I thought DE helped with flies??

[SobbaChickens]

I think that the best fly control is getting the hens to poop less by feeding them fermented feed. After that the second best ting is making sure the poop to dry out quickly. We use stall dry on our coop floor and  in the part of the run that is under the coop, we pick up the dried poop once a day with a cat litter scoop and rarely have flies (or odor)  in those areas. As for the rest of yard we use hang lots of  the kind of fly traps you bait with tuna and keep the visible poop picked up daily. 

Thanks! I'm making a trip to Walmart this evening for fly traps. I've been using the sticky tape ones and I think because the flies are hanging out so low to the ground that they are just pointless. I need something that will attract them.

 

[aggiemae]

I do have a bag of sweet PDZ but I was saving it for the poop board. I guess if I can't find anything else (thinking price and my location) then I'll give it a shot, thanks!

A bag or PDZ or stall dry will last a long time since you can sift the poop out of it with a cat litter scoop.

The poop board idea was pretty short lived here since it seemed to create more work in our small (8 hen) flock. In the end we used 1 and 1/2 half bags of stall dry on the coop floor and the remaining 1/2 bag, used to replace what went out with the poops, lasted for most of a year.