[AlpacaTalk] Re: fly predators
I'm speaking from experience from horses here (we're still in the "learning everything we can and planning stage" for alpacas stage). We don't have all smooth pasture either - we can let our horses out to another area with shrubs and all taller grasses. We never had a problem with the boots coming off - sagging a little but not off.
Thinking about the Alpacas - I saw on another website they come in miniature horse size - so maybe that's an option. Or to possibly make them tighter - duct tape? We didn't have them tight like vet wrap tight if that is your thinking - they were kinda just "there". Ours also didn't have any fly repellant on them so there wasn't any smell (that I could detect).
Ridgley
(I also liked that they came in pretty colors - glow in the dark helped to see at night)
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> How did you get them to stay on? We tried it last year but the pacas kept figuring out a way to get them off. Also, the alpaca legs are so-o-o skinny, it was hard to get them on tight enough plus they seemed to dislike the smell and/or feel of them around their legs.
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> --- On Thu, 3/12/09, rollinridge <rollinridge@
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> From: rollinridge <rollinridge@
> Subject: [AlpacaTalk] Re: fly predators
> To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
> Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 7:06 AM
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> Fly boots are like wrap around fly masks for the legs with two velco straps. Made the horses look like they were wearing knee socks. They worked GREAT!!! We picked them up at our local tack shop but you can get them online - we didn't get the expensive ones (they can cost up to $80! We spent like $20) Here's a like to some that look like them (and they're re'usable - hose them off)
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> Ridgley
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> --- In AlpacaTalk@yahoogro ups.com, "Wendy Edwards" <wendy.edwards@ ...> wrote:
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> > hi Ridgley - what are fly boots?
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> > We used DE last year but just sprinkled on the manure piles - it didn't seem to make much difference - this year i am going to feed it to the alpacas and see if that helps.
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> > i've tried fly spray, wipes and roll-on. Nothing seemed to last for long. Does anyone use the alpaca fly-masks i've seen advertised?
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> > Wendy
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> > From: rollinridge
> > To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro ups.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:17 AM
> > Subject: [AlpacaTalk] Re: fly predators
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> > Glad you brought that up :-) (one of my future questions). We tried them for the first time last year with our (2) horses and my husband and I kept asking each other all summer long whether we noticed any difference. (As we shovelled the manure). We're in NJ. We have friends in MD that say they're wonderful which is why we tried them. But I really don't think it helped. Their website says it can take a couple of years for them to really "kick in" - but I think I'll stick with my fashionable fly boots.
> > Can alpacas wear things like that?
> > Ridgley
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> > --- In AlpacaTalk@yahoogro ups.com, "Emaly Leak" <llamapyr25@ > wrote:
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> > > Spring is upon us, and I was curious to hear if anyone has used fly
> > > predators to control their fly population? If so, how did it work? When
> > > did you start & stop? I'm sure part of that is based upon geography and
> > > climate- I'm in central Indiana. Thanks, Emaly
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