How the heck do I get rid of fire ants inside the chicken run?? 😱😱😱

[Brooks_]

pet safe fire ant dust.

Does that exist?

 

[Jld13]

You have to find the mound and kill it with pet safe fire ant dust.

What kind is pet safe?!

 

[Jld13]

Boiling water on the mound works.
Id also say possibly boric acid may work too, don't think it'll be too bad on the chickie poos.

Aaron

Okay thank you I will look into that!

 

[Brooks_]

Yes I have used this for years in the chicken run and outside of it where my dogs play. Never have had an issue.

Noted. Literally.

 

[Jld13]

Boiling water will work temporarily / but it will not reach down as far as you need to go to kill the queen. Once her top workers start dying, she will start reproducing like crazy and within a week or so a new mound will appear close to the old one. So this may work temporarily, but you must kill the queen in order to kill the whole mound.

Ugh. Ok. That’s true. I didn’t think about the Queen.

 

[Jld13]

Yes I have used this for years in the chicken run and outside of it where my dogs play. Never have had an issue.

Where do you buy yours? I just looked at Amazon and Home Depot online and it doesn’t come up?

 

[Brooks_]

Boiling water will work temporarily / but it will not reach down as far as you need to go to kill the queen. Once her top workers start dying, she will start reproducing like crazy and within a week or so a new mound will appear close to the old one. So this may work temporarily, but you must kill the queen in order to kill the whole mound.

I've not had any near enough my chicks to be concerned. If they stay far enough from the house is good enough for me. It would be a small fortune to actually eradicate them from the property.

 

[Aapomp831]

I've not had any near enough my chicks to be concerned. If they stay far enough from the house is good enough for me. It would be a small fortune to actually eradicate them from the property.

Just get some dust and sprinkle it on every mound you find. Do you know what they look like? We’re on 2 acres in NC so fire ants are part of life. The chickens seem to naturally avoid the mounds (so do my dogs) but we don’t want them around. I take the dust with me when I mow the lawn and when I come across a mound I sprinkle it. Very easy and def doesn’t cost a small fortune!

 

[Jld13]

Yes I have used this for years in the chicken run and outside of it where my dogs play. Never have had an issue.

Where do you buy yours? I looked at Amazon and on Home Depot online and can’t find it. If it’s as good as you say I must find it and kill these little buggers

 

[cmom]

I have used permethrin. Not sure if it actually kills them but they disappear.