April 2002

Make Your Barn The Last Stop For Flies

If you’re beginning to feel your barn is becoming a fancy fly resort, you need to invest in better security. Think flytrap.

Disposable fly traps might be disgusting when ûused up, but they're effective and inexpensive.

When it comes to flies, there are two basic facts of life: First, you can’t eliminate them. Second, controlling them inevitably costs time and money, and anything that can reduce those costs is worth investigating.

There’s no arguing that applying insecticides to your horse and systems that mist the barn—including the stalls and horses—at regular intervals do control flies inside. However, since topical repellents are usually needed outside in pastures and the arena, we wanted ways to slash the fly populations inside the barn without directly subjecting the horse to more pesticide. …