Flies what to do

[snow5164]

Here it’s fresh poop that attracts the fly’s , I wouldn’t spray that’s only a temporary fix since there are a million more flys.....

I know this sounds strange but there are smells fly’s don’t like , I’ve heard lemon and vanilla ( car smelly things), I used fresh mint I cut pieces and stuck them in my window screens ... literally I did not have a single fly in the coop til the mint dried up

And now we have cold and even some snow yeah!! No more bugs , I hate bugs!!

 

[snow5164]

I just turn the dirt in their pen . I use ceder wood chips on the dirt ground and I have a roof over their coop and we only have 8 chicks I think they have enough room according to the guide lines.

Cedar is not good for chickens, pine is much better .

 

[HenHouse4Life]

Vanilla.... flies HATE vanilla

 

[jshep]

Here it’s fresh poop that attracts the fly’s , I wouldn’t spray that’s only a temporary fix since there are a million more flys.....

I know this sounds strange but there are smells fly’s don’t like , I’ve heard lemon and vanilla ( car smelly things), I used fresh mint I cut pieces and stuck them in my window screens ... literally I did not have a single fly in the coop til the mint dried up

And now we have cold and even some snow yeah!! No more bugs , I hate bugs!!

 

[jshep]

Thanks sounds like a real winner i will try the mint and mint keeps mosquito's away that is what i have read .

 

[pennyJo1960]

there are hanging bags you can even buy packs of them from amazon that is what we use
https://www.amazon.com/RESCUE-Non-T...46&sprefix=fly+bags,aps,375&sr=8-1&ref=sr_1_1

 

[rosemarythyme]

there are hanging bags you can even buy packs of them from amazon that is what we use

I tried these fly traps the first time this year and they're pretty incredible. They take a few days to get going (and then smells really awful), but you'll seriously catch hundreds of flies as long as you place it correctly.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I do hang them but my main coop is a geodesic dome 17 square foot in diameter
so very tall the Son goes out hangs it really high he is not short like me
so I do not smell them when half full he removes them hangs a new one

 

[Jim Wellman]

I'm having No See Um issues in northeast Florida. No See Ums go by all sorts of names, but are extremely tiny flies that bite and like open sources of water. They're little devils. My No See Ums were all over the inside and outside of my coop. There seem to be thousands of them.
Last night I put a Black Flag Bug Zapper in the coop.
I also smashed a bunch with a t-shirt.
This morning, most all were gone. The Black Flag Bug Zapper is working nicely. I was able to shake lots of dead No See Ums out of it this morning. The bug zapper will kill more than just No See Ums.
I also just installed a small fan in the overhead of my coop to blow these little devils out.

 

[Jim Wellman]

Another thing to consider. When I was a child, I sprayed bug spray on some ants that were crawling on a few pieces of corn. My chicken ate the corn and passed away in an extremely traumatic manner (to an 8 year old). I'll never again use pesticides in my yard as long as I have animals running around.