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<blockquote data-quote="Big D" data-source="post: 78589" data-attributes="member: 1214"><p>I also run a small feedlot. About ten years or so ago we too were tired of spraying and fighting flys. We consulted the local extension agent, which happen to be my cousin who lived in the house at the feedlot. He gave me the name of a former extension man who started a consulting business for feedlots. He came out and toured the whole farm and wrote down a list of things. His only recommendation was for us to clean house, (we were fighting stable flys) some times we would feed round bales and once it rained or snowed this stuff began decomposing, the perfect place for flys to lay eggs. After doing the cleaning, and from then on keeping things clean, even around the mill or bunklines where feed may have spilled, things have improved greatly. I have not sprayed for flys ever since. Usally once a summer the stable flys move in and if they do not have any breeding ground they either parish or move on. Stable flies will travel up to one mile to lay there eggs, so you need to consider your neighbors as well. </p><p>This consultant took me to the end of a bunkline where the cattle would always push a little feed out, I could not belive all of the larva in that little area.</p><p>However if your not fighting stable flies this may not help much.</p><p>good luck!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big D, post: 78589, member: 1214"] I also run a small feedlot. About ten years or so ago we too were tired of spraying and fighting flys. We consulted the local extension agent, which happen to be my cousin who lived in the house at the feedlot. He gave me the name of a former extension man who started a consulting business for feedlots. He came out and toured the whole farm and wrote down a list of things. His only recommendation was for us to clean house, (we were fighting stable flys) some times we would feed round bales and once it rained or snowed this stuff began decomposing, the perfect place for flys to lay eggs. After doing the cleaning, and from then on keeping things clean, even around the mill or bunklines where feed may have spilled, things have improved greatly. I have not sprayed for flys ever since. Usally once a summer the stable flys move in and if they do not have any breeding ground they either parish or move on. Stable flies will travel up to one mile to lay there eggs, so you need to consider your neighbors as well. This consultant took me to the end of a bunkline where the cattle would always push a little feed out, I could not belive all of the larva in that little area. However if your not fighting stable flies this may not help much. good luck!!! [/QUOTE]
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