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Location: London Ontario | Bug season is upon us and I would really like to keep them at bay this year. Everyone has a fly mask on during the day, our stalls are picked daily and completely scrapped put every four-ish days and re bedded. We also drag pastures every few weeks and pick pens weekly. Our troughs and buckets are clean and re filled(if we wouldn't drink out of it, we don't make our horses...) I try to fly spray the horses before kicked outside after riding as well as away at races. Is there anything else you have found that really works? Fly eater things or maybe feeding garlic? Thanks! |
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 Unknown Drip
Posts: 5624
Location: Back in MT BABY!!! | We feed ACV & garlic to our horses...but chickens are the best at actually decreasing the amount of flies/bugs at your place. |
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 Take a Picture
Posts: 12841
 
| I use fly predators but I think the darn fire ants eat them up! Talk about an insect problem. |
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Sparklin Cowgirl
Posts: 4379
| I had pretty good luck with Smart Bug Off Ultra from Smart Pak last year.
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 Tried and True
Posts: 21185
Location: Where I am happiest | We have no flys here at all. I clean like you do, 2x a day. The biggest thing is you have to eliminate their breeding ground and keep it eliminated. So if you have a manuer pile, you will have to get rid of it and do so often. Either keep it tilled in, or haul it off. Any decaying organic matter is fly breeding ground. |
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Posts: 1313
Location: Georgia | shoo fly leggings?? Ive really though hard on buying all mine some to keep them from stomping constantly |
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 Elite Veteran
Posts: 725
| Happy Horse Fly Boots! A local girl sells them, so pm me if you want info. They are amazing!
Fly-eliminators do not make a dent in our fly population. |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 307
Location: Florida | As far as in the barn goes, this is going to sound crazy, but take ziplock bags, (we use quart size) fill them up 1/2 way with water, seal them and tack them up on rafters, gates, etc. Somewhere horses can't bite at them or anything. We live in FL where flies are INSANE and we barely have any flies, horseflies, even the gnats are 1/4 what they were before and they just stay by any fresh... fertilizer ;) |
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 Good Grief!
Posts: 6343
Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | well we dont have flies or any bugs to speak of YET...but i keep a smudge going once the skeeters and noseums get bad....thats my solution
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