When warm weather brings flies back to barns, it is the warm sunlight and scraps of food that makes them swarm and breed. Often fly tape is hung from west facing windows to catch the flies who are attracted by the light. A good solution to eliminate the nasty fly covered tape is a HorseFlyNet® set into the window creating shade and cooling the feed or tack room.

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Horses love a dark cool place to hang out in the summer so we put them into their stalls.  Then we add bedding, then we clean out bedding, then we buy more bedding.  A healthy horses can walk around the pasture and graze. Then when he can’t bare the sun and bugs mid day he  finds a shade tree.  If that is not available hanging a screen or net on the sunny side of a [...]

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Fly season is starting and ordering a HorseFlyNet® is the best way for horse owners to achieve several goals by installing them. 1. flies and other bugs in the barn 2. hot sun in the barn 3. birds in the barn Solve many problems with one solution. Create a breathable, uv protected space in run-in-sheds or horse barns with a quality long lasting net.

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  Kentucky Equine Research tells us that when horses are eating hay they produce saliva.  This causes more intake of water.  If this fluid in the gut is prior to the feeding of grain than the grain will pass through the stomach rapidly and into the gut.  Fermentation of grain in the hind gut can lead to such problems as colic.  Therefore if hay is offered several hours after grain [...]

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  Scratches, mud fever, pastern dermatitis on pink pigment What do you call it in your part of the country?  It is also called dew poisoning,  grease heel or greasy heel. But it is the same condition  which is caused by a mixture of bacteria and in some cases fungal organisms. The eastern US has had an unusually wet summer giving this disease the conditions to thrive on the [...]

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Botulism Beware   By Jess Hallas-Kilcoyne           Commonly found in soil, decaying animal carcasses, and, sometimes, decaying plant material, Clostridium botulinum is the bacterium responsible for producing the toxins that cause botulism. These powerful toxins prevent the release of neurotransmitters that [...]

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"Screens for barns," a word that most people are telling Horse Fly Net they use when doing a Google search for their stable or run-in-sheds. Why not? Screening is the same technique we use to protect our own homes from the multitude of flying insects which follow the light at night and enter our homes. But, Horse Fly Nets are more than just a barrier against the aggravation of flying insects. [...]

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  Sweet Itch photo from Lingfield Equine Vets   "Sweet itch in horses, ponies and donkeys is an allergic response to the saliva in the bite of the Culicoides midge (gnat, no-see-um, punky) and to a lesser degree the black fly(Simulium Equinum),  horn fly and stable fly which gives rise to intense itching" says Stephen Ashdown. Gnat Recently, one of our customers [...]

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Storing Manure unattended manure buildup Manure is something we horse owners all have to deal with.  Where do we put it?  Can we repurpose it?  How?  Simply dumping all the manure into a giant pile creates an ideal breeding ground for flies and other insects and can also conceal intestinal parasites.  After a rainfall, as surface water leaves the manure pile, it picks up nutrients and [...]

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    Stables and Flies written in 1917 Cover Manure Piles. " The object of this article is to call attention to two important phases of a fly prevention campaign, to wit: a campaign against fly food in other words, a campaign for clean houses and premises; and a campaign against fly breeding places-in other words, a campaign against bad stable conditions. Drs. Porter and Byrd of Florida[...]

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