Flies - creams and supplements

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Fed up of the horrible things already
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and it's only the start of the summer.
So I have a few questions, can anyone recomend a decent fly cream? I'm currently using summer fly cream but it's slowly staining me and all my clothes yellow.
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I want a cream I can slap on without worrying how much it costs or alternatively one that works so well you don't have to put much on. So recomendations pretty please...
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And secondly, Garlic or marmite/brewers yeast which one do you rate?

Any help much appreciated
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Not ignoring you - just don't have anything useful really. I have yet to find a fly spray that actually works - so have stopped using them. I put a fly mask on Amy when they are very bad. And have bought a rambo fly rug. However won't be putting that on this year because of the child.....
 
I use a home made recipie given to me by Jess Rules Da World, and I swear. it's fab!!

Get a huge jug of hot water, add 6 tea bags.
Leave to cool.
Add 1/4 of a bottle of cheap vinegar, a few drops of baby oil, and 10ml of citronella. Decant it into a spray bottle, and save what's left over.

You can add whatever you like really, but use strong black tea and baby oil and vinegar as the base.

Little man hates being sprayed to i put it on a sponge or cloth and wipe it on. If I forget to put this on, you can see where the flies have driven him stir crazy. It really does stink, but it works!! Or try avon's so soft stuff, I have heard that works a treat too.

You could always put it on an old roll on deoderant bottle, and roll it on!!
 
I'm really looking for a cream, the midges are so bad here they don't pay attention to much, I think they only just notice the day glo yellow cream
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I'm using barrier fly spray and have avon stuff and oils in the post, but sprays don't really last on the belly, udders and throat long enough to stop my poor mare being bitten, she has a throat that looks like a bag of marbles at the moment, and keeps bucking when I ride just because she can feel them under her.She's got a fly rug and mask on and will get a proper sweet itch rug asap, but just don't know what to do, the bugs are making her life misery. They seem to love her more than the others, my other mare is much less affected, and doesn't even have the rug on.
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It works unless they sweat heavily/it rains heavily or you bath them...our sweetitch boy wears it in combination with his sweetitch hoody and has so far been itch free this year (by this time last year he had no mane and a bleeding dock
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Thanks Druid... well I went out and bought some, a bit queasy at the £20 price tag but will put some on her tommorow and see how we go
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