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I have no cattle, don't live on a farm, don't even struggle with flies but I still watched your whole video and feel the need for fly paper in my life.

I moved onto a farm in the 1980s with flies: it was miserable; just miserable. In our 2nd or 3rd year, mom started keeping chickens free range in the yard; after a few months, we noticed almost no flies at all anymore; turns out the chickens were eating the fly larvae and breaking the fly cycle

From a veterinarian's perspective, you are doing an absolutely wonderful job! A lot of small farmers neglect the importance of looking after your cattle's health, and it speaks volumes of your efforts that you are willing to forfeit chemical treatments for the sake of your produce's quality and safety, keep up the good work!

that was a yellow jacket not a honey bee :)

I am in Australia and I can tell you, the more a fly suffers the better.

A tip for your bait traps: Use vinegar, not soda. Flies are more attracted to smells more indicative of decay than they are smells indicative of sweets. That's why all the traps you said smelled bad smelled the way that they did. Also, Mythbusters tested it, and found that the old adage of "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" is not just false, but completely backwards.

>You died >Gets reincarnated as a fly >Spawned in this man's farm

Just saw this. My aunt has a cattle farm of about 1800 acres in southern Oklahoma. She uses these but almost industrial level. Has large canvas sheets covers them in rosin and nails the sheets to a plywood base. Once it’s full she takes the sheet off and puts it in her garage where she uses her old chicken heat lamps and scraps it off. New rosin is applied. Cycle over and over.

The sudden drop in flies is related to the lifespan/lifecycle. Black flies live 15 days or so. So if you've been catching flies for 2 weeks, it probably reduced the number of eggs being laid since you were catching the adults. That sudden drop in flies might have actually been that current generation of flies dying of old age, and too few larvae to replenish the population.

I used to work in a fly lab, and we would set up traps with apple cider vinegar (flies are extremely attracted to fermenting drinks/foods) and a couple drops of dawn dish soap. The soap acts to break the surface tension so the flies immediately drown. I do this every time I get a fruit fly outbreak and it resolves within a couple days. Hope this works out for you!

It’s interesting to learn what some farmers are doing to combat flies, without resorting to “fly powder” or other chemicals. I am surprised just how effective the fly paper was for you. Thanks for sharing!

Man who pursues naturalism and healthy life building a farm. Real heroes in this world.

Humanitarian. Most farmers (particularly w/large #'s of animals) just never give flies a thought & think "oh well, that's just part of raising cows." Kudos to you...though your cows can't talk, I'm sure they are a lot happier 😊.

It makes sense that it took you 1-2 weeks to get rid of most of the flies. I imagine it was the time for all the larvae to mature and cycle through, while consistent enough to not give them enough time to reproduce.

I love the way you film the fact that you keep everything going. Everything is moving along and we are seeing the entire farm and your work and it is very relaxing and informative. Thank you

the dude has really studied the art of sustainable farming my salutes and admiration to you. we need more like you in the world

I would totally expect exactly what you saw with the sudden decrease. You started killing flies before they were laying eggs. That interrupted the whole cycle, but with the acceleration of killing flies AND not having more eggs to replenish them. At first you won't notice it, because the existing eggs were still hatching when you started.

Damn. My Grandpa's farm had about 200 cows and 70 horses. You can just imagine the amount of flies. I once used the roll when cows were returning from grazing back into the shed and in only about 20 minutes the fly paper was completely and utterly full, not a single spot left untouched. At that point I realized it's impossible but you went ahead and fought it and won! Amazing job.

great video, nice that he took the time to explain the different things he was trying. Plus the rotation, not just the cattle but the chickens .

Amazing results. thanks for the tip!

Breaking the fly cycle is the key. Once the adults are gone, be on the look out for another outbreak in about 8-10 days. Every cycle should get less and less. Also rainy weather makes flys worse. They are more likely to gather in one place where food is available when it rains. Chickens need to be moved directly behind the cattle to help. Flys lay eggs in the fresh cow pies. What you want is the chickens to pick those pies at the first signs of larva.

