Champion Animal Health

02/15/2025

You can control flies by simply putting out salt for your cattle. Fly control done!

02/13/2025

“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.

There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive. The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.

If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.

Their needs come first. In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.

When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.

You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile. You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.
You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.
You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.”

-Author Unknown

02/13/2025

How are the flies on your operation? The economic loss in cattle due to transmission of these bacteria, is over $750 million in the U.S.

Less flies = less cattle stress = more profits

02/09/2025

Have you started your fly control program?

Depending on where you’re located, you might want to start!

Message us for all your fly control needs.

02/07/2025

No secrets.

Just preparation, hard work and learning from failures!

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02/06/2025

They can burn a hole in your pocket, but you wouldn't want to live any other life.

The real question is... Do you have a fly control program in place? If not, you should consider implementing a plan ASAP.

The horn fly alone can cost you up to $10.75/animal every year 🤯

Learn more about why you should control flies: https://championanimalhealth.us/pages/why-control-flies

01/31/2025

Did you know JustiFLY gets rid of all 4 flies that affect cattle, but don't impact the dung beetle?

At Champion Animal Health, we talk a lot about the importance of responsible pesticide and larvacide use to protect your cattle from fly infestations. Still, while implementing a robust fly control program is critical, you must approach pest control tactically.

Many bugs and insects that we consider harmful or just plain gross serve very beneficial purposes for cattle, not to mention humans and the environment.

While numerous bugs may positively affect your cattle population, two of the most important are the dung beetle and the earthworm. They play vital roles in destroying the environments that allow cattle flies to thrive. Let’s take a closer look:

At Champion Animal Health, we talk a lot about the importance of responsible pesticide and larvacide use to protect your cattle from fly infestations. Still, while implementing a robust fly control program is critical, you must approach pest control tactically. Many bugs and insects that we consider...

01/24/2025

What all do we offer for fly control?

We’ve got products for every operation!

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01/22/2025

Which one will you choose? 👊

01/10/2025

Good horses shouldn't have to fight flies.

JustiFLY® Equine 8-8-8™ is the simplest, most effective way to get flies under control in your operation.

Simply add to feed daily as a top dress and fly control is done. See a 90% reduction in flies.

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01/09/2025

You spend countless dollars and hours on efforts to maintain and improve the productivity of their cattle.

One of the most common and most expensive challenges you, and your animals, face are flies.

Recent data (Taylor et al, 2012) estimate economic losses to the cattle industry exceeding $4.19 billion annually. This is equal to roughly $45.00 for every beef and dairy animal in the US. 🤯

Left uncontrolled, flies can be a source of significant economic losses on even the best managed cattle operations.

It is important that fly problems are multi-species in nature. Horn flies are not the only problem or even the most significant. As part of the total estimated annual losses:
• horn flies are the cause of just under 25% of these losses
• stable flies can drive a staggering 52.3%
• house flies and face flies follow with 17.5% and 5.3% of losses respectively

Using the $45.00/head annual loss average, this means that losses by fly species will average: Horn Flies - $11.25, Stable Flies – $23.34, house flies - $7.88 and Face flies – $2.38 per head.

A sound fly control program must target all the economically important fly species. Learn more about the effects of flies on cattle here:

by Dr. Steven Blesinger Cattlemen spend countless dollars and hours on efforts to maintain and improve the productivity of their cattle. Some inputs are designed to promote performance while others are needed to reduce challenges. One of the most common and most expensive challenges producers, and t...

01/08/2025

Happy cows make you more money. Period.

Easily increase their comfort by battling flies for them. No cow work required!

Learn more: https://championanimalhealth.us/

01/07/2025

At Champion Animal Health, we know the cattle ranching business because we are ranchers too.

More than 300,000 cattle ranchers have trusted in our fly control treatment and prevention program.

Message us to learn more!

01/06/2025

Be sure to go through 2025 with the 7 best doctors 😎

01/04/2025

Start 2025 off strong with a good fly control program!

Why should you start a fly control plan early? Because the horn fly alone has an estimated annual loss of $10.75/animal 🤯

Learn more about why you should control flies: https://championanimalhealth.us/pages/why-control-flies

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!

May 2025 bring you peace, joy and prosperity!

12/27/2024

Start your new year off right... starting your fly control program strong 👊

JustiFLY is dung beetle friendly, doesn't require a withdrawal period and costs as little as 6 cents/head/day.

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12/25/2024

Merry Christmas!