@#€¥£&x! Horsefly's

[Deepsouth]

I just came in from the field and the horsefly's are horrendous! they are so bad they are driving the bull down to ground and the cows are all bunched up. What do y'all use that actually work's?

 

[Dega Moo]

..... cows are all bunched up. What do y'all use that actually work's?

For years we use to save all our used up fly tags after cutting them off the cows ears. Next year someone holding the cows tail for the vet would take a bit of mono line and attach it to the very end of the tail. If they were quick with their knots this wouldn't hold up the main chute event at all. After a bit of practice the cows would be able to use that fly tag pretty well to swat the horseflies. Those that didn't get splattered got a small dose of the active ingredient that was left to go along with a sizable headache. We were pretty proud of how imaginatively we solved this problem and literally at no extra cross.

Over the last couple of years we realized this wasn't working as well as it did originally and after some troubling consternation and field research we discovered that the surviving horseflies were all larger (around 30%) and generally tougher than the pests were five or six years ago. We're switching now to those large blue single tags Alflex makes. With their larger surface area and much greater weight we expect very few survivors of anything beyond a glancing blow.

 

[Deepsouth]

..... cows are all bunched up. What do y'all use that actually work's?

For years we use to save all our used up fly tags after cutting them off the cows ears. Next year someone holding the cows tail for the vet would take a bit of mono line and attach it to the very end of the tail. If they were quick with their knots this wouldn't hold up the main chute event at all. After a bit of practice the cows would be able to use that fly tag pretty well to swat the horseflies. Those that didn't get splattered got a small dose of the active ingredient that was left to go along with a sizable headache. We were pretty proud of how imaginatively we solved this problem and literally at no extra cross.

Over the last couple of years we realized this wasn't working as well as it did originally and after some troubling consternation and field research we discovered that the surviving horseflies were all larger (around 30%) and generally tougher than the pests were five or six years ago. We're switching now to those large blue single tags Alflex makes. With their larger surface area and much greater weight we expect very few survivors of anything beyond a glancing blow.

I need to see pictures! :lol2:

 

[Dega Moo]

Sorry DeepSouth but we don't allow cameras on the property what with PETA, PETI and Occupy this n that whatever so can't help you with those pictures.