I knew a guy about 15-20 years ago that was dealing with so many mosquitoes on his property, that he wrapped his entire golf cart almost completely and fly paper or something of the sort that was really sticky, and he drove around the field outside of his house for like 3 hours. There wasn't a spot of that tape that wasn't covered in mosquitoes. He did this about every night for a week. I swear that mosquito population dipped down to about a quarter of what it was

You are Doing A Great Job ! Realy Good To See . Thankyou ! I have Lernt Lots . Kind Regards

It’s so wonderful you care about your livestock so much.

I'm not a farming enthusiast or anything, just here to see flies die en masse. But man you're a delight. The world needs a lot more good dudes with wholesome dreams like this.

When you were talking about not wanting to catch honey bees, the insect you showed on that gold stick sticky trap was a yellow jacket wasp, not a honey bee. Honey bees are usually only attracted to high levels of sugar, they'll even ignore most soft drinks. Hopefully your honey bees will remain safe!

Awesome❣️Very helpful. Thank you💯🇨🇦🇨🇿

Thanks for this. A good friend has a herd and they're covered but his view ( fifth generation rancher) nothing you can do about it. Great to see you can help .

@GoldShawFarm Morgan, came across this video because I'm really into regenerative eco-agriculture, and I'm really surprised you missed the single most effective and beneficial fly suppression method: dung beetles. (Besides lacking the benefits of the method I have in mind, all the traps you used produce plastic waste.) You need to have dug beetles on your land at high enough a density where any droppings landing anywhere get broken up and buried immediately. Dung beetles immediately swarm onto fresh dung and break up the dung into 3/4" balls, and bury them about a foot under ground, right in the root zone of the plants, and lay their eggs in them. This pervasive dung burial fertilizes your land far better than isolated cow pies burning the grass where they land with excessive nitrogen. Their larvae then eat the dung. Their burrows also perforate your land with 1' deep 3/4" burrow holes so that when it rains, the water soaks right in. By breaking up and burying the dung, they remove the habitat in which flies lay their eggs. They also naturally interrupt parasite transmission, since parasite eggs that come out in dung need to remain on the surface to contaminate new grass growth so that other cows will ingest them. By immediately burying the dung balls out of reach of new grass growth and having their larvae eat from them, dung beetles break the chain of transmission of parasites which propagate through shedding eggs in the dung of the cows. Dung beetles are naturally symbiotic with large ungulates. When ranchers brought cows over from the old world, they neglected to bring dung beetles with them. That is the root of so much of the problems ranchers face with parasites and with flies. If you are going to raise cattle regeneratively, you should not neglect the employment of dung beetles. They are part of nature's way of managing ungulates. Sadly, it doesn't appear that the regenerative animal husbandry community knows about this. It would be great if you could test this out, and help get the word out. Managing flies should not involve a constant stream of plastic waste from fly paper and stinky traps in plastic jars and bags. Fly control by dung beetles destroys the problem at the level of egg laying habitat. The way you're holding back the flies involves a constant running expense of fly paper and traps, and the constant production of trash, while the flies are still breeding and laying eggs in the cow dung. That's just not the best way to do it. No amount of trapping will get rid of breeding pairs of flies that lay hundreds of eggs in the cow dung heaps on the ground, but if your land has the proper saturation level of dung beetles, the flies never even get a chance to lay eggs on the dung because it all gets broken up and buried too quickly for them to even lay eggs. You're trying to stop the problem after the eggs have been lain and hatched into larvae, which have then pupated and matured into flies. That is a never ending battle. Dung beetles stop the problem before the flies can even lay eggs in the dung. You won't need to trap flies at such a high rate because they won't even be there; entire generations of fly eggs will not have been lain in dung, hatch into maggots, pupate, and emerge as flies. Do a video search for Doug Pow, the Australian rancher who uses dung beetles on his land, and you'll see how it worked for him.

