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Where do you hang them to keep he chickens from picking at them?


We hung them up from the ceiling and on the wire that our feeder hangs from. Ours haven't bothered ours at all. I know some people have hung them in doorways too.

Barred rocks, red sex link, silver wyandotte, white leghorns, mottled cochin banty, silkie, blue swedish and khaki campbell ducks, meat rabbits, white holland turkeys, turtles, cats, and as much garden space as one can cram into a small urban yard half given over to the chickens

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Barred rocks, red sex link, silver wyandotte, white leghorns, mottled cochin banty, silkie, blue swedish and khaki campbell ducks, meat rabbits, white holland turkeys, turtles, cats, and as much garden space as one can cram into a small urban yard half given over to the chickens

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post #12 of 14

Great idea...thanks for sharing! thumbsup.gif

post #13 of 14

I'm definitely going to try the vanilla car freshners!  CA has a multitude of flies and living in the San Joaquin valley means "central livestock and farming' area so the flies know right where to come.  Yuck!  I'm going to hang some on our covered patio, too!

My blog: nativefloridagirl.blog.com  3 Hens in the Sierra Nevada Mountains  1 Barred Rock-Mabel, 2 RIR's Pearl & Mildred live in Coop de Clucks and they have a play pen in addition and now that we've moved to the mountains they live in a new fortress. Chicken math has struck me and we have nine fertile eggs coming 5/20/13 for my broody, Mabel, to hatch.  We also have 1 lab/german shepherd mix...

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My blog: nativefloridagirl.blog.com  3 Hens in the Sierra Nevada Mountains  1 Barred Rock-Mabel, 2 RIR's Pearl & Mildred live in Coop de Clucks and they have a play pen in addition and now that we've moved to the mountains they live in a new fortress. Chicken math has struck me and we have nine fertile eggs coming 5/20/13 for my broody, Mabel, to hatch.  We also have 1 lab/german shepherd mix...

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post #14 of 14

We bought some Terminator Fly Attract, it's a liquid you pour into a jar w/ water, there is a slight opening at the top to attract the flies (you can pick them up at Tractor Supply for about $7.00, the refills are about $5 for two) this works GREAT!!!!!

 

The first time we put one out there it attracted 100's of those little annoying critters. (my husband says it was about 3lbs of water logged dead flies) he dumped it so, he'd know..lol

 

we went out and bought another one and a replacement package and have them hanging down from the roof of the coop to about 8 to 10 inches from the ground, they already have flies in them now, but the first one pretty much eradicated most of them out of the coop.

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