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rosie
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 Posted - 10 Sep 2011 : 4:49:55 PM
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Just noticed one of our horses has got quite a lot of bot eggs on his legs and stomach.
Started picking them off but may invest in a knife?
Its soooo many years that I've ever seen bot eggs, that Chelle says its the first time shes ever seen them (she now 14!!) and my OH says hes never seen any before?
Anyone else got them on their horses this year yet?
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RUTHIE
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 Sep 2011 : 4:59:45 PM
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Had loads about 5/6 weeks ago. Picked every darn one off three horses! Fortunately, didn't get anymore  |
     
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sab2
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Posted - 10 Sep 2011 : 5:40:23 PM
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| We haven,t had any yet this year, rub a bit of baby oil on there legs and they cannot stick to hair |
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misterei
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 Sep 2011 : 7:03:31 PM
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We had some in June, and then we had some on Friday, got a knife but some were in the mane and they tend to need to hair to be removed. I hate them, they seem to come when there is a light wind in our paddocks on a warm day. With our weather that is not very often.
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Pashon2001
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Dot
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England
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Posted - 10 Sep 2011 : 7:18:51 PM
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Rosie,
do you have a new horse in your herd or near you. I ask as if you have not sen them in years it is likely they have been reintroduced to your herd /area bya horse bringing them in. Bots in this country require a horse to reproduce.
I have not seen one egg this year. My neighbours horses have not been around and mine have been wormed for the last few years to control bots. |
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Kharidian
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England
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Posted - 10 Sep 2011 : 8:26:05 PM
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Not yet! We usually get a few - not nearly as many as 20-30 years ago, luckily 
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rosie
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England
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Posted - 10 Sep 2011 : 8:27:54 PM
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Yes Dot, I have a new horse.
How do they come? |
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Ari
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Posted - 10 Sep 2011 : 10:26:04 PM
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| Not seen any this year. Occasionally get them but not many always on legs and easy to remove. |
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Foxtrot
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England
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Posted - 11 Sep 2011 : 11:14:59 AM
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| We have them down here in Somerset for the first time in about 8 years! No new horses either for 3 years. I scrap as many as I can off then worm with moxidectin in December, to kill any blighters that were eaten and missed the knife. |
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Dot
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England
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Posted - 11 Sep 2011 : 1:35:09 PM
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New horse may be a carrier, bot fly larva living in stomach lining, now seen this in some cadavers which is interesting, New Forest ponies..
Eradication may take a few years of careful picking off of eggs and worming and then will depend on neighbouring horses treatment if within flying distance of adult flys and possibility of resistance to wormer may also affect ability to eradicate.
Sorry no idea how far flying distance for adults is or wether affected by altitude or windiness like midges. |
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Pasch
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Posted - 11 Sep 2011 : 2:36:30 PM
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Have some on legs,not so many and managed to kill a couple of bot flies as they were in the process of laying eggs on my boy They are quite easy to kill as they are much slower than normal flies or horse flies. |
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pinkvboots
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Nichole Waller
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England
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Posted - 12 Sep 2011 : 12:37:26 PM
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None of mine have got them, but the other lady who shares the yard with me has them on two of her horses..!
We don't use the same fields, but they are close (in the next field). |
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