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Herbal Insect Repellents |
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES |
Fly Repellent
1/2 teaspoon oil of myrrh
2 cups water
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/4 teaspoon of citronella oil
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Naturally Equine
Hilton Herbs
Stoney Mountain Botanicals
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Fly Repellent
2 cups apple cider vinegar
2 cups cold (prepared) tea, such as sage or chamomile tea
20 drops eucalyptus oil
20 drops citronella oil
10 drops lavender oil
10 drops tea tree oil
10 drops cedar oil
20 drops emulsifier, such as polysorbate 20
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Fly Repellent
2
cups white vinegar
1 cup Avon Skin So Soft (Bath oil)
1 cup water
1 tablespoon eucalyptus oil
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Fly Control
500m. (2 cups) light mineral oil
125ml (1/2 cup) lemon juice
10ml (2 tsp.) citronella oil
10ml eucalyptus oil
10ml lemon dish detergent
optional 125ml glycerin
Mix in a spray bottle and spray away!
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Horse Insect Repellent Mix
1
oz. Citronella Oil
2 oz. Skin-So-Soft or Coat-So-Soft
1 Cup Cider Vinegar
1 cup Water
Mix in a 20 oz. spray bottle.
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Easy Fly Spray
You can mix seven parts water with one part citronella as a fly spray.
It's not oily either. Mix it four parts water to one part citronella
during the worst of the fly season. You can take a bottle and fill it with
white vinegar and two tablespoons of dish soap. Add water if you wish to
dilute it a little. Shake and spray it on for a nice and very cheap fly
spray.
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Fly Spray Recipe 3
15 oz water
5 oz commercial fly spray ( any brand)
5 oz vinegar
2 oz vegetable oil
2 oz green Dawn dish soap
Mix and use. All natural and will not harm coat.
Fly relief
3 cups of water
¼ (one quarter) cup sugar
¼ (one quarter) cup white vinegar
Mix, punch holes in the lid, and set it where needed. It works great.
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Internal Fly Repellant - Water
For cheap fly repellent, mix about 1 1/2 cups of plain white vinegar into
about every 75 gallons of water in your horse's water tub. If you use this
it in the water about a week before flies start biting, it will have
circulated in your horse and it helps keep flies from biting.
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Internal Fly Repellant - Grain
If your horse is allergic to fly bites, try 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar
on their grain once a day. This raises the blood acid level just enough to
bother the flies, but it is completely healthy for the
horse. It takes about one week to start seeing the effects. Several old
timers have told me that they always put vinegar in their horse's drinking
water during the summer to repel flies and mosquitoes. |
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