Duck dabbling a permethrin

[TSOWOATNKC]

We have a lot of noseeums on our property. In an effort to reduce their numbers I’m planning to try dusting the yard with permethrin. What should I do regarding my ducks need to dabble since the ground would have permethrin on it?

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Permethrin is the synthetic version of Pyrethrin and Pyrethrin is nothing more than the dried and finely ground flowers of Marigolds & Cresampthims. Also Pyrethrin is rendered useless by sunlight in as little as 24 hours while Permethrin works for up to 30 days.

In some South American Countries unscruplious chicken keepers add Maragold and Cresampthim flowers to their commercial chicken feed because it turns egg yolks a bright orange and this enables the unscruplious keeken keepers to sell their commercial laying flock eggs as free range eggs. So I would say that your ducks have nothing to fear.

If you really and truly have a noseeum problem then it may better fit your case if you bone up on the species of noseeum that you are dealing with and devise a strategy to modify the environment around your coop in such a way that you stop the noseeums from breeding on or populating your real estate.

 

[TSOWOATNKC]

Decreasing standing water is the best way to decrease populations, but I live on a woodland wetland, next to a non-tidal wetland. I’ll never get rid of them completely; I’ve made peace with that. I just want to get them out of the duck yard.