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Thank you, April, for reminding us of the good
stuff we get off ridecamp.
New inquiry; the bot flies are back!!! So, how do ya'll deal
with 'em? I scratched a bunch off my horses' legs with my fingernails
(gosh, they are so gross, my fingernails) but he also had them in his
mane, yuuuch!! I did not want to pull it all out, but they are
extremely sticky, and when I tried to pick them out, his hair came out
too. I always use ivermectrin in the fall, after the first frost, to get
rid of the bot infestation, but can't stand the little yellow eggs all over his
legs and mane, so I try to get rid of them. My farrier said the yellow
things are the egg shells; the larvae has already hatched and been injested by
the horse, so picking or scraping them off is just cosmetic. I have
shaved, used a bot remover cinder block, and my fingers; how about the
rest of you? Renie
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