Removing Bot Eggs

Now that I’m back from the barn, let me tell you some ways to remove bot eggs from your horse. You can use a bot knife or even a bot block. With the bot knife you can remove the eggs easily with a simple scrapping motion. The knife is designed to be safe but is serrated and not sharp. It catches the eggs into small nooks and crannies along the knife’s edge. Make sure you do this “scrapping” in an area where the horse does not eat. You don’t want to go to all this trouble just to have the horse ingest the bot eggs anyway!

The bot block is another way to remove the eggs. A bot block is a porous, rough stone. The block is to be used to rub the eggs off the horse’s hair. Sometimes it fills up with dirt and hair. When this happens it allows the edges to become round. It’s not so effective when that happens. You have to “sharpen” the block when this occurs. But that can be a pretty easy fix I’ll tell you about later.

The horses are waiting on their snack so it’s back to the barn for me.

Skimbleshanks