This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Sue Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message is from: "Sue Harrison" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi...How is everyone making out in the battle of the > horse fly? The blasted > things were right inside the flyshed chewing away.on > the horses...we brought > them in and wiped them all over with flyspray....and > I remember reading in > here that good old fashioned Listerine mouth wash > will work for no see-ums > and mosquitos...and I was wondering how well it > works on horse flies?
Sue, I'm the one who uses Listerine for no see-ums and mosquitos. Down here it doesn't work on horse flies. The best thing I've found for flies around here is Bio-Groom Repel 35. It's a spray-on and I just spray a rag and wipe it on the 'ticklish spots' and face, then spray the rest of the horse. It lasts up to a week or 10 days if the weather is dry. three or four days if it's kind of rainy - only one day if it's a downpour outside and they really get wet. Bio-Groom also makes a couple of horse shampoos - one regular shampoo and one for lice and other 'vermin'. Have used the one for lice, etc., with good success when Line used to have a lice problem. She no longer has the problem since the neighbors sold their decidedly scruffy llamas(not all llamas are scruffy, just theirs) which shared the woods with Line. I swear that's where the lice came from all those years - yeah, I know, I know, lice are 'host specific'. Not these guys!! I've never seen that particular type of lice on a horse before, and neither had my vet. He thought maybe she brought them with her from Norway! Nah! They were the same 'bugs' that the llamas had - don't know where they brought them from. Anyway, try the Bio Groom, if you can find it. I get it from my feedstore(Cenex) or out of the Valley Vet or Omaha Vaccine catalog. Mary ===== Mary Thurman Raintree Farms [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
