Looking online at Zebra print fly sheets. Supposedly the pattern confuses flies. There are a few on Amazon. What brand have you tried and liked or disliked? Thanks.
I am a zebra fan. In part because of the fly concept. Also because I love dressing my almost-white horse in print sheets. I buy the “Tough1” brand online wherever they are cheapest. Generally under $50ish. They hold up well for me but my horse is not hard on his clothes. Yes he rolls, and they also help keep him slightly cleaner. 
Also they are light enough to be used in central Florida. Google brand and zebra and you will have options!
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Thank you. I will look.
More $$$, but the Bucaas zebra print looks the most “zebra” to me. It’s too dense for the hot, humid mid-Atlantic US summer days.
If you get a zebra sheet, you might try hanging it outside for a bit so the horses get used to it. Put my mare’s on and turned her out. The steady school horses in the adjacent field were apoplectic. My mare wondered what they were upset about. Eventually they came over to see the “alien”.
Research also suggests that plaids have a similar effect for the visually based flies. The zebra research was based on horse flies specifically. Not, all of the the flies that bite horses.
On my mare’s plaid Textilene sheet, she’s had horse flies land and not bite. They’re easy for me to dispatch,
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I have not tried the zebra fly sheets because it is too hot and humid for any sheets here in summer. Just came to add that I owned a black and white paint gelding for 14 years who was turned out with two solid, dark mares. The flies targeted the mares and left the gelding alone. I had no idea why until the research came out on zebra stripes.
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@aahj - that’s funny that the school horses were troubled. None of my fellow boarders ever reacted to mine.
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I have been looking at the Buccas brand on Amazon, and have been tempted. i don’t know if it would make my horse warmer than necessary. I had not considered that. Will look into the Tough1 also.
What is one horse’s boogeyman might not be another’s. At one farm I was at, one of the young Standardbreds ran into the barn wall when he was out jogging when one of the other boarders turned out their older grey horse, that looked pretty white.
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Well that’s true. I know more than one horse that is freaked out by Friesians, probably due to hair flying. And I had one mare years ago that was slightly troubled when she saw her first couple pinto/paint horses. .
I’m guessing my fellow boarders’ horses recognized my guy by scent and/or they were just not caring.
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It was strange since these were “been there done that” schoolies, apparently had never, ever seen a zebra. My mare kept looking at them “What are you fools doing?”
I’ve been afraid to try it again.
I do think the plaid Textilene sheets (Kensington) are the least hot of the the sheets and the patttern + Ecovet fly spray seems to make the horse flies forget their purpose in life.
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