Fireants in Coop

[gallusdomesticus]

uncooked grits......they work like a champ

 

[jeb251]

just try the grits, I'm not going to do a scientific test, I'm a truck driver for the love of Pete, but I have used it many times and it always work gees were not building rocket ships here were killing ants, if it doesn't work its not like your out anything, its getting kind of childish here, I think I will unsubscribe, but give the grits a try.

 

[COOPster]

To Complicated MOVE NORTH

 

[Sillystunt]

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http://www.fireant.net/Control/

There are many myths concerning fireant (or ant) mound elimination or colony elimination. None of the foods (grits, oatmeal, etc.) will cause any type of internal problems with an ant. They do not get fatal flatulence; they do not blow up --it just does not work that way!

When people dump grits or other such objects onto an ant mound, the ants do not appreciate the door of their home being disturbed. They then build another door (mound) to their colony, deserting the one covered with grains. Ants have many uses for their mound (incubating young, etc.) and do not appreciate it when you dump things on top! When all is said and done, the colony did not even move (as most people believe), it just built another doorway to the colony.

http://www.pestproducts.com/grits.htm

If any of you who keep saying grits work can show a SCIENTIFIC reason why they work, I'd be happy to see it.

Otherwise, logic says it's impossible to kill ants by feeding them corn​

it expands and kills them in their small stomachs. Sorry, we used it and it worked. they are all dead......................​

 

[Sillystunt]

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[Bear Foot Farm]

it expands and kills them in their small stomachs. Sorry, we used it and it worked. they are all dead......................

They may be dead, but it's not from the grits, since they don't eat solid food.
But if you prefer myth over science, it's your choice

http://blog.wildaboutants.com/2010/06/21/question-1-ant-digestion/

Because the petiole is so narrow and constricted, ants do have a specialized digestive system. When an ant eats, the food goes into a special pouch called the infrabuccal pocket in its mouth, which acts like a food strainer. The infrabuccal pocket prevents large particles from continuing into the digestive system. Probably the size of the particle allowed through varies from species to species, but in the carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus, particles larger than 100 microns are excluded from entering the alimentary canal . The liquid and tiniest particles that can move through the narrow petiole are sucked into a tube and pass through into a special reservoir in the gaster called the crop. The ant spits out the leftover bits that were too big to go through the food strainer. The rejected bits are called infrabuccal pellets.

Scientists have long known that the worker ants feed all solids to the larvae first for processing. The larvae were thought to chew up, swallow and predigest the food, using enzymes, as you guessed. The larvae then regurgitate it back to the workers to distribute throughout the colony.​

 

[Thundrr-Chicken]

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contact "thepamperedpullet" on byc... they're in ocala and give you a really good deal on it... thats where i got mine

 

[Fruitloopz]

I can't find DE anywhere, went to the feed store yesterday and the owner said he'd order it but its VERY expensive. Which I think was a completely moronic thing to say, I NEED it so just order it! My chickens floor is completely and totally covered with ants now, thankfully they are locked in a smaller house at night which is above the ground but they are dying to get out. I tackled it with a shovel, tried boiling water, am about to go to the store for grits and am just generally about to lose my mind. Yeah, moving up north seems to be a good idea right now. I was wondering something though..if a grit is going to blow up an ants stomach will it hurt the chickens at all? I have never seen so many ants.

 

[1_FnkyFrm]

7 Dust the ants.

 

[tamsteve143]

the chickens won't eat the grits?