Chickens wont eat flies?

[hendrygg]

My chicken run is overrun with flies and my chickens will not try and eat them. But today i put an injured dragonfly in the run and it couldn't get eaten fast enough.
Any advise about how to get rid of the flies or make them more appetizing?

 

[aggie9296]

DE cuts down on the dampness, smell and flies quite a bit. Some people swear by the little vanilla scented trees for your car. Fly strips or bait traps also work well. The traps get funky smelling when they get a bunch of flies.

 

[southerndesert]

if you could make them clumsy and slow it would help...

But they are just too fast and need to be dealt with as a pest.

 

[al6517]

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This what I do and it does wonders and is a good easy cure, they allways seem to come out when there is excess moisture around.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

we ended up putting a roof over the run to help keep it drier. The flies and stink were awful. And since my neighbors are really really close I had to do something. The DE didnt do much at all. I ended up getting Golden Marlin and setting up bait stations for the flies. Worked like a charm. Just have to make sure the chickens or any other animals you love away from it.
Now any time the flies start looking like they are getting out of control I put out the bait. Got a big thing of it at Agway.
I tried those fly bait bags,, but ewwww gross. And with my luck a fly strip thing would end up stuck to a cat, or one of the resident squirrels. While that would be kinda funny. It would also suck.