with my hat a couple of times but it kept coming back, and clearly irritating my boy so I ended up smashing it on his side.... |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | cranky B4 10am - 2017-10-04 6:40 PM I use a bot knife most of the time, sometimes I have to pick them off with my nails...
I was riding the other day in the pasture and we had one buzzing around, hit it with my hat a couple of times but it kept coming back, and clearly irritating my boy so I ended up smashing it on his side....
When they buzz my horses and I'm around I catch the bots and pull their little heads off.  |
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Location: CTX | Southtxponygirl - 2017-10-04 6:50 PM cranky B4 10am - 2017-10-04 6:40 PM I use a bot knife most of the time, sometimes I have to pick them off with my nails...
I was riding the other day in the pasture and we had one buzzing around, hit it with my hat a couple of times but it kept coming back, and clearly irritating my boy so I ended up smashing it on his side.... When they buzz my horses and I'm around I catch the bots and pull their little heads off.
Sounds like a great way of getting rid of them!!! |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | I use a razor, like the ones I shave my legs with, go with the lay of the hair and it takes the eggs and barely any hair, easy and cheap. |
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Location: MO | Clippers.....after I get frustrated with everything else that doesn't work fast enough. I'm impatient and don't have the time.  |
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Location: MN | Barnmom - 2017-10-04 11:54 PM I use a razor, like the ones I shave my legs with, go with the lay of the hair and it takes the eggs and barely any hair, easy and cheap.
I forgot about this trick! I remember it working very well for me growing up. Thank you for jogging my memory |
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