New to the cams, fly poop question.

[lilpondarosamini]

I reciently got our cams up and running here on Mare Stare now it seems every fly in the country thinks they need to poop on the lens. Does anyone have a way to keep the lens clean for more than a day or to? I plan on adding a light in each of the two stalls this evening to help the visability at night.

[twosuperstudponies]

Try putting a couple of moth balls around your cam maybe it will keep the moths and the flies away! Or one of those sticky fly strips above the cam!

[lilpondarosamini]

Thanks for the great idea. It will be cleaned in the am or should I say in the daylight.

[luvhorses]

Be careful with mothballs... they are poisonous if eaten so if they happen to drop they could be ingested (napthelene) . A fly strip hung up where the horses can't get to them is the safer option imo.

[lilpondarosamini]

Thanks for the advice it will be taken!!!!!!

[Heather T]

We put mothballs in our chicken house once and the chickens ate them whole. Never hurt them, but I wouldn't eat the eggs for a long time.....

I like to take fly spray and spray it on a towel - then wipe the outside of the cam - not the lens. Usually just having it on the cam will keep them off the lens too.

ahhhhh fly season

[luvhorses]

I like the fly spray idea better than the strip... but put a strip in there away from the horses and use the fly spray too.

But I recall from my in-organic and organic chem days that moth balls are not safe to eat. We had to melt some up fro a chemistry experiment and had to do the experiment under hood because of the fumes. The danger is from the Napthalene in the mothballs.
I recall the bad headache I got from the experiment also.

Maybe you have super chickens.... I dunno.

admin said:

We put mothballs in our chicken house once and the chickens ate them whole. Never hurt them, but I wouldn't eat the eggs for a long time.....

I like to take fly spray and spray it on a towel - then wipe the outside of the cam - not the lens. Usually just having it on the cam will keep them off the lens too.

ahhhhh fly season

[luvhorses]

I thought I'd go and look for some info on mothballs and dug something up... that some teens
sniff them trying to get high. Yikes. There is an ingredient in mothballs that is another concern. www.cbc.ca/health/story/2006/07/27/mothball-sniff.html

Quote from this article:
Mothballs contain paradichlorobenzene, or PDB, a chemical that can cause liver and kidney failure and severe anemia.

Abuse likely underestimated

"PDB is derived from aromatic hydrocarbons, which form one of the families of volatile substances that are
commonly abused," the doctors said.

They urged doctors to be aware of the symptoms, noting the medical literature includes three other cases of people getting high from mothballs.

PBD is easy to abuse since it is found in mothballs and other household products such as air fresheners, toilet bowl and diaper pail deodorizers and insect repellents, the letter writers noted.

Heather, maybe your chickens were trying to get high?

[luvhorses]

Article: What is in moth balls? Is it harmful to people?
home.howstuffworks.com/question210.htm

I just found this website.... very kewl site I must say.

I also learned there at this site that there are two different type of mothballs... one has Napthalene and the other has the PDB.

[luvhorses]

FYI Mothballs (Purdue Education Link)
www.purdue.edu/dp/envirosoft/housewaste/house/mothball.htm

[twosuperstudponies]

WOW< I HAD NO IDEA!! Please don't use the moth balls! Hay, we've squinted through flies and moths before ! If it's safer for the horse we'll just have to deal with it!

[luvhorses]

I was surprised also about some things on those mothball links. I still remember the horrid headache I had the day we had to melt napthelene mothballs. I got real sick in a hurry that day. We had ventilation hoods to work under and used a water trap in our set up to catch the fumes/vapors.... but still some of the fumes escaped during the experiment.

I can't believe that some kids would actually huff mothballs to get high. Scary and very sad.

twosuperstudponies said:

WOW< I HAD NO IDEA!! Please don't use the moth balls! Hay, we've squinted through flies and moths before ! If it's safer for the horse we'll just have to deal with it!