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Tips
For Summer
Well, summer is still here and so are the biting flies. I don’t know about your horses, but mine have started to
look for big trees to scratch their rear ends on.
They make a complete mess of their tails and tail
hairs!
Short
of bundling them up in a winter blanket to keep them from
rubbing (as if that would work) I decided to try a natural way
to keep them comfortable.
After many different remedies, I found that putting
vinegar in a spray bottle and spraying it on the tail, rubbing
it in and leaving it, makes a world of difference.
I am not sure what it does, but the next morning, the
tail is clean, no “scarf” on the tail bone and no more
scratching! I have heard that vinegar is a miracle mixture, and I guess
now it is!
 Another
great invention is fly leg wraps to keep the flies off their
legs and keeps them from stomping and injuring their
legs/feet. They are about 34.00 for a set of 4….actually 4 would be
enough for 2 horses since the tails usually keep the flies off
the back legs.
One
website to get these is: tackshop
There are probably others, but these seem to stay up
longer and last for longer washings.
I kept these for 2 years before they wasted away to
nothing!
If you
don’t want to buy fly wraps and still need to keep the nasty
flies away from your horses legs, you can always put a tea
tree ointment (or Vaseline works but it is messier)
on their legs and the flies stay away all day. It is by
Animal Legends, called Tea Tree Ade Salve and really works
well.
Countdown…..
only 2 more months until we put away the fly masks!
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