Are you prepared for this? It's a super-duper rancher trick. Here goes:
Bacon grease.
Yup, I do imply bacon grease, put directly from the fry pan into an aluminum can after you're done making breakfast. I collect 3 or four giant soup cans' worth of bacon grease at a time, specifically during the winter season, and after that use it lavishly in the spring, summertime, and fall to keep the horses happy and devoid of flies. I keep it in the fridge or freezer in between usages.
How to Use Bacon Grease to Keep Flies Off Horses
Use it around your horse's eyes, ears, and face. Slather it down your horse's midline, top and bottom. If your horse has a scratchy tail, you might put a little bit on the tail head.
Unlike common fly sprays, which are only good for a couple of hours, bacon grease will ward off flies for up to a week. These include routine flies, giant horse flies, mosquitoes, and even "no-see-ums," those tiny bugs that you can hardly see however bite however.
My quarter horse gelding, Walker, will literally buck and run around like a mad-man if a giant horse fly lands on him. The other sensitive horse, my mustang mare Samantha, establishes welts and swellings from fly bites.
Warding off Flies from the Inside Out
Bacon grease works fantastic to keep horses zebras and donkeys the flies away from horses, especially if you do not mind smelling like a short-order cook after you're done. For horses with sensitive skin that are reactive to fly bites, I've likewise found that specific dietary supplements help ward off flies from the inside out. Two that work well are top quality mangosteen juice and apple cider vinegar.
I feed my horses an ounce of XanGo mangosteen juice daily, either in their feed or simply by spraying it in their mouths with a syringe. Prior to I discovered the mangosteen juice, I fed the horses 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar twice a day with their feed.
Gradually I have actually discovered that the best mix of home remedies to keep the flies far from my horses is to slather bacon grease on the outside and feed the XanGo mangosteen juice or apple cider vinegar internally. Together they work like a reward to keep my horses happy and reasonably without flies-- naturally!
The most natural technique of breeding horses is when the stallion runs loose with the mares nevertheless nowadays there are 3 other primary methods used:
Synthetic insemination where semen is gathered from the stallion and put into the mare synthetically
In-hand breeding, where stallion and mare are united in hand under regulated circumstances
Embryo transfer, when an embryo is drawn from one mare and implanted into another who will carry it for the complete regard to the pregnancy
Permitting a stallion to run with his mares is the most traditional technique and the horses are able to act as they would in their natural wild state. In this circumstance it is never possible to be particular which mares have actually been mated and on what dates.
In hand breeding is the most commonly used method in commercial studs. The mare and the stallion are combined and held by handlers. Mares are regularly placed in hobbles to prevent kicks and injuries to valuable stallions. This technique permits much greater management and veterinary intervention ensuring that the mare is at her peak time to develop before providing to the stallion and that due dates are understood.
It likewise minimizes the management of the mares as they can be inseminated at home or at their local veterinarians rather than having to take a trip to the stallion. This is then cooled or frozen if not used right away and can then be shipped to a mare anywhere around the world.
Embryo transfer is the most modern of the approaches and has actually been established or efficiency horses to allow competition mares to continue contending whilst still producing kids. This strategy means it is also possible for the mare to produce more than one foal a year and does not put the stress on the body that having several foals over a life time would. The embryo is taken and transferred to a recipient mare that is utilized simply to produce the foal thus allowing the donor mare to return to competitive life.