[align=center]PreventingFly Strike with Vanilla Extract[/align]
[align=left]I add approximately one teaspoon of vanilla flavoringextract, real or artificial, to one gallon of drinking water in aneffort to reduce fly strike and warbles by reducing the number of fliesin and about our rabbits. Seems that the vanilla odor withinthe urine andstool is repugnant to flies and tends to drivethem away.[/align]
[align=left]The measurement is not terribly critical and moreoften than not, I just eyeball the amount added to the water until itchanges color. Most people won't accept such an unspecifiedamount, so I give the "exact" measurement to make them feel at easewith it.[/align]
[align=left]Vanilla flavoring also serves to encourage buns to drinkmore water, which is a coincidental positive factor.[/align]
[align=left]I learned of this practice years ago on the old Rabbit WebMessage Board, so I would not want to take credit as the initiator ofthe practice, though I doubt one could ever find such a person,anyway. It has probably been part and parcel of good rabbithusbandry for years in the past, as it is a homeopathic remedy, afterall.[/align]
[align=left]--Buck Jones[/align]