How can I keep flys out of my coop?!!

[Hillbillenigma]

Also, check out Poultry Dust to sprinkle in the next boxes and under the roosts.

 

[RojoMarz]

One thing I recommend not doing...do not use the fly bag trap. We used them last summer. They did work, but the "something dead" smell was so strong it would make you nauseous. We even moved it outside of the coop and hung it in the shade, still no relief from the smell (and it wasn't that full with flies).

I'm assuming you don't have a poop board? We do and it makes cleaning so much easier. Sift the poop board (like you would a cat box) and take poop to compost pile. The coop floor stays mostly free of poop.

 

[David61]

No, no...
This is easy to fix. If you are going to use pine shaving you have to keep the area relatively dry. A covered / roofed coop/run that has good drainage around it so no heavy water comes in. If that is not possible switch to wood chips.
Now for flies, Two little things keeps them in check for weeks at a time. Sweet PDZ and martins permethrin 13.3. Don't get powder, premixed fly spray, permethrin 10...
Get the 13.3 and mix it for fly control. Mixing directions comes with the bottle for animals, building foundations, bugs.
Clean the coop/run changing out shavings. Sprinkle a little PDZ around. put down new pine shaving. spray everything with a bug sprayer mixed with 13.3 permethrin @ about 1 1/2 oz per gallon.(read directions). spray 6' to 10' around the perimeter of the coop run.
You will have to spray again every two or three weeks but no more flies EVER! If your pine shaving are wet for more than two day, rake them out and go again. I have been doing this for going on 4 years and know this all to well. My roofed coop/run and nest boxes are pine shavings with poop board and outside run wood chips.
No flies, no smell if i follow simple rules.
1) good drainage

2) keep inside dry and change pine shavings when wet or every two months.

3) Keep adding wood chips outside as needed.

 

[Folly's place]

All good advice. Last year I tried something that I thought would never work, and it really made a difference! Those tree shaped vanilla scented car thingies, that you can hang in the car. I hung them near windows out there, didn't want overpowering fragrances, and the flies were gone.
The Spalding fly predators help too at the barn and pasture.
Mary

 

[Kiki]

Keep it DRY and use:
Check this out! https://a.co/d/0zBS1GP

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Thanks sooo much!

 

[dawg53]

Window screen is your friend. A roll of it doesnt cost much. See pics in post 2, 5, and 6 in this link:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/fowl-pox.1532436/#post-25837650