Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

Grits is the same theory... super dry food, dehydrates them.. didn't
worked for me, but I've heard people swear by it..

I've been using that Prozap Garden and Poultry Dust. It's killing them, but there are so many hills of them. Every time I attack the hills it kills a bunch of them, but a couple day's later there they are again! Now we have the high wind's of the monsoon, and the queens have wing's and are ready to spread out to make new one's.

If the ant's are biting us people, you know that they are biting the chickens, and they are stealing the feed when I put it out!

 

[meetthebubus]

@BlueBaby well my hubby did the research on the cream of wheat but from what I heard he said it works like rice.. the grains are tiny for the ants, they take it back, eat it, it grows and kills them like dried rice can for birds you leave it in a container with small holes so the chickens don't get to it and so I'm trying it but at least the DE stops them from crawling and attacking I had 2 hills inside the mini mansion and after the DE they haven't come back there in 3 days so far...


Those poison granules I have work SO well, like ten tiny granules kills the colony but you can't use it around the chickens bc it's poison and I've seen a chicken snatch a big food crumble from an ant once so nope


Oh and I love nature God's way of taking care of things, a tiny frog came in the run last night and it will eat lots of ants for me I need more frogs lol

 

[meetthebubus]

7 am and 80% humidity.. yikes! Its still ok out though the chickens can handle humidity alot better it seems... me? Im sweating bullets lol

 

[igorsMistress]

Ant baits guys. Those little stakes with the bait inside. Chickens can't eat the poison, my girls don't eat the ants, and we have very few issues. As soon as we see a trail, out comes the bait and they're gone in short order.

 

[FeatherPugs]

@igorsMistress I think the chickens will peck at the "hole" in the ant baits - I have used them often in the garden area but not in the chicken yard unless I can hide the hole from the chickens. My take only - they do work well in the garden though. In the chicken yard I've been using cinnamon - I sprinkle it on whatever the ants are on - they scramble and probably just move on to somewhere else - that works for me. No ants in the chicken yard!! @meetthebubus more than once I ran into a nest or large group of ants unawares - AND more than once I've ripped my clothes off running to the shower to get them off they were biting me so bad. I'm sure it was a sight to see! hahaha

 

[azurbanclucker]

+1 for ant baits. I've not had the girls bother one yet, but I do put them where the pigs can't mess with them.

 

[igorsMistress]

+1 for ant baits. I've not had the girls bother one yet, but I do put them where the pigs can't mess with them.

X 2 my girls ignore them. They're not edible and those ants are mean!

 

[BlueBaby]

@BlueBaby well my hubby did the research on the cream of wheat but from what I heard he said it works like rice.. the grains are tiny for the ants, they take it back, eat it, it grows and kills them like dried rice can for birds you leave it in a container with small holes so the chickens don't get to it and so I'm trying it but at least the DE stops them from crawling and attacking I had 2 hills inside the mini mansion and after the DE they haven't come back there in 3 days so far...


Those poison granules I have work SO well, like ten tiny granules kills the colony but you can't use it around the chickens bc it's poison and I've seen a chicken snatch a big food crumble from an ant once so nope


Oh and I love nature God's way of taking care of things, a tiny frog came in the run last night and it will eat lots of ants for me I need more frogs lol

I can see the dried rice and the birds theory. They fill up on the dry rice, and after they drink water it causes the rice to swell up and pop the birds.

I know that you can't use the granules in the coop and run, or wherever your chickens are if you free-range them. I don't free range mine, except for the excess roosters that I don't want to keep. We have some of the granule one, but I use that in the other parts of the yard. It took me 2 weeks to get it through hubbies head that I couldn't use that type in the coop and run where my chickens are, and that I needed the Prozap. I bought my first one from Amazon, but now found that the Pet Club near me carries it, too.

That little frog might not live long around the chickens. They might eat it.

 

[meetthebubus]

They don't like the frogs, might be some protection film the frog has they also don't go after lizards unless they are itty bitty baby ones which tend to stay away the run



Lots of drama happening my ee rooster has decided he wants to be alpha roo so he attacked sweet gentle Roo Bubu who got a scrape on his crest and is hiding in the coop where he never goes usually.

Marshmellow is nice to the girls and nice to humans so I'm not getting rid of him.

What I will do is separate them again this time the smaller part will be for the buffs since they usually stay there anyhow and there is only 7 of them including Roo.

The other side is larger and the ee's will use that side maybe in 6 months from now marshmellow won't feel the need to fight and they can come together again

Anyhow if either side needs more room I can expand out which I was planning on doing anyhow

I just feel so bad for my sweet boy Roo, he's always been a lover of his girls never a fighter so he runs screaming from Marshmellow and hides so tonight he'll have his own space once again with his girls

 

[BlueBaby]

They don't like the frogs, might be some protection film the frog has they also don't go after lizards unless they are itty bitty baby ones which tend to stay away the run



Lots of drama happening my ee rooster has decided he wants to be alpha roo so he attacked sweet gentle Roo Bubu who got a scrape on his crest and is hiding in the coop where he never goes usually.

Marshmellow is nice to the girls and nice to humans so I'm not getting rid of him.

What I will do is separate them again this time the smaller part will be for the buffs since they usually stay there anyhow and there is only 7 of them including Roo.

The other side is larger and the ee's will use that side maybe in 6 months from now marshmellow won't feel the need to fight and they can come together again

Anyhow if either side needs more room I can expand out which I was planning on doing anyhow

I just feel so bad for my sweet boy Roo, he's always been a lover of his girls never a fighter so he runs screaming from Marshmellow and hides so tonight he'll have his own space once again with his girls

I sure hope that separating them will work for you, and that your buff hen's will still be ok with Roo after seeing what a chicken he's been running away.