Fly repellant that you add to feed?

Think Fly from brincombe equine is wonderful! Transformed a severe sweat itch pony into a fully coated, full mane and tailed driving pony in a season! Also try Killitch from carr martin and day. You rub it into mane, tail and topline with a gloved hand or cloth andit really does keep the flies away.
 
The Global Herbs one absolutely stinks. A horse in the same barn as me was on it and it made my stomach churn when they were making feeds up. How a horse would ever eat it I don't know!

Fly spray onto a sponge is an option if you don't want a feed additive.
 
jokadoka - I give them a good teaspoonful in both their morning and evening feeds. It is meant to work much better than garlic in acting as a fly repellent and they certainly both love it, my mare licks her bucket until it's spotless!
 
another one for Think fly by denis brinicombe. My mare used to come up in huge lumps from fly bites and hated being out in the summer. Last summer she was on this and i don't remember her having a bite anywhere and she lived out 24/7.
 
Marmite must be the same for horses as it is for people! I love it so when I heard of its fly repelling properties last year got some for my itchy boy. He who is usually licking his bowl when everyone else is halfway through breakfast gave up eating!!!!!!!!!
 
Have not tried Think Fly but I did try the Global Herbs one, it made my horse stink of cat wee and she still got bitten!
 
attheponies said:
jokadoka - I give them a good teaspoonful in both their morning and evening feeds. It is meant to work much better than garlic in acting as a fly repellent and they certainly both love it, my mare licks her bucket until it's spotless!
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Thanks for that, I'll be giving it a try!
 
Sorry just wanted to add my two pence about the prolonged term use of garlic that i know abou but took of a website

garlic is actually TOXIC to horses. The team of researchers at the University of Guelph discovered that at an intake of 0.25 g of freeze-dried garlic per kilogram of bodyweight (which would be equivalent to 125 g per day for a 500 kg horse) the garlic caused an array of changes in the horses blood and eventually led to a condition known as Heinz Body Anemia. While the dose rate they used was quite high, the researchers note that currently a safe dose rate for horses is unknown. I personally worked with a thoroughbred trainer just recently whose horses were going very well for a while, but then started to return strange blood results, including increased mean corpuscular volume (MCV) or enlarged red blood cells and they were fatiguing quickly. On working through his diet I found they were receiving a small amount of garlic on a daily basis. Once we removed the garlic from the diet, the blood results returned to normal after several weeks and the horses energy levels were up.
There is also a question mark hanging over whether garlic has a deleterious affect on the beneficial bacterial population in the horses hindgut.
My personal feeling is that while garlic may have anti-microbial properties, the risks associated with feeding it far outweigh the possible benefits.

if you want to read more i took it off this website http://forloveofthehorse.com/forum/index.php?topic=108.0;wap2
 
My 2 are on Fly Free, it smells foul, definitely works, but to varying degrees.

The arab x show pony has very fine hair and came from his previous home kitted out with fly mask, fly rug, fly spray the lot, and was fed garlic (have dropped this from diet). He comes up in big lumps when bitten by mossies. Last summer he was on Fly Free and was out completely naked and rarely got bitten, although when the flies were really bad we did dab a little fly repellant under his nether regions and across his face but mainly to put off the sort that gather round the eyes etc rather than the mossies.

The NF was also on Fly Free and this didn't work as well I think due to him being rather hairy, however being hairy I think meant the mossies found it more difficult to bite before he shook/flicked them off - or perhaps the FlyFree was working but took them longer to bite?

I started them on Fly Free again a week or so ago - best introduced a teeny bit to start then upping to full dose - when I noticed the NF was being bitten round his sheath and the other one had a couple of mossie lumps appear. Not seen any evidence of flies biting since.
 
quirky said:
The Global Herbs one absolutely stinks. A horse in the same barn as me was on it and it made my stomach churn when they were making feeds up. How a horse would ever eat it I don't know!

I agree it smells terrible. If anyone is thinking of trying it I would suggest you ring Global Herbs and ask for a sample to see if you can stomach the smell, quite apart from whether your horse will eat it in his food. I did this and didn't even try it on the horses because I knew that I couldn't bare having it in my feed room. Shame really because it probably would work very well, as the other things that I have used from Global Herbs have been brilliant.
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I had NAS on one of the global Herbs fly free supplements last year... He ate it for a bit and then just stopped eating his food altogether. It also didn't make much difference to his itchiness.

I,m going to try the marmite this year.

Last year the yard was using deosect, if i remember correctly you only have to put it on every few weeks. I stopped using it because I thought it was irritating him. It wasn't.
 
Ive tried garlic, Global herb and another I cant remember the name off, none of them worked, I have got a Rambo Fly Rug with repellent in it, and it works.

I might give marmite a go thu :D
 
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