There are a few weeks during the year that I feel I must use fly spray... But they normally aren't much of an issue around here. Except this year during the month of May it was terrible around here, and I'm not sure why. I have a bug zapper going all the time, and I have disposable fly bags that I change regularily. So when the numbers seem to be higher I take action against them, besides just using fly spray.
However, all the horses around here are good for fly spray except for Kria and Gusti. They will allow me to spray it on a sponge and then sponge it on them, and sometimes I can sneak a few squirts here and there on Kria...but Gusti only allows the sponge. He's been that way since he was a baby and I'm not sure why. His mom was great with spray too. Gusti doesn't like water much, so maybe it has something to do with that. But try as I might...clicker training and all....that's one spot where Gusti draws the line. No spraying... Dagur, Solon, Peppy and Elska...all stand quietly while I spray them down...but not the other two. So I'm not sure whether it was a hole in Kria's training or if it's something in that line of horses... but I know it wasn't a hole in Gusti's training because I really tried with him. But just reading Robyn's comment now about how a horse might grow up, I agree, there are no stinking flies in Vernon...none... So Kria would have had no reason to learn about fly spray. Wanda
