Controlling flies using bags of water.

[sunflowerenvy]

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could some post that article or their email.
how much water and how many penny too?
thank you
laura

 

[jerseygirl1]

I picked this post up the other day, I have the bottle, Iam going to try it

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=340638

 

[rivers2011]

A friend of mine tried it with great success! Her kitchen was free of fruit and house flies after placing large ziplock bags around, each with a few pennies at the bottom!

 

[growsaposy]

I use pennies in my birdbath and animal water buckets to keep algae from forming so will try the water bag with pennies. Good luck to all of us!

 

[gsim]

Still no fly problems after 5 years. I think I just happened to come up with a good coop design when I laid mine out. (See my coop pix on this site)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/gsims-chicken-coop


I do scrape the poop boards clean every AM just around dawn when I let the inmates out for the day. I keep their food inside, but their water has always been outside. They will stay outside all day long even in rainy weather because I put up a sheltered 9 ft long rainy day perch. It is really less than one day every three or four weeks that I even see any poop on the floor. When I see it, I just scoop it up and toss it out into the run.

So I think that my design and daily cleaning (3 minutes total) has saved me from flies in the coop. I do see them out in the run where the girls all poop, but I expect that. My coop never stinks, ever. All you will smell in there is the grass clippings I use year-round for litter.

That said, you can buy fly paper in rolls that are up to 6" wide. I have seen it used in dairy barns. That size would be far less likely to have to be changed too often.

Again, see my coop page on this site. I used smooth poop boards 2 ft wide, formica topped. As I say, I scrape them clean each AM and I am out of that coop in around 3 minutes every day except when I refill their feed trough. Then I am out of the coop in four minutes.