Christie311
In the Brooder
- Feb 27, 2023
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I have been reading through the past posts about flies but have a question about my specific set up. We have 8 chickens 3 months old now. I am in Ohio and the weather has been nice and very dry. The run is dry. It has pine shavings, grass clippings and leaf clippings in it. The past week I have noticed flies gathering around the entrance of the run, so just outside of it and in the run area itself. Just outside the door of the run where we go in and out is just worn down grass, no poop or anything else, bone dry. I see maybe 10 flies just crawling there. Then inside are more. Grass clippings are mostly dry, if you dig around there may be some damp under there, not much. There is almost no visible poop in the run. It gets mixed in and covered either by us or the chickens. I look to see what are the flies on, nothing, just the grass/shavings. It doesn't smell at all. The run is about 20 feet long maybe 6 feet wide. What is attracting them? I have rabbits that have poop that doesn't get covered and there are very few flies one or two may be there, often there are none....
