"Get a pyrethrin pest strip from your farm store. Cut it into one inch squares, one each in each plastic bag."
Spent the afternoon at 6 farm stores and nobody had or could tell me about that product. Could use any help to identify this product.
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"Get a pyrethrin pest strip from your farm store. Cut it into one inch squares, one each in each plastic bag."
Spent the afternoon at 6 farm stores and nobody had or could tell me about that product. Could use any help to identify this product.
I put the hair or fur I am saving in a small paper bag.
I also put a couple of moth balls in a different paper bag.
I then put both bags into a small tupperware container.
It has worked fine for the last 3 years.
Ed
fly.tyer,
I work at a farm store, but I am not a chemist so what I am fixing to tell you may not be 100% correct but it should be close enough. Pyrethrin and permethrin are more or less the same chemical. I don't really understand it all, but I have been told they are brothers or cousins or something like that. Anyway, I know at our store we sell flea collars for dogs and cats that are made out of permethrin, cutting one of those into 1 inch long pieces should work. We also sell some fly baits for hanging up in a barn or something that could probably be cut up, but I think the flea collars would cut easier. I hope that helps. :-)
hNt
PS: We sell a small bottle of permethrin for spraying cows for flies. It has on the label the correct amount to use for spraying dogs, cats, and horses. It is a whole lot cheaper to buy the bottle, like $5 and mix it in a quart spray bottle and treat your pets. Same exact chemical and it is on the label. A little aggravating mixing, I think its like 1 oz to a gal, but it sure beats the price the vets stick you with. Has nothing to do with keeping furs and hairs, but it might save someone a few bucks, and in this day and age... :D
To go along with the title of this thread: http://www.amazon.com/Field-Fly-Tier...0109757&sr=8-2
I can't believe that I haven't bought this book yet, but spring turkey season is around the corner and I want to be able to use more of my spring bird this year.
I have a friend that uses moth balls with good success, but hate the smell of them and use a dog flea collar cut into pieces in my supplies since I read about it here. Remember that they don't last forever and should be replaced every so often. So if you use a flea collar and you haven't changed it out since you first put them in, now might be a good time to put new ones in, they are cheap compared to the cost of even a single cape.
Jason, If you have the animals there why do you have to save/keep materials from them in the house? I take the horse hair (mane or tail) as I need it. Road kill is a different story. As long as the critters are alive you've got a source. My penny's worth. Jim
Was given some horse hair not long back - for fly tying purposes I never refuse anything, but was wondering what to do with it. Thanks for the info about ribbing and nymph bodies, can now reduce the amount I was given by tying up some flies with it.
Thanks again.....
Jeanne
Horse hair...where to start?
Tail and mane - use for dry fly tails where a darker color is needed. Also works well for legs, single hairs for small flys like beetles, combine them when larger legs are needed like hoppers. I glue a few together cut them to length and overhand knot them for the bend.
Back-in-the-day braided tail hair was used for fly line or tippet (I'm not exactly sure which).
Body hair - (NOTE: English jumpers are clipped for shows so I get a ton of this every couple of months) I use it as a substitute for hares mask, or you can pick out the longer hairs for a great dubbing.
I'm sure I missed a bunch of other uses but these are the only ones I can think of now.