Fly Products

Many fly prevention products make wonderful claims, (to get you to spend your hard earned dollars); but results are mixed. Many factors contribute to how well or how poorly a fly prevention product performs. Forgoing the chemistry and other technical discussions, some factors are:

1. Cleanliness of the horse at application.
2. Product application.
3. Time between applications.
4. How often your horse rolls in the field.
5. How often and how much your horse sweats.
6. Whether the horse is in the rain.
8. Product quality.

We have tried several products following the application requirements, and most work for a day or two, even the ones that claims to work for 14 days. Therefore, we do not use fly spray that is sprayed on because of the variables listed above.

We recommend:

* Stalls be kept clean
* Disposed of manure properly
* Rake (with a harrow) your fields at least three times a week
* Install large, industrial fans (out of the horse’s reach) in the stalls (the fans not only help to keep the flies off the horses, it cools a stall considerably.)
* Install and change frequently fly strips.

Here are the fly products we have tried. We use the strips and round traps, as together with the above recommendations, keep flies to a minimum.

Fly Strip Fly Round Trap Fly Bag

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