fire ants

  1. W

    Fire Ants - Using Molasses To Drive Out Colonies

    Hi All, In the past, I have sprayed molasses on my lawn to drive out fire ants. It seemed to work. Has Anyone used this method inside coops and runs? Could this be dangerous to the chickens?
  2. jaylilsmom

    HELP I have a serious Red Fire Ant Problem

    Hello everyone! I am coming to you all from the ( currently hotter than the pits of hades) Nw corner of Ga. I currently have a handful of chicks, ducklings, and more recently keets who are brooding in a modified chainlink dog run. Every thing has been going very smoothly with this set up so far...
  3. TrixieBlue

    Fire Ants in my coop

    I was using wood shavings in my coops ( I have 2, one for chicks and 1 for ducks) because I was having trouble with flys, I did research and found the sand method which helped cut the fly problem in half. I did that about a month ago, last week I was changing out the feed and water dishes and...
  4. gohappy

    Mosquitoes, Gnats, and Flies

    Here in north Florida we have a lot of rain and a lot of bugs. So I wanted to share what we have done to help keep the mosquitoes, gnats, and flies out of our coop and run. Mosquitoes netting! It is a bit of a pain to roll it up to let the girls out and to collect the eggs as this mesh will rip...
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  5. billgarb

    Fire ants

    I live in the Fort Pierce area in Florida and purchased 8 bantam chicks and I placed them in a box with their adoptive mother in my loft. All was going well. She was taking very good care of them. However this morning when I checked on them I found three dead chicks and fire ants crawling all...
  6. Lazy Farmer

    How "YOU" Control FIre Ants with Your Free Range Chickens Roaming.

    Fire Ants are now out of control. But if you have you Livestock especially Chickens roaming, FIRE ANT SEASON by Farmer Connie posted Jun 21, 2017 at 2:36 PM how would You fight back against these nasty biting pests without using Amdro which looks pretty darn tempting to your unsuspecting...
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