DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

[bruceha2000]

similar trap been around a long time


the principle for both is the flies are drawn to the black surface.... their first instinct is to fly straight up after landing

I have seen beach balls painted black with a skirt of white plastic held in place with a hoola hoop at the bottom... then a funnel into a catch basin at the top.

Like the one you show above I have heard of spactacular catch stats.

Only works with horse deer and cow flies.... Thank goodness we have very very few here in San Diego.



Link to a commercial product
https://www.h-trap.com/

But the Tray one would catch so many more....

deb

PS then there is the hillbilly version

$295 for that "Commercial version"
ouch.

How do you get the horses to wear the hats?

 

[aart]

Quote: Ear holes and 'chin' straps.

 

[aart]

Quote: I would think anyone with horses would know plenty well enough not to set it where they could reach it..SMH.

Though, I fail to see how if I put the fly trap out "on the back 40" how it would attract the flies that are bothering my horses... There is only one place I could put something like that where the horses couldn't knock it over... and there aren't any flies there because... there are no horses to bite... they're all out in the middle of the field bothering my horses...

I would think setting just outside the fence 6" past noe/neck reach would suffice.
...close enough for the horses to be curious and 'lead the flies to the water' so to speak...hahaha!

 

[Jetzler]

I have spent some time looking through all the great ideas posted here.
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for sharing them.

John and Ladawn

 

[bigmrg74]

Though, I fail to see how if I put the fly trap out "on the back 40" how it would attract the flies that are bothering my horses... There is only one place I could put something like that where the horses couldn't knock it over... and there aren't any flies there because... there are no horses to bite... they're all out in the middle of the field bothering my horses...

You would be surprised what they can get into that you would never think would be a problem....

A big name Saddlebred stallion just died a week or so ago because someone left a pitchfork leaning up against the outside of his stall wall for about 5 minutes... Somehow, he got it in his stall, broke it in half, turned it into a sharp spear, gored himself in the gut with it and broke off a big chunk inside him. When the humans came back to get the pitchfork he was down and bleeding everywhere.... They got him to surgery but he had a hard time waking up after and died.

My farrier had one almost completely cut his hoof off on the BARN WALL... he lifted his leg over 2 feet up, put it over a horizontal board (between the board the sheet metal), got his hoof under the metal and pretty much ripped it off...

We had one horse here about 2 or 3 years ago that managed to rip his hoof off just in his stall getting up we think. had the back hoof just dangling and it took mom a while to even realize what had happened to him. popped the stall front off so he wouldn't have to step over the bar to get out and managed to get him to walk out to the back of the barn to put him down.

Also had one that was out in the indoor arena all night and somehow managed to cut his eyeball up. Vet had to remove it, but we never did figure out what he cut it on in the arena, might just have been some late night horse play between him and his buddy's in there. Thing was it calmed him down a lot and made him a better a better trail horse.

 

[MeepBeep]

Also had one that was out in the indoor arena all night and somehow managed to cut his eyeball up.  Vet had to remove it, but we never did figure out what he cut it on in the arena, might just have been some late night horse play between him and his buddy's in there.  Thing was it calmed him down a lot and made him a better a better trail horse.

An old time retired farmer told me that nails backing out of wood was the single thing that caused him the most and repeated injures to his animals... He said sometimes they are obvious and he would catch them in his routine sweeps, but other times they just get very loose and changes in temp/humidity would make the nails creep in and out at will, so they were hard to locate as the nail that crept out and caused the injury might very well have been sucked/pushed back in by the time he went out looking for it... Same thing with warped wood or wood that isn't perfectly snug, a large farm animal leaning on a kick board that isn't perfectly tight could cause a nail to pop out and then retract as soon as the animal stopped leaning, causing you to miss it...

 

[SuperK]

I love this idea-

 

[FaerieGlynne]

I need a good idea for an easy ramp to help my ducks in and out of their kiddie pool. One of my Pekins keeps getting stuck in the pool so I have to keep checking on her and then get her out which can get messy.

 

[bigmrg74]

I need a good idea for an easy ramp to help my ducks in and out of their kiddie pool. One of my Pekins keeps getting stuck in the pool so I have to keep checking on her and then get her out which can get messy.

maybe go with some bricks to make stairs for the pool.

 

[MeepBeep]

I need a good idea for an easy ramp to help my ducks in and out of their kiddie pool. One of my Pekins keeps getting stuck in the pool so I have to keep checking on her and then get her out which can get messy.

Put a cement block/brick or two in there that they can use as a landing pad, it doesn't even need to be a step, just a little helping hand at or just bellow the surface of the water inside the pool will give them the help they need to exit the pool...