Resource Guardianship week 7

5April-8April2011

5April2011
Today we learned the importance of EM this is an natural method of fly prevention it is a mix of micro organisms that combines and helps with many things.We spray it on places flies are mostly like horse stables and so on.This takes away the bad smell and then flies do not get attracted to that certain area.It is not a poison and all it does is stops the flies life cycle.Why we say this is a fly lies the eggs the worms come out then they feed becomes a fly the fly needs to spread its wings so that it dries and then he can only fly now EM stops the spreading of the wing so it is not a fly anymore but a walk.This influences the cycle as it can not carry on to make more. This is an non toxic method we also put it into animals drinking water helps with stomach problems

6April2011
We got to new ways of tick prevention on the animals it is called a Dip Bak.This is an square bucket with rollers on the sides we throw poison on the rollers that kills ticks.In the middle we put molasses or anything the animals can feed of so when they go into feed the roller rolls on there necks and this then kills the ticks

7April2011
Today we put the EM to a test we went and started to spray it at parts of the farm were we have problems with flies for example the back of the Kitchen as well as the dump  and the stables.This was fun but a lot of work and you need to concentrate as the ratio of water and EM must be correct for it to do the job

8April2011
I went to spray EM at the Wildlife center as flies is I very big problem there we sprayed at all problem places.A big thing there with flies is that the feed on the animals ears a specially the lions.So we needed a easy affective way to start getting rid of the flies!!