Re: flies & living quarters

["Robyn Levash" <questarabians@inreach.com>]

Hi Kim,
Actually this horse has been in pasture the past two years even when I
leased him out. Didn't seem to be much of a difference on the amount of
flies due to living in a pasture,as to compared to when he lived in a box
stall. Like I said before, he was literally a "fly magnet", and the  the
flies were downright horrendous on this particular horse (they would attack
him as if he were were dead or something). Thanks for the thought though.
Robyn
----- Original Message -----
From: KIMBERLY PRICE <kmprice51@hotmail.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 10:10 AM
Subject: RC: flies & living quarters


> Robyn wrote:
> "He lived in a box stall for most of his years. He now lives in
> pasture. "
>
> ******
> I made an observation that the horses in stalls and even fed in their turn
> out sheds had more problems with flies, especially on their belly.  The
> horses are stationary over poop & pee (after all, you can't have the stall
> completely cleaned as soon as the horse poops) and the flies would gather
on
> their bellies especially.
>
> Mystery has always been in pasture so we never had this problem, never
knew
> it existed until I observed people putting on ointments etc on the horses
> bellies because of the fly bites.
>
> So, just a different possible cause & effect to think about....
>
> Kimberly (&Mystery the Morab..."I hate those big black & yellow ones!")
>
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