Ascholten
Free Ranging
It is a poison so id not put inside the chicken run. Find out where the ants have nested at, maybe they are under the run, and since it's well... in the way, they are just in there by way of going about their business. Maybe they are eating the poop. Might be some nutrients in it for them, I do not know.
Id also NOT recommend putting down anything in granule form. Being grains, they are much more prone to eat it, it's easier to pick up over a fine dust, and looks like it could be a snack or part of one.
also, as mentioned earlier, the mount WILL split and scatter, so once you kill off one, it may take a few treatments if it's a deep one or had a ton of eggs, it can come back from the eggs, but there will be new mounds from where the groups took off to, once their initial one got nuked. Typically they pop up within a few feet of the old one but you do need to keep vigilant and attack them as soon as they show. Last year the ants got a stronghold on my yard and it was a nightmare finally getting rid of them, this year, im poisoning the hell out of them and so far, I am winning.
Ive seen fireants kill baby birds and everything else, you don't want them around.
Aaron
Id also NOT recommend putting down anything in granule form. Being grains, they are much more prone to eat it, it's easier to pick up over a fine dust, and looks like it could be a snack or part of one.
also, as mentioned earlier, the mount WILL split and scatter, so once you kill off one, it may take a few treatments if it's a deep one or had a ton of eggs, it can come back from the eggs, but there will be new mounds from where the groups took off to, once their initial one got nuked. Typically they pop up within a few feet of the old one but you do need to keep vigilant and attack them as soon as they show. Last year the ants got a stronghold on my yard and it was a nightmare finally getting rid of them, this year, im poisoning the hell out of them and so far, I am winning.
Ive seen fireants kill baby birds and everything else, you don't want them around.
Aaron