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Significant decrease in weight gains of calves have been attributed to the stress, annoyance, blood loss, and reduced feed efficiency resulting from horn fly infestation (Campbell, 1976; Quisenberry and Strohbehn, 1984).
Cattle can be so tortured by blood-sucking flies, the horn fly in particular, that they eat poorly and their milk production and weight suffer, explains G.
 
 
 
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