Electric bug zappers??? A good idea in the run area or not?

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Mine has it's own built in dusk to dawn sensor on top, which can be disabled if you choose, but point is most new models probably come with one already. It was $40 at Wally world and it's the larger sized model. I had a black light fluorescent bug zapper in my coop all of last summer, and as far as I can tell it didn't affect the chickens in any way.
When it would get clogged up with large moths in the screen, I would simply take the screen out (it was hardware cloth) and put it in the coop for them to clean for me. June bugs are another biggie, chickens loooove them, but they're so big they tend to get stuck to the zapper instead of falling to the floor. No problem though, disassemble one morning, let them clean it, and reassemble it in the evening. hehehehe

I would still use it, except that my chickens are now strictly non-electric
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so I would definitely say it didn't cause any problems for the birdies.
 
My girls love ours. Southern fried bugs. Only draw back is it doesn't seem to work on flies.
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You might be a Redneck if.........you have a bug zapper in your chicken coop.
 
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....and the evening's entertainment entails sitting in lawnchairs, drinking beer, and commenting on the bugs frying as if they were fireworks.

(Fixed for clarity, because we are SO getting a bug zapper for the chicken run)
 
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GREAT IDEA!!!
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I did try that, and my rooster stayed up all night chasing bugs. That did NOT happen when I used the black light colored bug zapper.
 
I was sitting outside last night. watching all the chickens get their last morsel. THe grasshoppers have just started to fly about and it is funny watching the chickens trying to catch them in mid air! LOL
 
Think I may try this I have to open and close the run door every morning and evening so I might as well add another job with it
 

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