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CRAP!!! No pun intended! I have now. We had an unusualy hot run of weather this summer and for some reason, more flies than normal. Not the manure causing it, we have that piled almost 1/4 mile away, downhill, from anywhere the chickens live or run. Probably the mild winter we had last year. I swatted flies, I hung no-pest strips, fly paper and put screening over their windows. You occasionaly will still get one now from their door being opened but the no pest-strip seems to be taking care of that.BOOM BABY! FLIES! They do not have to catch flies for the insect to be a vector. All fly has to do is walk over infected poo / soil then land on food in brooder transferring spores. Flies are nown to vector all sorts of goodies on their feet. Can you deny flies access to brooder?
Wow, everyone knows flies are filthy but it never even entered my mind they could have caused this. Expletive, expletive, expletive! Well, the rains have started up here and very soon all of the leaves will be down and the manure pile will be burned. I also think that a heavy application of lime is in order before the ground freezes. Get it done just before it's going to rain so it will soak in.
Thanks! Sometimes you just have to ramble to find the root of the problem. Is this it? Who knows, but it makes more sense than a lot of other things I've thought of.