How to effectively control the many mosquitoes and insects in cattle farms in summer

Summer is the period when mosquitoes and insects are rampant, and we find them very annoying. Likewise, cattle farmers must also guard against mosquito and insect bites in summer. Mosquitoes and insects biting cattle affect the cattle's mood, often causing restlessness, poor appetite, and stunted growth. More importantly, they can also transmit various diseases, threatening the health of the cattle, and in severe cases causing illness and death. Therefore, cattle farmers should pay attention to mosquito prevention measures in summer. Below, Qinnong Net brings you methods for repelling mosquitoes and insects when raising cattle in summer. Let's take a look together.

1. Install mosquito-killing lamps

Installing mosquito-killing lamps is a common method of repelling and killing mosquitoes, and its effect is also excellent. Install one or more lamps above the cattle shed to attract mosquitoes and insects. However, this method is only suitable indoors; outdoors in open areas, it will attract more mosquitoes and insects and have the opposite effect.

2. Drug spraying

When spraying drugs, dilute the agent and then spray it to kill mosquitoes, and the effect is also excellent, but it has a certain timeliness. After the drug's effective period passes, mosquitoes and insects will still bite. Moreover, when spraying, you must be very careful to prevent the agent from being sprayed onto feed troughs, forage, water troughs, or water sources, otherwise it will cause cattle poisoning.

3. Drug fumigation

Drug fumigation is the same as the mosquito coils we use at home. Choose a low-concentration drug, and when the cattle are about to enter the pen, light it to fumigate the entire cattle shed once, then let the cattle into the shed. However, although the drug used in this method is low-toxicity, it still has a certain toxicity and is not suitable for long-term use. Long-term use not only harms the health of the cattle but also increases the mosquitoes' and insects' drug resistance.

4. Sun-drying cattle manure elimination method

This method is similar to the drug fumigation method above, but the fumigation material is not a drug, but cattle manure. Collect the cattle manure and then expose it to the sun to kill viruses and sterilize it. In the evening, light the cattle manure inside the pen. After being lit, cattle manure gives off a strange odor that can fumigate to death or drive away mosquitoes and insects, achieving a mosquito-repelling effect.

5. Straw smoking method

Summer is the harvest period for many crops, so this is when there is the most straw. Likewise in the evening, before the cattle have entered the shed, light the straw. When the fire is blazing, extinguish it with water and let the smoke spread throughout the entire cattle shed. This can not only drive away mosquitoes and insects, but the ash after it burns is also a very good fertilizer and sterilization raw material. However, the disadvantage is that it can easily cause fires, so you must be careful when using it.

The above are the methods brought by Qinnong Net for repelling and killing mosquitoes when raising cattle in summer. The editor has brought you several methods for repelling mosquitoes for cattle in summer. Among them, several methods require attention, and several methods can also be combined to repel mosquitoes for better results. If you want to learn more, please stay tuned to Qinnong Net.