Gooby
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This may have already been covered and I have missed so sorry if it has but is there some sort of vaccine we can use to protect our horses against EIA?
Protecting against EIA
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Not slacking multitasking
in essence no, it is not the sort of virus easily protected against with a vaccine as it is similar to HIV. Someone said eariler that chinese researchers had been working on one but I would be unsure if it could be very effective.
Gooby
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so basically we're screwed now if is does start to spread and there ain't much we can do about it
apart from stopping infected horses entering the country
Munchkin
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Unfortunately that'd be a case of shutting the door after the horse had bolted, as it were! We are lucky that it is winter and there are less flies around than there would have been in summer. We just need to sit tight and hope this doesn't spread quickly - although I do think a ban on movement, even if only in currently affected areas, would be a good idea.
Aru
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None licensed in Europe i afraid.
To protect against EIA in a practical way and the easiest thing would be to avoid exposure to Tabanid ie horse flys and stomoxys ie Stable fly bites...
Avoid keeping horses in fields next to swampy or water-logged areas occasionally rivers....
Tabanids use these these areas as a breeding site and they rarely fly far from these sites....generally if you have been bitten by a horse fly you will know the site's on your own land as youd remember them they have a nasty bite that bloody stings
If you have no other alternative in land and are in an area of a confirmed EIA outbrek dont panic...
using a insect repellent is generally a good way to discourage the buggers...they mainly bite the abdomen legs and neck so apply there in particular
Stable flys are a little more difficult.
They breed in rotting vegetation or wet dung mixed with vegetaion...so are more likely to be around stables and dung heaps etc...
spraying an animal with a Fly REPELLENT is more effective than an insecticide as they can still bite during the time the insecticide take to kill them..
...some people advise using an residual insecticide on the walls where the flys rest...they like to sit on sunny walls in stables so that can help to.
Again though if you have these flys in your stable areas you will probley have noticed them already as they do bite and irritate horses and are quite large flys that look very like horse flys...large,dark coloured dig wings and a large head with big eyes
They generally feed on the lower legs and flanks on horses...
General fly control and insecticides sprays with a residual action can be used on both animals and animal houses as a control..
Both are DAYTIME feeders so stabling at dawn and dusk wont do that much help im afraid.
These generally are NOT ACTIVE this time of year anyway though as they overwinter as larvae and come out as adults in spring and summer but if it occured in a time that they were active then the above advise may come in handy...
Its taken from my veterinary parasitology book and lectures so should be reliable enough...
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/294099.html
to show im not talking crap about the type of flys
To protect against EIA in a practical way and the easiest thing would be to avoid exposure to Tabanid ie horse flys and stomoxys ie Stable fly bites...
Avoid keeping horses in fields next to swampy or water-logged areas occasionally rivers....
Tabanids use these these areas as a breeding site and they rarely fly far from these sites....generally if you have been bitten by a horse fly you will know the site's on your own land as youd remember them they have a nasty bite that bloody stings
If you have no other alternative in land and are in an area of a confirmed EIA outbrek dont panic...
using a insect repellent is generally a good way to discourage the buggers...they mainly bite the abdomen legs and neck so apply there in particular
Stable flys are a little more difficult.
They breed in rotting vegetation or wet dung mixed with vegetaion...so are more likely to be around stables and dung heaps etc...
spraying an animal with a Fly REPELLENT is more effective than an insecticide as they can still bite during the time the insecticide take to kill them..
...some people advise using an residual insecticide on the walls where the flys rest...they like to sit on sunny walls in stables so that can help to.
Again though if you have these flys in your stable areas you will probley have noticed them already as they do bite and irritate horses and are quite large flys that look very like horse flys...large,dark coloured dig wings and a large head with big eyes
They generally feed on the lower legs and flanks on horses...
General fly control and insecticides sprays with a residual action can be used on both animals and animal houses as a control..
Both are DAYTIME feeders so stabling at dawn and dusk wont do that much help im afraid.
These generally are NOT ACTIVE this time of year anyway though as they overwinter as larvae and come out as adults in spring and summer but if it occured in a time that they were active then the above advise may come in handy...
Its taken from my veterinary parasitology book and lectures so should be reliable enough...
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/294099.html
to show im not talking crap about the type of flys
Munchkin
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Thanks Aru, that is really useful info.
Gooby
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I have been trying to keep up to date with the news feed on here but think my brain is a bit fried from revising at the moment so nothing goes in. Thank you Aru that all went in very easily though! lol. We only have 1 massive field which is marshy and next the the river so summer will be a fun time
Hacking is also over marshy ground so I doubt you'll be able to see us in summer then as I'll have surrounded us in a mist of fly repellant!