No stinging, they are night flying and completely unoticable to humans. They are about the size of a large aphid about 1/8" or less.
Check out the website: www.Sourceecofly.com
I just got my 4th shipment of them so will be putting them around in a couple of days ....will try to post some...
I had a friend who was just starting out with chickens call me to say she just got her first egg and wanted to know how to handle it...if she should dip it in bleach before eating it? Also, she wanted to know how to keep her chickens from eating any bugs so they wouldn't get inside the eggs...
I have had a blue jay pecking eggs every day now for over a month- today I made a wire tunnel that fits over the ramp coming down from the coop with a bunch of aluminum foil streamers coming down around the open end of the tunnel. The chickens don't seem to mind at all and so far no pecked eggs.
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I have found an amazing fly parasite and have been using them for 4 years nows and get a great result!
Here is the link: http://www.sourceecofly.com/FlyRaptors.html
It does take a couple of weeks for the parasite population to catch up with the fly population and get them
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For your suggestions on how to "coop" my white faced blk spanish renegade(Lucky is her name).
So, I have clipped her wing, I bring her in every night~ which is the funny part of the whole story. I go out every eve at dusk to bring in the 9 yr old americana and spot Lucky...
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I have had chickens for nearly 30 years. Now that the kids are almost all grown up and gone the chickens are getting to be more and more fun. We built a new Coop (I call it Coupe de View) and it is built after the Fresh Air Coops from the early 1900's. We live in Northern Calif, so...