Homemade Fly Spray Recipes

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Homemade

Fly Spray Recipes

These home made fly spray recipes are

gathered from around the web. Please research and use your own judgment

and always check with your vet when in doubt.

Special note: Whenever a fly spray recipe calls for citronella,

you should use 100 percent pure citronella oil. It is a plant based product.

You should not use citronella oil that is sold for an outdoor torch. That type

of oil is petroleum based with a citronella smell. You can buy pure citronella

oil at Cedar

Vale online. Cedar Vale also has the other essential oils listed in the fly

spray recipes below.

 

I used a variation of the

fly sprays:

6 caps full of Skin so Soft

1 cup white vinegar

just a good squirt of Ivory liquid soap

filled a 32 oz Bronco Spray bottle with water

Sprayed it on the horses legs, Flies fell DEAD !!!

Reminder - Consult your vet and use at

your own risk.

1 cup vinegar

1 cup baby oil

1/4 cup original pinesol

1 tbs dish soap

1 tbs skin so soft

1 cup water

 

Reminder - Consult your vet and use at

your own risk.

 

I used a

mixture of half Pinesol and half water.I used it all year last year and it

worked wonderful. My horses were never bothered with flies or knats and their

coats were shiney.

 

4 oz Skin So Soft

1 oz citronella oil

12 oz vinegar

12 oz water

Mix all together and it lasts as

long as any of the expensive ones do and smells a ton better! It is also

good for their coat.

 

U.S. Forest Service Bug Spray Recipe

1 cup water

 

1 cup Avon Skin So Soft Bath Oil

 

2 cups vinegar

 

1 tbs. Eucalyptus oil (found in health food stores)

 

Optional: few tablespoons of citronella oil.

 

Shake spray bottle well before spraying on horse, human or dog!

 

BEST FLY REPELLANT -

submitted by Brianne

Made by Shaklee (remember them?)- BASIC H. It works.

You can use it to spray areas where flies breed or congregate, once they have

been misted, they can't fly anymore and die. They hate it, and will not bother

or bite horses who have been sprayed with it. You can make a diluted spray with

5-7 parts water and one part basic H . You can adjust the mixture to suit your

area, but trust me, that concentration is plenty strong. You can also use to

bathe your horses, yourself and your tack too. PH is in the range of human and

horse skin, so it is great for sensitive skinned horses and people. No yucky

smell either. Try it once and you will NEVER buy another fly repellent .

You

can purchase off the Shaklee website, or from a member or distributor. The

price is great too. Buy a gallon and imagine how far it goes- makes about 7

gallons of fly spray and will cost you about 30$. Great price, great product. I

began using it at the stables where I board, and the whole stable was using it

within the month, and continues to use it even after I brought my horses

home.

Citrus Insect Repellant

Spray

2 cups light mineral oil

1/2 cup lemon juice

2 tsp. citronella oil

2 tsp. eucalyptus essential oil

2 tsp. lemon dish soap

 

Combine all ingredients in a spray bottle. Label. To use gently shake and spray

on your horse avoiding his eyes. NOTE: Do not use this spray before a

show as it attracts dust.

 

 

Quick Fly Spray

18 oz white vinegar

2 Tbsp dish washing soap.

Mix in a 20 oz spray bottle and shake gently until well blended. You may add

water to dilute. Spray liberally on your horse

Avon Skin So Soft

 

 

Mix 3 parts water to 1 part Avon's skin-so-soft in a spray bottle.

Spray liberally on your horse. This also softens his coat.

 

I have used this mix for years, and it works

great. Laurie LaSalle, Rockin' Tree Ranch

 

Fly Repellent

2 cups white vinegar

1 cup Avon Skin So Soft (Bath oil)

1 cup water

1 tablespoon eucalyptus oil

 

Fly Control

An easy do it yourself fly spray that is relatively inexpensive, and I'm

told it really works! This spray attracts dust. So don't use it before

a show.

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!

 

 

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.

 

Internal Fly

Repellant

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.

 

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. Debbi Delva

A golf course near my home passes out Bounce

fabric softener sheets to the golfers to repel insects. Next time you go riding

tie one to your Horse's headstall and stick one in your back pocket. It works

better than ANY fly spray I've ever tried. The flies won't even fly around you.

Susan Cafouras

I was given this recipe and it does work!!!!

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.

The Hise Family

 

Visit Stony Mountain Botanicals where

you will find recipes for herbal insect repellents!

 

One Ingredient Fly Spray

Pour six caps full of Skin-So-Soft in a 20

ounce spray bottle, and fill the rest with water. Shake and spray. Sien

Creytens

Fly relief

If anyone has problems with flies in the

barn, try filling a quart jar with this mixture.

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. Toni

Auen

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. -Lindsey

 

 

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