At a guess, the sudden drop-off after a couple weeks is because you're catching the adult flies on the paper meaning that fewer were hatching during the next generation. Hopefully the fly paper will keep you at a manageable equilibrium.

I have been raging a war inside and outside our home I came across the video and is very informative. I really thank you. Our kids drink this yalult and honestly the best solution. They left some out and two flies were in it and it hadn’t been a full day.

Unlike a lot of professors on here you are doing a great job, you don't know everything and don't profess to, you read and experiment, then do what works best, over time this is what works, good job.

I admit I don't know you, but as a great grandma, I just want to say how proud I am of you for not only living your dream, but spending the time and money to make it an awesome success. I am now a subscriber and will lending what support I can. God bless you and all your endeavors.

Considering all the obstacles you will have to overcome as a farmer I will say this. You are probably the most positive guy I have ever seen. Much respect from Denmark 🇩🇰

Great Idea.. your Cows look Happy😄

Great video. I must admit that as much as i enjoyed the review, i also enjoyed watching all the little extra things uve done to make your animals happy and healthy. Some grear ideas there ❤

My uncle used fermented shrimp paste and fishsauce as bait for the bucket fly traps, and they were sooooo effective.

The fact that you captured my attention the entire video on catching flies speaks volumes to the fact that you were made for making videos! So cool to see you acting on your dreams!

This is good data for all the farmers of the world, and anyone working with animals.

Excellent way of multi faceted farming ! Congrats !

I bet there was such a sudden drop because all the flies finally hatched. As soon as you started trapping them egg production mostly stopped, but it took a couple of weeks for all the existing eggs to hatch. Development from eggs to adults takes about 3 weeks.

If anyone is wondering, the "Bee" shown at 14:05 is Vespula alascensis and was for a long time considered to be "Vespula vulgaris", the European/Asian variant of the "Common wasp" but were described taxonomically different due to molecular and morphological studies. They are locally known as a "Yellow Jacket" to the U.S. and true to their name (except for some anomalous colonies) they generally nest below or at ground level. While they are not directly beneficial they do assist in decomposition.

Greetings from Spain. The best bate I found for bucket traps is the left over liquid after distilling alcohol, especially wine. think it's called the backset or back wash. it attracts fly really good.

Thank you very much for the help!

It's going to take about 3 years before your soil biome to get established. You need to get more chickens because they need to access the whole paddock the cows were in 3 to 4 days prior. Rem to train them to get on the piles is to put their grain on them. See if you can get some older hens from someone if excess eggs is an issue. Also contact your local food bank/pantry to see if they would like a source of eggs if you will be going with young hens. And stay on the traps! To quote my favorite natural path, "if you show up at my office with a broken bone I'm sending you to emergency to deal with the acute issue, then you can come back and we will work on supportive issues." Until your biome and chickens get to equilibrium, dealing with the acute fly overpopulation is the way to go. Edit for clarity: going heavy on chickens is not the answer per day, but to have enough to cover the same size paddock as the cows. The predatory insects, the soil ecosystem takes time to establish. Overpopulation of flies is part of the process of attracting the predatory species later this year and more so next. The flies are a pioneer species in the permaculture sense. With some traps, you can feed the flies back to the birds. Something will always go overboard, be it flies, buttercup, or mud, when cleaning up a mess. Just as cleaning out a closet makes a bigger mess before it gets better, returning semi-sterile/sterile land back into a functional ecosystem gets messy as things swing back and forth as balance is re-established.

Oh my god - I never understood the sheer amount of effort & ingenuity necessary to farm without chemicals. I'm genuinely shocked. I see now why grass fed/organic food is expensive, but even then, I know they still use chemicals. What this guy is doing is so impressive to me & I love this farm so much. Going to share this video with my mom and my friends! Thanks!

I was impressed by your video. You are a great farmer, your animals are very lucky to have you.

Honestly incredible that your cattle respect that SINGLE wire boundary setup.

I love how conscious you are about every decision. Not just for you or your cows, but the environment as a whole!

