Thanks from Chicago

Putting this in my back pocket for the new property! I like getting rid of them verses preventing horses being bothered with tons of spray. And love that you're treating the poop carpet! 😂

Summercoat Sally is adorable

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

isn't she lovely?

@TheValueOfLaughing

4 жыл бұрын

Versatile Horsemanship It was so nice to see Sally and the rest of the herd!

I use them and they are absolutely awesome!

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

Yay!

Thanks for sharing very educational information! I'll have to try them out!

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, I’m glad you found it helpful

Good Morning Brandy, Have a Special day.

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

Good morning! Thank you, I hope you have a special day too!

Manzer is adorable.

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

Isn’t he just the cutest?

So many horses I have never seen before 😍

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don’t typically show my boarders horses. I thought this was a good time to do it.

Hi Brandi. One of the MOST IMPORTANT things to do...flies. I still pull bot fly eggs when doing a grooming. I don't mind long sessons like this. Barns are crazy to keep under control, so the right product is important. 🤗❤ Then Rosie shows up ...🤣

@MrHorsepro

4 жыл бұрын

A little FYI about Botflies and their eggs. Typical bot fly eggs found on the legs of horses are a capsule containing an immature larva that when the horse’s saliva contacts the outside of the capsule it will trigger it to open and the horse ingest the larva by licking the area where it has emerged. It then progresses through the digestive system and lodges in the stomach and small intestine. Where it feeds off the blood supply of the intestinal wall. It at maturity will then pass out through the digestive tract and fall onto and burrow into the ground to then complete its life cycle to emerge as a fly in the following spring and the cycle starts all over again. Throat latch bots are only different in that they prefer to lay their eggs around the horse throat latch. They are thankfully rare. Because they typically cause the horse to strike out a lot when they are buzzing about laying their eggs. This can be dangerous for any personnel near the horse when this is happening. The only difference in them and the common bot fly is that the larva spontaneously emerges without external stimulation and they make their way down the face to the mouth or nostrils and enter the digestive system that way. Both varieties of local populations are easily controlled by well-timed worming procedures, that kill the larva inside the animal thus interrupting the life cycle of the local populations. It is even more effective is all animal keepers in a locality work together to employ good parasite control. A lab technician and horse owner friend of mine years ago did a little impromptu lab test to see what would cause the eggs to open or kill the larva inside the egg and found that a mild 2% solution of bleach and water would cause the eggs to open and the larva to emerge. However, it will also bleach the horse’s hair, so it was not very practical. However, after removing them with a pumas stone, bot comb, or blade it can be quite satisfying to burn them with a propane fire starter.

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

Gosh I haven't seen a bot fly egg in years. So strange because there are other barns in our area that have them really bad. Maybe the fly predators take care of them too?

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

And just think, as a kid I used to pick them off with my fingernails! So gross!!

@suzystone244

4 жыл бұрын

@@VersatileHorsemanship im so thankful for awesome information that comes my way. Truly appreciate

@MrHorsepro

4 жыл бұрын

@@VersatileHorsemanship To the best of my knowledge fly preditors will not pursue bot larva. I suspect it is because the larva burrow too deep into the ground for them to be reached by the tiny predators and the preditors are very specific to one kind of fly. My guess would be that your worming program is very effective and thus the relative absence of bots on your facility. Additionally, if your pasture and paddocks are regularly cleaned of manure the bots will have less of an opportunity to borrow in before they are disturbed. Since they are passed out in manure and immediately begin to burrow into the ground under the manure pile. They are environmentally sensitive that is what they burrow deep into the ground. If your ground is inhospitable due to excessive minerals or acids that are toxic to the larva or it freezes very dep in the winter could account for a substantial kill off the larva as well. www.fly-off.co.uk/do-you-know-why-bot-eggs-are-more-than-just-an-annoyance.html

Oh wow !that's different! should try 🤔this year ,the flies here have not been bad haven't really seen bees either one two maybe. Its weird . Thanks Brandi good advice🥰

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

They really help

@AnimaltestedLoveapproved

4 жыл бұрын

@@VersatileHorsemanship thanks😉😘

Interesting, I didn't know about them for manure. Is there any risk horses eat them with hay or grass ? I love all your horses following you to enquire about the package content 😄 edit : neither did I see your board horses before, all lovely..

Everybody hates those pesky flies! 😍

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

They are terrible

Mum's brought food !! Oh perhaps not !! Hate flies, the only downside of warm weather. Pretty humid in the UK at the moment ( rare for us !!) Flies are constantly coming in the house through anywhere they can get, l'm sure they can read the label on the fly spray though, they seem to vanish soonas that comes out of the cupboard!! Manzer is looking a cool handsome chap !

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

flies really are a bummer, especially when there is one in the house who won't leave you alone. I send my son with the flyswatter 😂

@janicetaylor2486

4 жыл бұрын

@@VersatileHorsemanship - Send him over, l'll pay his fare 😅😅 !!!

Hi Brandi, bless your heart for this suggestion!! Ive never heard of “fly predators”, but the flys here in Northern Utah were beyond awful last summer and Fall.. We are going to try these out on our farm this summer... Do you have a sponsor link we should use to give you a kickback? 😊 Love your channel, thanks so much for sharing such great info!!

@VersatileHorsemanship

6 ай бұрын

Thank you. I don’t have sponsors, just sharing what works for me.

can u recommend or make a video for a pony/horse going on a big diet because I have a pony who is way over weight so I cut down on her grass and ride her for longer but is there anything more i can do or what I'm doing is right

👏❤

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

fighting nature with nature 😁

Looks like you could you a seed spreader for that job, just a suggestion

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t mind walking around and doing it

Brandi, you could do modeling......

