Fly And Pest Control News Brought To You By Spalding Labs

The last several years, the town of Pueblo, Colorado has hosted the National Little Britches Rodeo Association Finals Rodeo. Heartwarming, wholesome, family-oriented, hard-working, and inspirational are only five of countless words to describe both the...

We really enjoy getting out on the road and meeting with customers that have been with us for a long time and those customers that are brand new too! We love talking with you and hearing your stories about the new inventive ways you’ve found to...

One secret to a fly free summer is to start Fly Predators before you have lots of flies. The optimum month to start is shown in this chart. This is when the daytime highs get into the 60 ’s and your likely chance of a hard frost is over. To get...

National Little Britches National Finals Rodeo – From July 21 st to July 26 th we’ll be at the National Little Britches Finals in Pueblo, CO. Little Britches is a youth rodeo associations for kids ages 5 – 18. The finals are the top...

With any order, if you request it, we will include a free copy of Mary Ann Kennedy's "It All Starts Here" CD. Be sure to add this, it is the first item listed on our other products page after you select your Fly Predators. This 11 song...

For most of our customers the measure of good fly control is not having to use fly spray very often or at all. The comment "I didn't spray once this summer" is high praise to us and our goal for every customer. But sometimes you have...

If you missed the chance to prevent “fly season” earlier this spring and now they’re horrible, what do you do? First don’t do what you usually do, rush out and buy a haphazard collection of “stuff” from the fly control...

Due to the Covid19 Emergency we are not attending any horse shows through November 2021. Some shows are canceled until next year and some are postponed until later in the year. We will post changes as we know them here. We really enjoy getting out...

Spalding Labs and Dr. Miller started their relationship 33 years ago when he first inquired about Fly Predators and so, as a very special bonus to Spalding Lab’s customers, a special edition of his Understanding the Ancient Secrets of the Horse’s...

If you’ve been reading the blogs this past year about the Johnsons you may have said to yourself, “Why do they do it?” In the previous year the Johnsons have had great success and it would be unfair to not recognize that first before...

Light Hands Horsemanship marks the start of the summer show season for Spalding Labs. is under way and it’s just the beginning for the 2012 summer season of events and shows for Spalding Labs Light Hands Horsemanship finished its 2012 show on Sunday,...

2012 was the 6th year for Light Hands Horsemanship (LHH) and like previous years it sold out early. The world is learning that Light Hands Horsemanship is an unequaled opportunity to learn from some of the top clinicians in the world. It spanned the globe...

We have a busy trade show and event schedule through the end of the year at Spalding Labs. From August through December we’re crossing the country from Tennessee to California and Wisconsin to Florida. We wrapped up the summer show schedule with a trip...

Talking with Sherrylynn Johnson is sometimes like talking to a computer – a really nice, very personable, friendly computer. Ask her where she and her husband, renowned calf roper Mike Johnson, are heading over the next few days, weeks or months and she...

Removes Urine and Pet Poo Odors Naturally using Microbial Action Spalding Labs introduces Bye Bye Odor™ a highly concentrated, yet safe, microbial solution especially formulated to substantially reduce or even eliminate a wide range of organic...

After working for one season as a veterinarian on Mackinac Island I realized how serious a problem flies can be. They irritate the horses enough to make them want to get away. They bite the dogs until they bleed. They were a general nuisance to the people...

We get many calls from interesting and different potential customers, but this one was a little more interesting than most. This was from a vet on an island that has no cars, only horses. Turns out it has a LOT of horses, over 600, on an island you can...

You are invited to attend “An Adventure in Lightness” This popular event celebrates it’s third year at Intrepid Farms in the beautiful Santa Ynez, Valley near the Southern California coast, just north east of Santa Barbara. Once again...

The randomly chosen winner of the contest for an all expense paid trip to the 2009 Light Hands Horseman Symposium was Jacqui Crews from Leesburg, VA. As it turns out she gentles and adopts mustangs so we feel that a very deserving (also lucky) person...

One of things that I believe is important as a good corporate citizen is to give back to the sport, the industry and the customers that support us. In our case we want to support projects that can really make a difference. Projects where our involvement...