Hi! Fly paper works great and can be less expensive than other traps, but when it did the work, you've to touch it to remove and replace, and, unless I missed anything in the vid, fly paper and its glue can pollute and must be disposed as waste. With yeast and baking soda, Fly Buster bait ingredients shown at 9:01, you can do by yourself effective bucket traps, bait and dead flies can also be thrown as fertilizer. If you use another smaller bucket with holes in the bottom, placed into the other one, you can throw away bug and reuse the bait...

Love Your Cows! Great Content! Thanks!

We use fly bags for the barn. They work wonders too! Might be more convenient than the trash cans. But I’m so excited to see you making progress. I know how helpless those tiny buggers can make you feel as you watch your animals suffer from them.

i love how he brought up how the cylinder traps harm honeybees and showed footage of a hornet

This guy loves his cattle and is a good provider for them!

One thing you will want to be careful about with glue traps is the flies will attract insectivorous birds like wrens. If this happens you can protect the birds by getting a large flight cage with small bars, like they have for finches and canaries, that can fit over the bucket. The flies can get in but the birds are kept out - and safe.

One more inspiration: Birds also destroy EXTREMELY high amounts of flies. I don’t know if you have swallows where you live - but they are EXPERT insect hunters. Swallows require unique places to be able to nest. Maybe you can read up on it and provide for a lot of such nesting opportunities.

i am in awe of your efforts,i think i will take some of your advice and use it with my horse to minimize his flysuffering. love from norway

You are so articulate, my dude. I enjoyed watching your videos even though i don't live the farm life.

you should put up some bat boxes to have some extra helpers!! They each eat around 1000 bugs a day so they should help keep the fly population down

safe to say that you trained your cows perfectly. smart animals, they just needed to get over their fear of you. Seeing them stand in line watiting for a paddock change is so satisfying. keep up the great work Morgan.

That's what I was looking for. Great video, great farm 👍

What an excellent farm dad, thk you!

Please look into attracting dung beetles to your pastures! They're actually amazing insects. They do loads of amazing things for farmers like decreasing fly populations :D, improving pasture fertility, and aerating soil. I think they would fit quite perfectly in your vision of your farm's ecosystem.

I live in lancaster county, pa. Amish county. In our area the amish farmers often have purple Martin colonies and blue bird houses on the tops of the fence posts for fly management on the farms. I checked, I believe both bird species live in your area. I hope that idea gives you so creative ideas. In our area by the river, we have bat boxes for bug management like mosquitos. Best wishes

Amazing info packed video that wasn’t boring…

Loved your video. Your ideas are brilliant!.

I'm watching you from morocco, here we do stuff differently, kinda primitively honestly, but I have been learning a lot from your videos and your experiments to invert the situation on my family's farm in the countryside, and things are going great 😃

Hey I’m a pest management professional, I would recommend a fly bait called Agita, it’s specially manufactured for poultry and cattle farms. It contains pheromones to attract flies, gives great results and is safe to use around animals. Doesn’t harm other insects

I see this video as often as it pops up on my feed, third time so far, I love it.

Such beautiful creatures!! ❤

About 20 years ago I sat in on a talk by a cattle producer in Central Texas. He carried 300 cow/calf pairs so he has a lot more animals to observe. One of his observations was that some of his cows had fewer flies than the others and so did their calves. He had an ongoing culling program, but after making this observation, he added a protocol for culling those with flies. He took it a step farther and found the bulls he was using on a neighboring farm and found the bull with the fewest flies. After a few generations of that, he now has a herd of animals that do not get flies. He culls for 1) unassisted live birth, 2) health (natural protection from worms so no medicines are needed), 3) ability to put on weight, 4) symmetrical appearance, and 5) no flies. Basically he has his own genome of cattle.

Props to you and all farmers!! You guys feed us all and work so hard !! Congrats on winning the war against the flies!!

Thanks for this video. We’re having a terrible time with flies at a small farm we just bought 5 months ago. I’ve tried fly tape and the fly traps. The fly traps work pretty good but I’m going to now order some of that fly paper you showed. Thanks again.

