At home remedies right from the kitchen

[banderanch]

Wandering how many use apple cider vinegar for their horses? I have heard that it works for many things from arthritis, digestive, repel's flys, all around good stuff. If so how much do you use? Then what about Skin So Soft from Avon, used for fly repellent mixed with the vinegar? Trying use more natural stuff and save money. Any other remedies people use for horses that come right out your kitchen bring it on! LOL

 

[chicks & ducks]

I've heard a bleach/water mix of 1:10 works as a good home remedy fly spray. Haven't used it yet though so can't say how well it works.
ps. I use vinegar for everything! Cleaning, laundry. I even used vinegar/water to strip wallpaper! worked a treat!

 

[goodhors]

Would not recommend the bleach for horses, hard on their haircoat. Will sure kill the shine if used very much.

I hear a lot about the success of home remedies, but have not actually seen a big improvement myself. This includes the Avon Skin-so-soft spray, feed thru vinegar and garlic stuff.

Garlic can actually be harmful, it leaches minerals out of the horse's body, so he is mineral deficient!!

Spraying vinegar on directly, works about as well as real fly spray, you get about 15 minutes of no-fly time!

Keeping the paddock poop cleaned up, shade for the horses, seems more effective in fly protection, than the additives. However Vinegar is pretty cheap, most like the flavor in grain, cuts the sweat after a workout to rinse off, so not harmful the horse. Flavors the water if you haul horse out a lot, so he willingly drinks strange tasting water.