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

Oh gosh, that’s very kind of you

@didiask4927

4 жыл бұрын

@@VersatileHorsemanship they're speaking facts

Are fly predators like Mealybugs? I've seen mealybugs & miniature wasps here in South Africa but the stomoxys calcitrans breed faster than their predators. I also see the mealy bugs in the stables bedding at some stable yards. I have one video on my channel. #flybraai It's very effective for places where biting flies are out of control. The horse owners take a while to accept the noise but the horses get used to the zaps fairly quickly. They don't like the sound initialy assuming it reminds them of the cracking of a whip nearby but can see the flies dying and ignore the noise. My guess is the flies biting them all day bothers them more. Some owners spray their horses with products that contain Deet. I'm not sure that's too good long term for the horse either? Grant Giliomee

@VersatileHorsemanship

3 ай бұрын

Hi Grant, thanks for commenting, that’s interesting. The fly predators look like tiny flying ants. It’s neat to watch nature work to our advantage. I have been using an herbal fly spray for my horses for several years and I’m very happy with the results. I do worry about the effect that chemicals have on humans, horses, and basically everything in nature. The less chemicals the better for my peace of mind

@grantalexandergiliomee2777

3 ай бұрын

@@VersatileHorsemanship Presently one of the stable yards I am trapping for removes all the waste within 2-3 days. Paddocks get cleaned but not 100%. When a skip stays on site for longer than a week the flies instantly become a issue in a residential area. What I learned is to only repel flies isn't the answer. I am going to look into your method too. Mine is unusual because I attract the masses of biting flies from the whole neighbourhood and try to kill them all so that they die before biting the horses. When I get to the site I watch the tails and front legs. If I see they are settled then all is well. Did you see my video, just curious of your opinion. I average starting > +/- 100k dry dead flies per day ( 8 traps ) leaving less and less to a point where it's brag worthy. But for the occasions where sewer drains get blocked or skips get neglected and the reaction time around a week. Any method of bait trapping requires 80% or better effectiveness as the flies attracted must not have a chance to survive. The same with your method. The qty you use must be enough to immediately dent the egg hatching of many thousands of flies. As the saying goes. . .Go big or go home. I also think methods of mechanical screwfeed compost pressing and similar are also beneficial. There is a few vlog in youtube discussing that too. Can be made into bricks for fuel for example because of all the wood chips and vegetation in the collected waste. JHBZOO is trying to get permission for compacting. Great idea. Most frustrated people try more than one method at the same time. I suggest sticking to each for a good period for instance net type bait traps could catch your predators too. Then the effectiveness will be throttled by interfering. Flybraai@gmail.com for my videos and photos if you're interested.

Hey Brandi did you get any money for this, you should have it was a darn fine promo.👍🎈🎈

You said you pileup your manure, but do you haul it off the property?

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, people come and get it to use for gardens and topsoil

Do they work on horse flies? Deer flies?

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

I don't have issues with either of those types of flies so I am unsure. The customer service at Spalding Labs is pretty fantastic and they can certainly answer your questions.

How much are they?

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

Great question, I should have mentioned that! I buy what they recommend for 25 horses and it’s around $75/shipment

I tried them (Spalding) last year, but am unsure of the results. It was always lousy timing in that I'd have my shipment and wait to see them emerging, then get sidetracked until it got to where I HAD to let them out, and then it would rain buckets. Every. Time. So I was never sure how many were getting washed away/drowned before they could get established. Didn't use them this year, flies pretty bad (typical), but willing to try them again next year. And yes their customer service was excellent. It's amazing (and annoying) that a horse provides everything for a stable fly's existence. The blood meal to create eggs, the medium (manure, wet hay) for rearing the young. As Brandy explained, the predators kill the pupating maggot so it cannot mature into the next generation of biting fly. So their effectiveness on any other species of fly would depend on where that type lays its eggs and where the maggots pupate. Oh, and there's a fly that is a predator of the adult flies, but I rarely see them around here, so they probably hardly put a dent in them, but if you ever see a fly that looks like a housefly with a long dragonfly-like abdomen, it's a robber fly. They eat houseflies and stable flies. Also yellowjackets and baldface hornets eat stable flies. If you see a yellowjacket or hornet hovering by your horse's legs, it's doing them a favor and hunting. You will notice the horse is not worried to see them.

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

Good info, thanks for sharing. I would definitely give them a try again. I’ve had really great results.

No, fly predators are only effective against normal barn stable flies that frequent wet composting organic material. Horse and deer flies are sight feeding blood-sucking insects that are not affected by typical fly sprays or any other predatory insects. Their natural predators are frogs’ lizards’ and birds. There are effective sight traps that will help to reduce their local populations. A couple of interesting facts about blood-sucking flies, 1: they feed by sight, not smell 2: they prefer solid dark-colored animals 3: they typically do not travel more than 200 feet from one host to the next. Thus the 200-foot quarantine rule for any animal that tests positive for EIA. 4: It has been suggested by researchers that Zebras in Africa developed their black/white striped coat as a natural defense against sight feeding blood-sucking flies. It seems to suggest that the alternating pattern confuses the insect’s ability to find a suitable individual to feed on. So, perhaps a zebra stripped fly sheet might be useful in an area where these insects are highly concentrated.

@VersatileHorsemanship

4 жыл бұрын

So interesting. I find that flies prefer the mule over any of the horses and they really don't bother her (maybe thats why they prefer her). She is always loaded with flies.