Cecil Bearden
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:59:16 -0700
Carol: I use permethrin and add 1 oz to 1 qt of mineral oil and out it down their backs. I just drill a small hole in the bottle cap and give them a line down their backs. The other day I had a lamb get bitten by a dog or something... He had a terrible bite wound that ended up with maggots in it. However we got the maggots killed after the first day and they really helped by eating the dead flesh away. I used scarlet oil spray and it killed all the maggots. Then I gave the little guy a line of scarlet spray down his back and also my 2 dogs that were being eaten up by flies. This is 5 days later and I have no fly problem on these animals. I also used it on 2 more lambs. The blonde one has a red line on her ( my bottle baby) but no flies. Scarlet oil has a lot of eucalyptus oil in it. I have ordered eucalyptus oil and citronella and I am going to try to make a spray for them. I would suggest getting the sheep to walk under an old rug or whatever soaked with fly preventative as they go out of the barn or whatever. Cecil in OKla Carol Elkins wrote: > Sometimes quiet is a good thing. It means that no one is having > problems with their sheep. Most of us are between lambings, watching > our ewes get fat again and planning for little legs to hit the ground > again in the fall. Here in Colorado, we've had a very wet spring and > summer, producing a good stand of grass and alfalfa for grazing. > Llast week we finally settled into the "dog days" with temps in the > upper nineties and lower one hundreds. Now it's too hot to think about sheep! > > We've had a lot of new people subscribe to the list, and this would > be an excellent time for them to ask the zillion questions they have > about raising blackbelly sheep. This is the friendliest group of > helpful people I've ever had the privilege to work with, and all of > our discussions are respectful and kind. There are no "dumb > questions," and even those questions that have been asked and > answered before always seem to prompt new discussions from which I > learn stuff I never knew before. > > I'm still struggling with the fly problem here. I keep looking for > one of those things that they have for cows that spreads some fly > repellant along their back when they walk under it. The barn sprays > I've tried do little; diatomaceous earth hasn't produced any > noticeable reduction in flies, and I don't want to try to catch and > manually apply spray to each sheep in my flock. I have hung jugs > containing smelly lures, but I think the smell is attracting far more > flies than would normally hang around in my barn and not necessarily > trapping them in the jug. So if anyone has a tried-and-true fly > reduction method, I'd sure like to hear it. > > Carol > > > At 06:54 PM 7/23/2007, Sharon wrote: > >> This is a test. It been very quiet lately. >> > > > > > Carol Elkins > Critterhaven--Registered Barbados Blackbelly Hair Sheep > (no shear, no dock, no fuss) > Pueblo, Colorado > http://www.critterhaven.biz > T-shirts, mugs, caps, and more at the > Barbados Blackbelly Online Store http://www.cafepress.com/blackbellysheep > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list > Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info > > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info