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I use DE regularly as well in coop and in run and dusting piles but it has just rained so hard and these ants are in numbers I have not seen ever. As I said...the mounds are huge. I heard you can use splenda and it kills the ants but what about the chickens. I would never use that stuff for...

I need to go find some black ants!

REALLY! Does it just slow the colony down or kill them, dont you have to get to the queen or something? Does cornmeal do anything to the chickens?? Will they try to eat it.

Thanks....I guess the Diatamaceous earth will have to do for now and I think it should be drying out in the next day or two for hopefully a few days. These mounds are SOOOOOOOOO big - I would put the fire ant killer on the mounds and put a bucket over it to keep the chickens out but my horses...

Its been raining a bit and now all these fire ant mounds are popping up where the chickens roam and inside coop area. I dont want to put down anything that will make the chickens sick and die. Never had a problem this bad before, what can be used to treat/kill ant colony and not hurt chickens...