Home remey for GIANT horse flies????

crysann

Hey Everyone, I've been missing for a while, i hope this fines y'all happy and healthy. Man, this weather, too hot to do anything here. haha.
Anyway, i have been buying bronco and Pyranha like it's going out of style. the cost is getting a little silly and i was wondering if anyone knows of a home made recipe that I can put together here. Our horse flies are about an inch or more bigger and when they bit me or the horses you bleed forever. My pretty gray mare and our paint look horrible (being white and all) they have bloody spots all over them. I put spray on them twice a day now, every time I feed but within about an hour of so the flies are back at it. Any ideas?
i appreciate the help in advance
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crysann · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject:

Ok did some research and found this recipe:

2 cups white vinegar, 1 Cup Avon Skin So Soft bath oil (original), 1 Cup water and if you can get it 1 Tablespoon eucaliptus oil. Mix in a spray bottle.

It works, really really well. I only have to apply it about once every other day and it is helping with summer itch on the horses faces. Their coats are shiny and look wonderful. I actually like it better then pyrhana. It doesn't leave that oily beaded dirt look that pyrhana does and it smells a whole lot better. i also found that it keeps mosquitos and ticks away. I apply a little to a rag and rub it in their ears and behind their halter strap.
Anyway, i hope someone else out there finds this useful, I am very pleased with this.
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My life is not measured by the people I've known, but by the horses I have LOVED.

EAhola · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 152 Location: Colorado

I user 50% apple cider, 50% water, 20% Shapley's Original MTG, and then 1 Tblsp citronella (spelling ?).

I actually think its the MTG that works.

I'd be interested in seeing what other people think if they add some MTG to their mixtures because mine didn't work that great till I added MTG.

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