salt and/or mineral blocks with garlic??????

Anonymous-0 · May 15, 2010

hey folks,
anything like that available in the States? Like to get some garlic in the horses for fly protection but they like it about as much as I do. There's a product from the UK available here but for the price, I could hire someone to follow the horses around with a fly swatter.

Dave

Lou from Wi. · May 15, 2010

Hey dave. TRY KLEVLAR COATS.If they stop bullets, fly's dont stand a chance. lol.

chrisinsoky · May 15, 2010

flys like horses more then dogspit for some reason, have you tried putting a table spoon of apple cidar vinegar in there grain? that worked for us pretty good, it takes about a week to really start to work good, you have to keep up with it.
anouther thing to try its more on the pricey side is a product called warpaint, it sold at most equine stores it supposed to last a few days, but weve had good luck wih that too

Anonymous-0 · May 16, 2010

(quoted from post at 17:28:49 05/15/10) have you tried putting a table spoon of apple cidar vinegar in there grain? that worked for us pretty good, it takes about a week to really start to work good, you have to keep up with it.

never heard of the vinegar...... We don't feed grain in summer (not much in winter either). We have 250 and 400 gal portable water tanks though.Wonder how much vinegar I'd have to put in one to get enough in to a horse? Little monkey math to see that they would get about a tablespon a day (1 TS per 5gal of water??)? We have and use a concentrated fly spray mix that works good but for 15 horses, it gets a little time consuming and I really don't like using chemicals on them.

Think the vinegar in the water would work?

Dave

chrisinsoky · May 18, 2010

u can lightly rub the vinegar on the horses, just keep it away from the nasel passages, (i dont think it would hurt them but i would be arfiad it would irratate the crap out of them. also keep it from there eyes) and i dont think diluting it with water would help much but give it try. i would think the horses would quite drinkin the water.

chrisinsoky · May 18, 2010

u can lightly rub the vinegar on the horses, just keep it away from the nasel passages, (i dont think it would hurt them but i would be arfiad it would irratate the crap out of them. also keep it from there eyes) and i dont think diluting it with water would help much but give it try. i would think the horses would quite drinkin the water.
as far as the vinegar gos it works really well, even on those july/augast horse flys that draw blood, youll also notice a decreace in the bot fly eggs laid in the hais of the horses

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