Natural Fly & Mosquito Repellent: Essential Oil Recipes for Animals

Learn about safe ingredients for natural insect repellent recipes and how to make them for your livestock and pets to keep them happy.

By Jackie Wilt
Updated on June 30, 2025
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Discover safe ingredients for natural mosquito repellent essential oil recipes and learn how to create effective pest control for animals, including livestock and pets.

Spring and summer are accompanied by many beautiful and wonderful new living things in our barnyards. However, these seasons also usher in many unwanted pests – mosquitoes, flies, ticks, fleas and lice – that can make our livestock and pets miserable, contribute to disease, and reduce production.

We often resort to using chemicals for pest control, but there are many issues with their use, especially if you are trying to raise organic stock. Pests can develop immunity to pesticides over time, making them less effective. In addition, there are possible toxic side effects to chemicals, and many of us are eager to exclude or reduce them from our environment, our food and our water.

So, before investing in any of these often expensive, potentially toxic chemicals this year, consider utilizing some all-natural techniques to control the pests that pester your animals.

Let’s look at a few of the possibilities:

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