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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: fly predators and QUESTION for all

Don't you just love those neighbors? I swear, they must PLANT those burr
bushes right next to our pastures. LOL My horses always used to stick their
heads over and get them all in their forelocks and manes until I put up the
top hotwire, that was the best thing I ever did.

I wait until the Avon Skin So Soft is on sale or get it at the swapmeet,
then I buy up a bunch and add it to my horses' flyspray too. You just put some
lightly on your hands and rub it in and on the alpacas' ears and around their
eyes. I think it is much less irritating than flyspray for their eye areas,
but I never put it closer than an inch to their eye just in case. I've
never had an animal have a problem with it. It works great on biting knats and
no-see-ums, too.

One of my horse friends told me to rub a dryer static sheet in the alpaca's
fleece or on the horses before a trail ride and it worked on the trail ride,
but I haven't tried it on the alpacas yet. Its easier to spray them.

QUESTION: What type of flyspray do you guys all use in your automatic
flyspray systems? Does it get on their hay?

SUSAN OLSON
Alpaca Loco
Riverside, CA


In a message dated 3/12/2009 9:10:32 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
wendy.edwards@shaw.ca writes:

hi Susan - my alpaca boys get burrs in their topknots from my neighbor's
plants - no matter how many i pull out, they find one to stick their head in.
but they don't walk in them so i never see them on their legs.
I love the smell of skin so soft - and i've heard before that it is good for
keeping mosquitos off people, i just wondered about the ears being more
sensitive. I 'll try it on the alpacas - they don't like anything put on their
faces but i can't stand to see the flies on them.

it gets hot here in the valley but the alpacas have lots of shade and wading
pools - i also hose them off twice a day when it's really hot

they're going to smell very nice this summer - the avon lady will love me
thanks
Wendy
DreamWeaver Alpacas
BC

----- Original Message -----
From: _LunarStruck@LunarSt_ (mailto:LunarStruck@aol.com)
To: _AlpacaTalk@yahoogroAlpacaT_ (mailto:AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com)
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: fly predators

Wendy - don't your alpacas get burrs? We take all the fiber off, even
topknots on some of them. I spent a fun-filled morning removing all the
neighbor's lovely burr plants from the outside of the pasture AGAIN. It gets
a lot
hotter here than where you are, so I like to remove all the fleece. LOL

SUSAN OLSON
Alpaca Loco
Riverside, CA

In a message dated 3/12/2009 7:45:27 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
_wendy.edwards@wendy.e_ (mailto:wendy.edwards@shaw.ca) writes:

i looked at the website and i don't know if that would work for my alpacas,
i don't have nice smooth pasture and they are out in the brush all spring,
summer and fall - the boots might get caught up on something - i'm planning
on
leaving their fibre on from the knees down to give them some protection.

Wendy
DreamWeaver Alpacas
BC
www.dreamweaveralpawww.dr
----- Original Message -----
From: rollinridge
To: _AlpacaTalk@To: _AlpacaTalk@<WBR>yahoogro_AlpacaTalk@yahoogroAlpacaT_
(mailto:AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com) )
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:06 AM
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] Re: fly predators

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

--- In _AlpacaTalk@--- In _AlpacaTalk@<WBR>y_AlpacaTalk@yahoogroAlpacaT_
(mailto:AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com) ) ,
"Wendy Edwards" <wendy.edwards@wen> wrote:
>
> hi Ridgley - what are fly boots?
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Wendy
> DreamWeaver Alpacas
> BC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: rollinridge
> To: _AlpacaTalk@ To: _AlpacaTalk@<WBR_AlpacaTalk@yahoogroAlpacaT_
(mailto:AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com) )
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:17 AM
> Subject: [AlpacaTalk] Re: fly predators
>
>
> 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
>
> --- In _AlpacaTalk@ --- InoAlpacaT_ (mailto:_AlpacaTalk@yahoogroAlpacaT_
(mailto:AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com) ) ,
"Emaly Leak" <llamapyr25@> wrote:
> >
> > 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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