Ants all over?

[rhodeislandred1]

thats cute :3 but wont the ants crawl on them and give then ant bites like they do to me? ):

 

[enola]

My chickens also eat ants. They will scratch the ant hill and then peck like crazy. When the ants start crawling up their legs they walk away and then pick the ants off their legs.

 

[coffeychicks]

With the scales on their legs I don't thing they can. Mine stand in the stired up ant and peck peck.

 

[realsis]

I had ants attack one of my girls in her sleep. It was awful. They swarmed on her back side and bit her to blood over night. In the morning I found them all over her bottom.it was a horriable site. I'm moving the roost up higher now hopefully this will stop it. I HATE ants and my poor girl. ... be aware this CAN happen. They attack the anus. Its really awful.

 

[coffeychicks]

Omg poor chickens. Thank god I haven't had this happen yet

 

[chickengeorgeto]

thats cute :3 but wont the ants crawl on them and give then ant bites like they do to me? ):

Some birds wallow in ant hills in order to get mad ants in and among their feathers. Besides biting and stinging some ants also spray formic (?) acid at their antagonist and this discourages mites and other external parasites.

Two 11 year old boys who decided to see who was at the top of the pecking order recently showed up in the ER. They settled the matter by sticking both their arms elbow deep into a large fire ant hill, both of these intrepid men in training lost to the ant hill.

I have yet to find any chickens who are willing to tackle a BIG fire ant mound. However a flock of hens can keep a fire ant colony from getting well established and maybe over time the hens can catch up to and surpass the ability of multiple fire ant queens to make 2,000 to 3,000 new ants a day. A big fire ant mound is in the neighborhood of 2 to 2.5 feet high and can stop a two row farm tractor in its tracks.

Pyrethrum is an insect repellant as well as an insecticide. Mix some used motor oil with a Pyrethrum insecticide and paint the mixture on your roost poles. Not only will ants eat the chicken mites that come out at night to prey on your birds but the ants view your poultry as big chicken mites. This used motor oil and Pyrethrum treatment will repel the ants from your roost poles and your birds as well as help with chicken mites.

 

[rhodeislandred1]

I had ants attack one of my girls in her sleep. It was awful. They swarmed on her back side and bit her to blood over night. In the morning I found them all over her bottom.it was a horriable site. I'm moving the roost up higher now hopefully this will stop it. I HATE ants and my poor girl. ... be aware this CAN happen. They attack the anus. Its really awful.

OMG I'm sorry that happened Wgat did you do then? How is your chicken now?

 

[rhodeislandred1]

Some birds wallow in ant hills in order to get mad ants in and among their feathers. Besides biting and stinging some ants also spray formic (?) acid at their antagonist and this discourages mites and other external parasites.

Two 11 year old boys who decided to see who was at the top of the pecking order recently showed up in the ER. They settled the matter by sticking both their arms elbow deep into a large fire ant hill, both of these intrepid men in training lost to the ant hill.

I have yet to find any chickens who are willing to tackle a BIG fire ant mound. However a flock of hens can keep a fire ant colony from getting well established and maybe over time the hens can catch up to and surpass the ability of multiple fire ant queens to make 2,000 to 3,000 new ants a day. A big fire ant mound is in the neighborhood of 2 to 2.5 feet high and can stop a two row farm tractor in its tracks.

Pyrethrum is an insect repellant as well as an insecticide. Mix some used motor oil with a Pyrethrum insecticide and paint the mixture on your roost poles. Not only will ants eat the chicken mites that come out at night to prey on your birds but the ants view your poultry as big chicken mites. This used motor oil and Pyrethrum treatment will repel the ants from your roost poles and your birds as well as help with chicken mites.

thanks for the advice!