How to keep flies away from run

[Kiki]

Martin's Horse & Stable Permethrin Spray

 

[Kiki]

Permethrin 0.25
I use permethrin liquid and dust on my birds and in my coop.

You can use .5% solution on chickens and I believe up to a 1% solution on the coop material.

 

[Isadora]

My mom swears by this. She buys the Irish Spring bar soap and places it around fly infested areas where the chickens can't get to it. She said it's helped a lot in her poultry pens.

 

[Matejka]

You can use .5% solution on chickens and I believe up to a 1% solution on the coop material.

Yes that's what i use. I mix my own. The product op linked to is 0.25%

 

[Happy hen lover]

Make sure it's absolutely 100% impossible for a chicken to contact the fly paper.

I haven't seen it in person, but I've read about the extreme awfulness of the combination.

Oh thanks they're so coated in 2 days ! They weren't sticky anymore. I leaned into one in house it is awful.the fly traps are great stink but they work great.

 

[Finally chickens!]

I also use fly traps .... the stinky bag type. I could tell the difference one hour after I hung one up. Honestly! I have filled six this summer. They aren't too stinky if they aren't disturbed, reasonably priced and really work. I put FSL and Sevin in the house but for smell and mite prevention.

I had a stupid Leghorn get tangled in a fly ribbon twice. She l9st a few feathers. Now I only put them in non-chicken areas.

 

[Audi0]

1st Saturday lime and the hanging fly bags worked great in combination for us in Florida

 

[Folly's place]

This summer I tried something recommended by ??? on a thread here, and it's working! Those spruce tree shaped vanilla scented auto 'air fresheners', and they have kept almost all the flies out on my coop and roofed run! I have them hung near doors, where the birds can't get to them, and there's still plenty of fresh non-scented air flow in the coop. I can't deal with perfumed air either, so it's important that the birds don't have issues with it.
Mary

 

[Judy Todd]

I use fly traps here. Even those old fly ribbon things help.

Yes, that is what I use also. During hot weather they fill up in a week or 2, and I dispose and hang a fresh one. I have 3 hanging in the coop and 3 hanging in the run.

 

[Happy hen lover]

This summer I tried something recommended by ??? on a thread here, and it's working! Those spruce tree shaped vanilla scented auto 'air fresheners', and they have kept almost all the flies out on my coop and roofed run! I have them hung near doors, where the birds can't get to them, and there's still plenty of fresh non-scented air flow in the coop. I can't deal with perfumed air either, so it's important that the birds don't have issues with it.
Mary

I love this idea! Thanks for sharing was going to tell Alexa to add to list but who knows what she would type for a "vanilla car tree scent smelly thing!"