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Monday, January 12, 2009

Autogate In Your BHs !!!


"Harry, I saw the auto gate picture in your blog today. Can you elaborate the functions and what happen if the system jam and cannot be open for the whole week?"

Well, well, well..........

A very interesting question and I have to admit that I have not tried to install any of these in any of my BH yet.

There are many reasons why Auto gate is good and bad for your BH.

First it will prevent your BH from those burglars. This is true if your BH is having more then 500 nests or so. If you have just started the system might be redundant.

I was in Banting, Selangor the other day when I visited a BH. At the entrance hole the owner installed an auto gate. It was no longer in operation. I opened my mouth to ask what happened.

"Harry we installed the system too early and it was not useful at all since we have very little nests. Those burglars knows which house to enter. We also have those electrical wires around the perimeter but they have broken down now."

So why you install in the first place?
"Well Harry you know why. Those stupid "Consultant" push everything under the sun and we went for it. We were very stupid."

That is a very good answer. At least he realised his mistakes.

The second purpose is to keep those owl away. If you have the gate with grill or about 8 inch by 6 inch boxes, the birds can enter while those owl will not.

If that is so why don't you install the grill minus the auto gate?

There are people who are so concern about the owls and burglars, they will spend thousands of dollar and at the end of the day these gadget breaks down and the BH will be back to square one.

I strongly recommend to install this gadget once your BH is well populated. Say once your nest populations reaches 300 or 400 nests, you might want to consider this option.

I still wish to remind you that there are lots of advantage if your BH is being burgled at least once. Reason being those broken eggs and dead babies will attract more birds to enter and stay in your BH.

So let the house be buglarised once and get those gate up.
Try to avoid using full covered gate.
If you install this type you need to open an exist hole somewhere in your BH just in case the system jam or there is no electricity for the whole day or week.

What say you?

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