2025 ANTS RULE and always will...

[Yorkiekisses]

Not if I can help it! I hear "only a few, don't worry about it". There's no such thing as a "few" ants. Were there is 1, there is a million. Ants are the smartest, strongest, most relentless creature on this planet. So how do I keep them out of my coup? One thing. Terro Outdoor Liquid Ant Baits. They have a thick gel inside. Rain keeps out & stakes keep them from blowing away. In Spring (or first signs) I put them around the outer perimeter of their fenced play area. My coup is raised so I put them at the bottom of each post and the bottom of the ramp and/or stairs on each side after locking them inside the coup at night. I remove any bait containers that the chickens/animals could possible get to, in the morning before letting them out. Then I clean & vaccum with shop vac, the inside of the coup. I spray ant trails, posts, ramps ect with vinegar water & do like/use good old DE for all it's other benefits. These baits are poison so it is best to NOT put them in with the chickens/animals. This usually stops them in 12 to 24 hours. The outer perimeter baits I do cover with a flat stone/brick as in Oklahoma we get 80mph winds alot. After that I just need to monitor but always keep the perimeter baits filled.

 

[Debbie292d]

DE in the yard, around our house, and in our coop is all I've ever used for decades.

If any make it in the house, that tells me to go around the outside of the house with it again, and that takes care of it. Same with the coop.

 

[Yorkiekisses]

DE in the yard, around our house, and in our coop is all I've ever used for decades.

If any make it in the house, that tells me to go around the outside of the house with it again, and that takes care of it. Same with the coop.

I wish I could only use the DE but in Oklahoma we get flash floods daily spring and DE won't work once wet.

 

[WhoDatChick]

DE in the yard, around our house, and in our coop is all I've ever used for decades.

If any make it in the house, that tells me to go around the outside of the house with it again, and that takes care of it. Same with the coop.

I have dirt floor coops/runs… I just sprinkled DE because there were billions of red ants! They didn’t care! They are all still in there… it is as if the floor of the run IS the ant pile! It’s insane… my gals cannot live like that… I so wish it was that easy…

 

[WhoDatChick]

Not if I can help it! I hear "only a few, don't worry about it". There's no such thing as a "few" ants. Were there is 1, there is a million. Ants are the smartest, strongest, most relentless creature on this planet. So how do I keep them out of my coup? One thing. Terro Outdoor Liquid Ant Baits. They have a thick gel inside. Rain keeps out & stakes keep them from blowing away. In Spring (or first signs) I put them around the outer perimeter of their fenced play area. My coup is raised so I put them at the bottom of each post and the bottom of the ramp and/or stairs on each side after locking them inside the coup at night. I remove any bait containers that the chickens/animals could possible get to, in the morning before letting them out. Then I clean & vaccum with shop vac, the inside of the coup. I spray ant trails, posts, ramps ect with vinegar water & do like/use good old DE for all it's other benefits. These baits are poison so it is best to NOT put them in with the chickens/animals. This usually stops them in 12 to 24 hours. The outer perimeter baits I do cover with a flat stone/brick as in Oklahoma we get 80mph winds alot. After that I just need to monitor but always keep the perimeter baits filled.

I will try these… thank you!

 

[Al Gerhart]

Soapy water will drown ants very quickly just by spraying them. Kill enough and the ants learn to avoid the area.

 

[dearmeghann]

We're having such a bad ant year. Now we're getting those mutant black ants that bite just as bad as fire ants. I'll try those ant baits outside of our chicken area. Inside, we use DE but it barely works.