Beware the sticky fly strips.

[Godsgrl]

Sorry about your chicken! Poor girl! I would try lots of peanut butter to get the sticky off, then Dawn dish soap to get the peanut butter off. I bought a sticky fly thing last week to control the little fruit flies in my kitchen. I tried to hang it, but it fell, and I caught it. Really caught it-that thing was beyond sticky. Then I touched my glasses. What a mess! It is working on the flies though. Good luck cleaning up your chicken, and that was really smart thinking to use cornstarch to cut the stickiness.

 

[The Sheriff]

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Thanks but she seems to have worked it out herself with dust baths!

 

[Chicky Tocks]

Awww how terrifying that must have been! So glad she got it all worked out.

I set some sticky trays out to catch a mouse once. My son's little black gerbil picked that night to escape. Fortunately I was able to pry his little feet out of the glue and it was a tedious chore getting all of that tacky mess out from between it's toes! But I did and the gerbil lived to tell the story.

 

[Tala]

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Oh that's horrible!!!! I guess lucky for him you didn't use the snap traps!!

 

[yellowchickensmomma]

Last summer I had a fly strip in the barn. While cleaning the barn one day one of my hens steps on the strip, not the tack, and she has had a limp every since. It doesn't seem to bother her, she just stays closer to the barn when I let them out to free range.

I will never use them again.