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Quote: The flies were there before I cleaned the board with vinegar.My daughter let them out today, so I wasn't able to check to see if the bugs were there until about noon. No bugs then. . I haven't fed my flock any bread lately, or anything other than what they normally get. Again, the bugs...

Quote: Yup! This morning, there were quite a few on the outside of the coop too!!! I'm so frusterated!! I went out and bought some Stall Dry and sprinkled a little on the poop board, and a little through out the shavings in the coop. If they are there tomorrow morning, I'm going to remove the...

Weirdest thing. Went out this afternoon, about an hour or two after cleaning the poop board with vinegar water, and the bugs were all gone! Every last one of them. Go figure. I guess I will see if they are there tomorrow. It has to be the poo, but not sure why. There is nothing else in the coop...

Thanks for all the replies. I think I will go out and see if I can find some DE or Stall Dri, or something. My coop is really dry though. I just don't get it.

I went out to the coop to see if the flies had disapated since the poop was gone. They were still there! I wiped down the poop board with vinegar water, just to get rid of any smears of poo. Most of the flies were in the window, apparently not smart enough to turn a little to their left to fly...

Quote: Not sure, they free range and get layer feed. Other than that, they have had some tomatoes from my garden and some left over granola that no one in my family was eating. I sat there and stared at the bugs, to make sure they were fruit flies, and they were. We are having alot of rain...

After hearing so many good things about using poop boards under roosts, I went ahead and put one in yesterday. Up until now, I have been using pine shavings a couple of inches deep and just stirred everything around, then cleaned it about once a month. I've only had this coop up and running...