Fly Spray For Ear Bugs, Horse Management Hack

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Milton is weird about his ears.

He used to be normal.

Then he got a tick in his ear.

It hurt.

Once it was gone, he still remembered that his ear had hurt at one point.

For yeeears, he remembered this.

No touchie! No touchie!

These days, if you are quiet and slow, you can scratch the inside of his ears, which he quite likes, right up until he remembers that he doesn’t want his ears touched.

Needless to say, if he gets tick in his ear now, there is no going near it. For the duration, we have to unbuckle the headstall of his halter instead of sliding it over his ears. There is no way to dig anything out of his ears, short of tranquilizers and a livestock press. Ask me how I know.

Sometimes, if the bug is close to the edge and I get lucky, I can slip it out. Not this time. This one was deep. It would have been a delicate maneuver with Rodney and he’s good about tweezers flying about his ears.

My brilliant barn partner tried a squirt of fly spray aimed – very quickly – at the affected area. By the next morning, the bug was gone.

Coincidence? Causation? We’ll find out next time.

Onwards!
Katherine