This message is from: "Donna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Taffy,
I got this off the net somewhere?? a couple of years ago. It lists
different recipes for horse fly sprays. Hope it helps
Donna
Flies
2 cups White Vinegar
1 Cup Avon Skin-So-Soft
1 Cup Water
1 Tablespoon Eucalyptus Oil
Mix well and apply with a spray bottle.
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one part Apple-Cider Vinegar
one part Water
one part Blue Dawn Dishwashing Liquid
Mix well and apply with a spray bottle.
**The Dawn has dried some horses skin**
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1 Tablespoon Eucalyptus Oil
2 Tablespoons Citronella Oil
1 Tablespoon Camphor Oil
1/3 Cup Hair Conditioner
1/3 Cup Baby Oil
1 Cup Pine Sol (original formula)
Water
Mix well in a 32 oz. spray bottle and fill the
remainder with water.
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If you decide to play with the
recipe, remember that you must have an emulsifier to
break down the oils to enable the mixture to mix and be
sprayed. Pine Sol has a lot of emulsifiers; the hair
conditioner has some too (Suave has quite a bit, more
than other brands)
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2 Cups Light Mineral Oil
1/2 Cup Lemon Juice
2 Teaspoons Citronella Oil
2 Teaspoons Eucalyptus Oil
2 Teaspoons Lemon Dish Detergent
1/2 Cup Glycerin (optional)
Mix well and apply with a spray bottle.
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1/2 cup apple-cider vinegar
Mix it in your horses grain daily and you will start
noticing less flies in about two weeks.
Adding Brewer's Yeast, Garlic, and desiccated liver
supplement will also help repel insects.
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Tie a bounce sheet to your saddle horn to repel insects.
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Mosquitoes
1 T Vanilla extract
1 C Water
The vanilla keeps the mosquitoes away.
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For the Barn
this will get rid of spiders
Lysol
Mix Lysol and water. The mixture does not have to be
very strong. Wash down walls etc. One application
should last all season.
I go into the garden center and buy one of those one gallon pesticide
sprayers. It holds a gallon, comes with a carrying strap and you pump it up
a few times and squeeze the trigger.
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Plants that repel insects...
Flying insects
Basil
Bay Leaves
Cloves
Lemon Basil
Tansy
Pyrethrum
Shoo-Fly plant
Fleas and Ticks
Fleabane Daisy
Rosemary
Pennyroyal
Wasps
Sprinkle scouring powder in a can of tuna fish. Put it in a wire cage so
your cats can not get to it. It will attract the wasps and kill them.
Oils that repel insects...
Try mixing some of these in with your fly mixes.
Peppermint oil
Citronella,
Lemon Grass,
Pennyroyal (fleas),
Tea Tree Oil (ticks, leeches, and lice)
Lavender
Make your own flytrap:
3 cups Water
1/4 cup Sugar
1/4 cup Vinegar
Mix ingredients. Place in a jar or can with holes in the lid. Place were
needed.
Is anyone using vinegar in the horses feed or water or as a spray for
flies? If so, how much? . Amounts added or mixture equations would be
greatly
appreciated!
Taffy >
