Flies, flies, and more flies.

[mixedUPturk]

 

[cmom]

I had a bout with mites awhile back and a lot of flies. I used permethrin concentrate, mixed it with water in a sprayer and sprayed in the coops thoroughly. With the mites, it does not kill the mite eggs so I had to repeat spraying. My surprise was it also eliminated most of the flies which I also had a lot of. It is used on cattle for flies and it works. I have way less flies now. If you have a TSC they carry the permethrin powder, premixed spray bottles and the concentrate. Some of the cow ear tags also have permethrin in them to control the flies.

 

[cmom]

With the permethrin, there is no egg withdrawal period.

 

[Afroggie4u]

I was having a pretty bad problem this year due to a litter of kittens that took out all my fly eating western fence lizards hit) that lived around the house and ate flys. But then, then, there developed a huge number of baby toads that have now controlled the problem! love). Do not overlook natural predators as a control, and you can buy fly predators (an insect that lays a single egg in each larvae) over the internet and they do work. I was considering getting some this year until I was "saved by the toads".

Frogs get eaten by my ducks and sometimes my chickens unfortunately.