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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 25074" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Flycontrol isn't a one step process. The larvacides are good, the one we use is included in the loose mineral, but you also require some method of deterring them from actaully bothering the cattle. We use walk through arches with insecticide mops so that the animal has to pass through it to get to water. That discourages the flys and the larvacide helps control the flys in the larva stage. Both of these go hand-in-hand with manure managment. Mounds of manure also need to be controlled. Rotational grazing helps to spread the manure around. Free range poultry will also help to scatter the piles and will eat the larva that aren't totally affected by the larvacide. It doesn't matter if it's free range chickens, Guineas, pea fowl our wild turkeys or quail. The pats need to be broken up and spread around. Even coons, possums, or some other type of scavanging animal can help.</p><p>But no matter what you do, you'll never be totally free of them. It's claimed that face/horn flys only travel several hundred feet, but if you have a neighbor that doesn't also have a fly control program, you can make a serious dent but you;re fighting at best a holding action.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 25074, member: 34"] Flycontrol isn't a one step process. The larvacides are good, the one we use is included in the loose mineral, but you also require some method of deterring them from actaully bothering the cattle. We use walk through arches with insecticide mops so that the animal has to pass through it to get to water. That discourages the flys and the larvacide helps control the flys in the larva stage. Both of these go hand-in-hand with manure managment. Mounds of manure also need to be controlled. Rotational grazing helps to spread the manure around. Free range poultry will also help to scatter the piles and will eat the larva that aren't totally affected by the larvacide. It doesn't matter if it's free range chickens, Guineas, pea fowl our wild turkeys or quail. The pats need to be broken up and spread around. Even coons, possums, or some other type of scavanging animal can help. But no matter what you do, you'll never be totally free of them. It's claimed that face/horn flys only travel several hundred feet, but if you have a neighbor that doesn't also have a fly control program, you can make a serious dent but you;re fighting at best a holding action. dun [/QUOTE]
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