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Title:Equine Notes Conference
Notice:Topics List=4, Horses 4Sale/Wanted=150, Equip 4Sale/Wanted=151
Moderator:MTADMS::COBURNIO
Created:Tue Feb 11 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2080
Total number of notes:22383

1908.0. "Barn Fly Mist systems" by STUDIO::BIGELOW (PAINTS; color your corral) Wed Jul 13 1994 09:42

    
    Anyone have any experience (contact name of a dealer) with those fly
    systems that mist on a timer in your barn?
    
    Are they worth it? 
    
    Michele
    
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1908.1Seems to workSTOWOA::MCKEOWNWed Jul 13 1994 09:498
    They have one at the barn that I'm in in Harvard (Thanksgiving Farm
    owned by Chandra Seley).  It seems to work really well.  I've been out
    riding getting bombarded, walk into the barn, and not a bug comes near
    us.  I notice that when the mist comes out my horse will walk away from
    the center of the stall so it doesn't come right down on top of him,
    but he doesn't really get completely frazzled by it.
    
    I'll ask for a name this weekend and post it for you if you'd like.
1908.2CSLALL::LCOBURNPlan B FarmWed Jul 13 1994 10:3510
    My friend uses one in her barn and swears by it.  It doesn't bother her
    gelding any, but her 2 yr old colt was a bit put out by the spray coming
    into his stall so she simply changed it's location and all seems well
    again.  I dont' think I'd like one in my own barn unless it were set
    where I could do my barn work without getting misted myself, though.  I
    don't seem to have any problem with bugs in my barn, though.  I dont'
    know why, but it's always stayed pretty much bug free without my having
    to do anything. Stays nice and cool, too, being shaded by large
    hemlocks seems to help keep the temp down a lot, maybe that's why the
    bugs avoid it?