HELP please need fly killer

[smom1976]

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do any of those chemicals hurt the chickens?

 

[Rambar Ranch]

We use an item called QuickBayt. Its sold at farm supply stores. It will kill flies in about 2 minutes. You just need a few of the granules sprinkled on an old feed bag and put it at the where the flies are congregating and they start dropping VERY quick. The only precaution is to have it where poultry can't get to it as it will harm them. The knockdown of the flies is phenomenal and it las for about a week. Every week we just roll up the bag of dead flies and sprinkle a little more on another bag.

 

[Wildsky]

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I made sure to keep chemicals away from them, the spray on a timer is in the barn next door, there is a window between them but the barn is pretty big - the spray is pointed away from the coop.

Other than that, the premise spray I used was also only in the horse run area, and the horse is the only one who gets sprayed.

 

[Aurynsdream]

I use these things- they are the disposable "rescue" fly traps

they work like a dream.
You fill em up with water to the line and hang it somewhere.
I have 2 up right now- within a week they were completely full (its really disgusting how many there are) and I had no more flies. You just cut it down and throw it away.

Of course now it started to rain and the berries from the ficus tree are on the floor fermenting. I will be hanging up 2 more traps this weekend.

I got them at home depot for $4 each

 

[RoyalHillsLLC]

Permethrin spray is perfectly safe for full grown birds. You spray it on the walls, the wire, etc and when the flies light on it it kills them. very effective and safe.
The water-filled fly traps also help. I used a flies-be-gone fly trap and it was very effective until the coons started eating them.
if you need help finding permethrin let me know. it is available at most every store.

 

[ams3651]

I posted this in another thread a few weeks ago....

a couple miles down the road is a large industrial chicken farm, they were required by the township to make traps. I dont have a photo but the general idea is to take a 55gal drum and cut the top off. Put some rotting meat and fly poison in the bottom take fine wire mesh and shape into a cone with a small openingat the bottom and large enough to be secured to the rim on the other end, place upside down into the drum as so the flys can get in but cant get back out. Anyone who has ever made a minnow trap knows what I mean. We have also purchased fly poison granuals from TSC when spring thawed a little early on my dads maneure piles, just have to put it where nothing gets into it but it works.

 

[LynneP]

You can also get no-pest strips to hang inside the coop to give your birds a refuge. Hang it high, not over food or water. It's good for flies, mites, ticks, fleas. Safe for home or barn too. The fumes will help in the run, you could use one in a roofed run as we do. lasts 3 months, costs $8-10

 

[smom1976]

I have two fly strips in the run and they each have about 30 flies on them.. I also have one of those bags the exact one that is the picture above.. I would hope that they are really idiot proof but mine doesnt seem to be.. only one fly in it.

I raked out the coop of all the grass stuff and the leftovers and most of the flies went with it.. seemed much more manageable... we give our chickens all our leftovers..by the way chickens love hotdogs.. LOL

anyway still I wonder if I got a dud of a bag??

 

[1acrefarm]

Those rescue fly traps sometimes take a few days to get going good. Once they do get going good look out. You can easily change those weekly on heavy infestations. If you go much longer than a week you have to change them full or not.(odor) After a time they do stink so I move the old to the woods to finish filling and put a new one by run.

 

[Bossroo]

If you know where the flies are breeding , release some fly predators ( very tiny wasps that lay their eggs inside the fly pupae and their larvae eats the fly pupae). Wa la no more flies. They are advertised in all of the horse magazines for mail order.