USEFUL STUFF
Strobe light rids your roof of rats
P
lagued by rats in your
roof? Rather than
ridding yourself of
these destructive and noisy
little rodents by laying out
poison (thereby rendering
them harmful to predators),
you can encourage them to
move away and seek more
conducive living quarters by
fitting a light device in your
rafters.
Marketed by Eco Solutions, it
comprises a strobe light that
is aimed at the rats' nests.
Eco Solutions’ strobe light
Much like when a human
looks at a very bright light
source, the bright, erratic
flashing of the light causes the
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and work rate will affect what
one chooses and how much,
but one should bear in mind
that horses are also individu-
als , and , like humans , some
do better on one diet than on
another. A certain amount of
experimentation is called for,
with the proviso that any
change in diet ~ be it of
concentrate or fodder ~
should be made gradually
over a few days if one is to
avoid colic.
Generally, riding horses and
ponies and those on light
work should thrive on a 10%
ration twice daily, at a rate of
a couple of kg a feed (half a
bucket or so). More athletic
rats' pupils to contract,
rendering them (like humans)
temporarily unsighted. This
disorients them and they
soon leave the area in search
of safer hidey-holes.
The device is about the size
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HORSEMANSHIP
horse will settle down for the
horses will require a 12%
concentrate while racehorses
etc will be fed a 14% ration or
higher. Special circumstances
such as mares in foal or horses
recovering from injuries might
require higher or lower
protein rations.
The key to feeding horses is
“little and often . ” I n practical
terms most owners feed hard
rations twice a day, morning
and night, with either nets of
hay provided during the day,
or free access to grazing.
The morning feed should
comprise a ration of protein
(concentrates) while the
evening feed should comprise
concentrates and a large net
of fodder with which the
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night. If, for whatever reason
the horse is kept in its stable
during the day it should have
a net of fodder available to
keep it busy (which will help,
but not eliminate, the
development of stable vices).
Horses allowed free access to
pasture graze more or less
continuously, but peak
grazing periods occur just
after dawn and just before
dark. They spend about 70%
of daylight hours and about
50% of night hours grazing.
This is another reason why
we have to provide a hay
net if we stable the horses at
night.