Really enjoyed your video. I've never lived on a farm but found this very interesting and informative. If I'm bothered by flies this summer you can bet I'm going to use the flypaper on a bucket trick.

If you get more chickens the excess eggs can be donated to food banks (tax write off) & scrambled up for your dogs as a treat. I like how you tested & experimented to find a solution for your problem. Keep up the good work.

As someone who works in a warehouse and there's always that ONE fly that won't stop pissing me off, this is cathartic to say the least.~

Congratulations on solving your fly problem. I’m taking notes for next summer

Definitly a great content video. Thanks.

I bought three fly bags and I noticed that while they caught flys, the female flies dropped their eggs when they died or while stuck in the water. THEN those larvae hatched and grew into large flies making the bag look like it was working great, but it was the hatching eggs that caused the excess flies.

Not honey bees, those looked like yellow jackets. Also, you probably saw a several week cycle of new flies being born every day and you kept the pressure up long enough to see the last of the heavy fly -> egg -> maggot -> new fly cycle. Just a guess! Congrats on winning the war.

this was really cute. I thoroughly enjoyed this very much

You’ve got some great looking Highlands!!

im currently living in a tiny cabin on my bosses 160acre cattle farm. flies have been the biggest hurdle for me to get used to as far as farm life goes. i just ordered 10 rolls of fly paper and will be setting garbage can traps all over the place. this video just earned a new subscribe from me, you are doing gods work!

Although I do not have a farm, I was curious about the fly trapping. This was just as entertaining as informative. I give it a 5 out of 5 dead flies...☺️

3:38 love your transitions !! Well thought out ;)

There is a reason you have almost a million subscribers, you are good. Cudos to you.

as a big meat eater i would like to thank you for the effort you and all farmer go to, to produce quality food, its so important and you dont get enough praise for all your hard work. thank you most sincerely!

That's not a honey bee bro. That's a wasp. :) That said, this was a fantastic video. I grew up on a farm in southern Ontario but we didn't have this problem, despite the hot climate. When I got to Ireland a while back, I was living in the countryside and found it was just miserable even going for walks on the country roads because the fly problem was so severe. I realized it was because of the incredible density of livestock, but now, thanks to you, I also know it's because they weren't rotating their herds almost at all, and clearly not taking any preventive measures either.

Well done 👍 thank you for sharing

youre a good man, appreciate your ethics. hope you get more views

I love how the fly paper has pictures of flies on it already - like decoys to lure in others. Who knew?😅

Interesting. We ran 2,000 - 3-000 head. I don't recall ever having a fly issue. Generally, we didn't manage our feed as tightly as you do, unless we were putting them in a paddock of lucerne. So our cattle spread out a lot further. My grandfather taught us that dung beetles & birds are the key to insect control. The beetles are great for breaking up cow pads. We have bird shelters & bird baths(for drinks) all over. Figure out what native species live in your area that like flies & encourage them But be careful, ensure the insect-eating birds you attract don't eat your bees.If you aren't already doing it, you also want to encourage bees. they are great for crop yields.

Fantastic channel, keep up the great content :)

14:11 that’s not a honey bee, that’s a wasp… I don’t mind catching a few of them too - I agree though, didn’t look like a very effective trap - love the ideas you shared here - great video!

I had a similar problem when taking customers on hikes, we got swarmed with flys when the women wear perfumed. I found a plant called Bog Myrtle that smells a little like a cross between eucalyptus and tea tree, I just grab some leave and rub them between my hands then over my head and arms. Seems to work well, keeps the mosquitoes and midges away too.

Great video sir! You are very knowledgeable, professional, entertaining, and I just plain like you. 😊Thank you for making that video. Learned a lot. Keep up the great work!

Thank you,, good effort 👌

Great job! Good looking out for your animals❤

This was a random video presented to me but really impressed with your video editing and creativity. You’re very entertaining and thanks for looking out for the cows - I’m know they appreciate it too!