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Preparing for Fly Season

Joined Jul 2009
345 Posts | 0+
Kimbolton, Oh
Well guys its coming that time of year again our friends the fly is about to make an appearance.

Arsenal includes wicks, fogger and collection bottles. My question is has anyone used Altosid in their arsenal. Been reading up on it and have talked to some cattle ranches that use it.


Just wondering if any of you guys have used it. How did you mix it and what was your dosage that you mixed it.


Thanks,


Jeff & Tina Enochs

Hunters Dream Whitetails.

740-630-1996.
 
I never used it. I hope someone can give some insight on it. I am always looking for other ways to relieve the fly population, I use about 10 fly trap jars every summer, they work great for me and get get rid of THOUSANDS of flies for me.
 
Go to webstaurant.com and you can order bulk garlic powder very reasonable. It comes in 25 pound bags and I split that between 3 tons of feed. The deer will kinda cut back for a couple days just because its something new. After that, the flies will almost completely leave them alone, some will still land on em but the biting pretty much completely stops on my farm. The deer go from running circles around the pen trying to escape to laying completely calm all day long. You can also dust the areas they like to lay during the day and it will help repel. I do know it WONT stop the midges from biting though. I still lost a bunch a few years back mixing garlic heavy. I know Bell mentioned he was mixing his at 10 lbs per ton. It will make the deer steaks taste better too! :blink: 
 
We top dress garlic very heavy and we have little fly issues on the farm, some deer don't have more then 1-3 on them but like I said, we use it very heavy.
 
I sell an item in the classified called the Vetgun, we used it on the farm this past weekend and all went very good. We cannot get close enough for the stockers and breeder bucks but so far so good on the does. Call me to discuss and purchase