What is the stall spray recipe to knock down flies that uses Dawn dish washing liquid and white vinegar? I know there’s a third ingredient. Is it water? And what are the proportions of each? My supply from last year is almost gone and I have to mix up a new batch.
Thank you! 
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I’m curious to know, too.
This is exactly what we use. The way we do it is we pour the distilled white vinegar in first into one of those sprayers that look like weed sprayers for your yard about 2-3 inches deep. Then we fill the rest of it up with water. After that squeeze in the blue Dawn dish soap until it turns a pretty sky blue color. Works great!
another question…
My farrier said he uses pine sol and cider vinegar in equal amounts with NO WATER as a fly spray ON THE HORSES. I bought the stuff but have not tried this…I just can’t seem to get with the straight pine sol idea…guess I could use it on the stall walls though…
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I just can’t seem to get with the straight pine sol idea…guess I could use it on the stall walls though…[/QUOTE]
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Just about any kind of soap will kill bugs. Dawn or shampoo or anything. So for stalls, just about anything works. To put on animals, use the mild soaps like Dawn and cheap human shampoos and not detergents as you are going to leave it on them and not rinse it off.
Before Advantix and the other spot on flea killers for dogs, we’d throw towels in the washing machine after washing dogs and see the fleas dying… from the laundry detergent. Works for flies too. And ants. I pour cheap powdered laundry detergent on ant beds and add water.
You can also mix skinsosoft (cheaper on ebay than at avon) mixed with white vinegar and water and spray horses and stalls. It won’t kill bugs but it will keep them away. I think the cheap perfume smell is the thing that bugs cannot stand.
My friend makes a homemade fly spray with cedar oil but Callie was allergic to cedar so I never got the recipe. Bugs do not like cedar. One time a BO sprinkled cedar shavings in with the pine shavings to keep flies out of stalls and Callie broke out in hives.
Also, the original formula Listerine will not only cure rain rot (and prevent it’s return on legs and face and rump and anywhere), it will keep ants off of horses’ legs and keep flies and gnats and skeeters and ticks off of horses.
Years ago the best treatment for rain rot fungus was straight Pine Sol sponged on the horse and then rinsed. I don’t know how well it would work to leave it on a horse for any length of time - seems a bit strong for that.
my SO’s dad uses the dish soap/vinegar/water solution on the horses…is that okay!?
Thank you! I thought it was Dawn but I found out that what was in last year’s bottle was Pine Sol. Pine Sol/vinegar/water in equal parts. However, I may try the Dawn recipe instead as that’s what I have on hand. Thanks for the tip! 
A few weeks back I took the advice of a poster from last year and used what was left of my last year’s (Pine Sol recipe) stall spray supply on a friend’s horse I was caring for. The owner never left fly spray before he left town, so I used the stall spray on the stall first, then figured I’d try the poster’s suggestion and used it on the horse. It worked!! I sprayed both the stall and the horse, and the flies left him alone.
Thank you, everyone! 
I do equal parts Pine Sol, AC Vinegar, and Water then add a few squirts of Dawn dish detergent at the end. Shake well each time before applying to stall OR horse! I mix up a gallon at a time, and pour into spray bottles as necessary.
This may be a dumb question - but what do you mean by “stall spray?” Do you just spray it on the stall walls, or what? If so, how often do you apply?
We use this spray on a daily basis for all of our trail horses. We’ve been using it for 10+ years at least 30 times a day in the spring, summer and fall so I’d say it works great!
Does it work in the stall or do all the flies just move from the stall wall to the horse?
I spray it on the walls and up where the walls meet the ceiling once a week to keep the flies out of the stall. It works very well and smells quite nice in the bargain. Add in a horse that has already been fly sprayed, and the whole environment is inhospitable to flies. No flies in the feeders or water buckets, and Dobbin can eat and sleep in peace.
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We use this spray on a daily basis for all of our trail horses. We’ve been using it for 10+ years at least 30 times a day in the spring, summer and fall so I’d say it works great![/QUOTE]
It can’t work that great if you have to reapply 30 times per day.
About time to dig this recipe out again for this year… courtesy bump for anyone else who thought about looking for it.
FWIW this stuff is awesome
http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=e24f9919-2161-491f-9cc1-fc482d897992
I spray a 3 foot or so patch in each horse’s stall once or twice a week, whenever there are more than a few flies in the stall. Flies land, spaz and DIE
How’s it work for biters and bombers?
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FWIW this stuff is awesome
http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=e24f9919-2161-491f-9cc1-fc482d897992
I spray a 3 foot or so patch in each horse’s stall once or twice a week, whenever there are more than a few flies in the stall. Flies land, spaz and DIE[/QUOTE]
The active ingredient is Imidacloprid:
Use of Common Pesticide, Imidacloprid, Linked to Bee Colony Collapse
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