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Saw this in a field with 2 horses and have no idea what it is. Something to do with feed? but how would it work.
Any ideas??
 

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Looks like some kind of weird bird feeder, the opening at the top for them to pop in and out? Maybe designed like this to keep larger birds away?
 
It looks too low to the ground for horse use they wouldn’t be able to get under the cone part. Can’t see it being for birds either. No bird would go in the top of the tube or underneath the cone for that matter.
I’d say the cone prevents access to the black part from above. The support bar would allow something to climb up and get in from the top though
 
I hope it pulls their legs off one by one and stuffs them up the flies' fundamental orifices! Even the thought of them makes me itch.
 
Thank you James, much appreciated
It must work because I did not see any Horse Flies!
I didn't see any Sharks either so perhaps it is dual purpose?
 
AgentOrange76 said:
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It’s an

Alcochem "H-Trap" Horse Fly Trap​

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Ah!! never seen nor heard of this before but we could have done with a couple down the river we swam in as kids! little baxtards would torment us, only way to shake them off was to go under water
 
I was once bitten by a horse fly whilst swimming. I grabbed it just after it "stung" and disposed of it in the river but had a sore chest for weeks afterwards and it kept returning as a painful red lump! Poor horses!
 
I've been bitten by a variety of insects in a number of countries over the years, and had a sandworm burrowing around under the skin of my left arm for a while when I was a kid. I have vague memories of seeing a doctor at a specialised clinic in Edinburgh because this wasn't a common event in Scotland, or not in the 1950s anyway ...

The worst experience was in South Africa about 30 years ago. We went to Hluhluwe game reserve in Zululand and I got bitten by something. My left index finger blew up, swollen and discoloured with a tiny bite wound, and I was running a pretty high temperature by the time we left. My wife didn't drive then and it was around 500 kms home, which wasn't a great deal of fun - alternate bouts of sweating and shivering - and a grinding headache. I went to the doctor the next day and he prescribed antibiotics which did the trick, but he admitted that he didn't know what had caused this. Of course, ex Africa semper aliquid novi ... I failed Latin at school, but this quotation from Pliny (out of Africa, always something new) seems to describe it perfectly!

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