JimmyJames
In the Brooder
- Aug 15, 2023
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Hello all!
Very new here and really appreciative of this community. We just got our quail yesterday after months of researching and building a hutch etc...
They are so lovely, and we are very excited. But. holy moly, the flies.
We put them in the outdoor hutch and instantly, I mean INSTANTLY (even before they pooped) the flies were everywhere.
We don't particularly have a fly problem at our house, they are around for sure, but not a nuisance.
We got them from a ranch near us that had about 300 in a large aviary and were thinking that maybe they were dirty from being in there?
I have looked online and seen that vanilla car fresheners will work and also the obvious hanging fly traps.
Does anyone have any suggestions to help?
A little more about the hutch:
It's in two sections, one is enclosed in 1/4 chicken wire (with the floor wire being coated) and the second half is totally enclosed for some privacy. (this section has 1/4 of it filled with sand and wood ash).
I may have made the mistake of 1/4 hardware cloth on the bottom, cause it doesn't seem as though the poop is going through. (we were just so worried about the skunks, rats, raccoons etc that we get coming through our little yard.)
I don't have a tray underneath the wired side. (and there don't seem to be any flies at all in the enclosed sand bottom side.
Any help would be VERY much appreciated. Thank you so much!
~Quail I'll be damned, look at all these flies!
Very new here and really appreciative of this community. We just got our quail yesterday after months of researching and building a hutch etc...
They are so lovely, and we are very excited. But. holy moly, the flies.
We put them in the outdoor hutch and instantly, I mean INSTANTLY (even before they pooped) the flies were everywhere.
We don't particularly have a fly problem at our house, they are around for sure, but not a nuisance.
We got them from a ranch near us that had about 300 in a large aviary and were thinking that maybe they were dirty from being in there?
I have looked online and seen that vanilla car fresheners will work and also the obvious hanging fly traps.
Does anyone have any suggestions to help?
A little more about the hutch:
It's in two sections, one is enclosed in 1/4 chicken wire (with the floor wire being coated) and the second half is totally enclosed for some privacy. (this section has 1/4 of it filled with sand and wood ash).
I may have made the mistake of 1/4 hardware cloth on the bottom, cause it doesn't seem as though the poop is going through. (we were just so worried about the skunks, rats, raccoons etc that we get coming through our little yard.)
I don't have a tray underneath the wired side. (and there don't seem to be any flies at all in the enclosed sand bottom side.
Any help would be VERY much appreciated. Thank you so much!
~Quail I'll be damned, look at all these flies!