Flies???

[gamekeeperswife]

Has anyone come up with a good way of keeping the flies off a fresh carcass when out stalking?
The flies were insane today on a munty we got this morning, probably because it was already too hot for it at 5am.
I wondered if an onion sack net type bag would work

 

[HonestJohn]

Roe fly net - reading commercially available; or leave gralloched beast facing down with cavity opening towards ground so nothing can get ‘in’, won’t help fly strike on entry/exit wound however. Or being with you in roe sack

 

[VSS]

I have used an old cotton bed sheet to wrap a carcass in to keep flies off until I could deal with it.

 

[Swedish]

Really big pet spider?

 

[Drum123]

Really big pet spider?

I found spiders a tad delicate to carry in my pocket. I carry two toads for the same result.

 

[countrryboy]

In the old days u just used a muslin??sp sheet. Be the cheapest way.

A mate used to hang and butcher deer off his kiddies garden swing, and he lived in the middle of town.
In cooler spring/autumn days would hang there just with the sheet over them

 

[HonestJohn]

I have used an old cotton bed sheet to wrap a carcass in to keep flies off until I could deal with it.

Bet it looks awesome on the washing line

 

[Loki]

Hi

May I suggest nylon scaffold debris netting.
Roll around the carcass and tuck in edge/ends...........or machine sew as tubes for the carcass size then just tie off each end.
Easy to wash/sterilise too.
Maybe ask a local Scaffold Company for a few yards/metres off a new roll for remuneration...........

L

 

[Sol]

We use automotive polishing cloth by all intended means Its muslin cloth Its tubed and 100% cotton, and probably able too be bought wherever you live at your local automotive store, looks like what Loki posted above but cotton.

 

[gamekeeperswife]

Hi

May I suggest nylon scaffold debris netting.
Roll around the carcass and tuck in edge/ends...........or machine sew as tubes for the carcass size then just tie off each end.
Easy to wash/sterilise too.
Maybe ask a local Scaffold Company for a few yards/metres off a new roll for remuneration...........

L
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I need some of this around my partridge pens to keep the wind off so thank you now i know what to ask for

 

[Loki]

Hi GameskeeprsWife

If my suggestion is helpful thats great!

Further, I have used the yellow 25mm? diameter plastic gas pipe (other options will be available), hooped and a joiner, either end of the netting tubes, to keep the netting off carcasses when hung outdoors, thereby ensuring some airflow..............

L

 

[Rhodesianjess]

How big is your estate that you work on? Most estate chillers and larders are within 10 minutes travel across the estate. Might have to flop them and drop off straight away.
Scotland bit different but you're in Suffolk?

 

[Chris Richardson]

Large muslin bag

 

[kenbro]

Bet it looks awesome on the washing line

Why would it need to go on the washing line?
Kb.

 

[HonestJohn]

Why would it need to go on the washing line?
Kb.

I’d imagine one would want to clean it, and doubt the Mrs would allow it in the dryer. If there is a Mrs.
Blood stains wash away, to a degree..

 

[beebuzz]

Mjoelner Flynet Bag Roedeer

 

[Cyres]

Net curtain. Cheap. Washable readily available. I have a kids bed net canopy which I discovered in IKEA decades ago. Its huge and would easily envelope even a big red.
D

 

[NorHunt]

...'everybody' in Norway uses flynet bags.
You get them in all the hunting shops and hardware stores.
You can wash them in the washing machine or even use the garden hose and a bucket with water and soap.
In my opinion it's the best you can get.

 

[devon deer stalker]

Duvet cover

 

[Mr. Gain]

I have a couple of fly nets that are made like keep nets for fishing, but with a finer mesh and strong webbing at the top to hang them. The bottom has a draw-cord closure. They work well, as the fabric never touches the carcass so flies can't reach it through the mesh (which ordinary fly nets can permit). They aren't perfect, however, (a) because they are too bulky to carry when stalking, and (b) because you can't remove the hoops to wash the net in the machine, so they get washed in a kiddie's paddling pool instead.
Due to the portability issue, I take a soft Mjoelner net for immediate use, and use the hooped net for times when I can get straight back to the car. Unfortunately, the hooped nets seem no longer to be sold/produced.
When gralloching more than one animal, I put the first lot of gralloch 20 m or so downwind and find it will attract almost all the flies that would otherwise bother me at the second carcass. Meanwhile, the first carcass hangs in a hooped net.