Fly

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With the warm summer days comes the dreaded fly season. Guard your horse against the irritating, disease-carrying pests with our tips and tricks.

If your horse lives at pasture or is turned out much of the time, a run-in shed can provide him with shelter from winter’s storms and summer’s heat and flies.

Take action to remove any remaining eggs from your horse’s haircoat to guard against bot-fly damage.

Are you and your horse plagued by barn flies? Take our quiz to test your fly IQ.

Keeping your horse fly-free is no easy task. Here we show you seven different fly-fighting solutions that’ll help your bug-prone horse survive the summer months.