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| Does anyone have experience with fly predators when you have no conventional manure pile to place them in?
I'm moving in with my fiancé and the only thing that drives me up the wall is the number of flies we get in the house in the summer - admittedly some of this is him leaving the dang door open, we'll work on that.
We don't have a conventional manure pile, horses are in large lots that we clean as needed and spread immediately. The biggest bringer of flies are probably the cows though when they come up behing the horse pastures to hit the auto watered.
Can we spread the predators out there around the cow manure? Will they overlap and handle the horse manure in the adjacent pens? |
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I only use mine for the dog pen and clean up their poo regularly. I have great luck with the fly predators. I put them around behind the dog house, in the trees/lilac bushes etc. We have too many cattle/sheep/horses to use them around the barn. It would cost a fortune lol |
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| I would be happy to just use them around the house!!! |
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Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | OhMax - 2016-03-24 7:12 PM I would be happy to just use them around the house!!!
I have used them around 5+ yrs now. I know by the 2nd year we really noticed a big difference, but we learned to start earlier in the year. Our corrals and barn are fairly close to the house. Maybe 50 yrs (heck I don't know), but anyways we do get flies hanging out and sneaking in the house. The dog pen is just a fenced off part of my yard for my Corgi and Border Collie. The flies were just eating their ears terribly. It is much better with the little fly guys doing their thing. |
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Location: SE KS | Fly Predators are great!!! However, if there are cattle in the vicinity, they don't seem to work as well!! Plus they don't do anything for green heads or the large black horse flies either!!! I still love the fly predators though!!!
We sprinkle them in our stalls, around the doors of the barn & the manure pile!! |
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Location: north dakota | I keep thinking about using them but with 80 head of cattle in my yard for the winter I'd have to buy a bunch. |
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| I think generally the cattle ar far enough away it won't be a huge issue, plus we're only 1 of the 4 pastures we'll rotate through the summer.
Really just want to control them around the house, the barn would be a bonus.
When do you generally start putting them out and how often do you replenish? |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | OhMax - 2016-03-26 8:41 AM I think generally the cattle ar far enough away it won't be a huge issue, plus we're only 1 of the 4 pastures we'll rotate through the summer. Really just want to control them around the house, the barn would be a bonus. When do you generally start putting them out and how often do you replenish?
Give them your location and they can tell you optimum starting time. For my area, east Tennessee it's usually mid to late February. I was a little late getting mine. They go as far as 150' but they recommend placing them around 50' from where you want to control flies and in a damper area. I spread in the corner of the stalls and then put some out on the pasture on fresh piles. I put most of them closest to the areas where I know the horses hang out a lot. We have cows on the back side of our pasture so I put a few back there but not a whole lot. |
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Location: SE KS | OhMax - 2016-03-26 8:41 AM
I think generally the cattle ar far enough away it won't be a huge issue, plus we're only 1 of the 4 pastures we'll rotate through the summer.
Really just want to control them around the house, the barn would be a bonus.
When do you generally start putting them out and how often do you replenish?
I "spread" some Sunday afternoon!! |
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