Is there a safe way of keeping mostiques off your chickens

[007Dawn]

Can we use the spray we use for ourselves? If not sprayed in the face?

Thank you.

 

[007Dawn]

I don't know if off spray would work or maybe we should remove the chicks and use a fogger?

Suggestions?

We have the blood suckers really bad.

 

[Uppity Peon]

Bug zappers work on mosquitos.

 

[007Dawn]

Any suggestions on a brand? We tried one that was suppose to be good for an acre about a year ago and it didn't seem to do much.

Not that I'm not willing to try again!

 

[Judy]

Bug zappers mostly kill other bugs, though they do kill some mosquitoes. I would be afraid to put a DEET product on chickens. I mostly use fans and let them catch them. I wish there were a good solution.

Some of the electronic devices are supposed to attract mosquitoes specifically. My son says the ones that run on propane and put off CO2 do pretty well. I've had good luck with Avon's SkinSoSoft bug spray on myself this year.

Maybe someone else will chime in here.

 

[Mahonri]

If I noticed that mosquitos were getting to my hens I'd be putting something with deet on them.

 

[thomast77]

You might try a google search for "Catnip Oil" It is 10 times more effective than Deet and safer too since it is all natural.

 

[RuffTuffCreampuff]

I would be careful using any type of oil extracts on birds, birds are very sensitive to things like that.....have you considered getting some ducks? Mine gobble them up.

Pam

 

[lovelychicken]

We live in front of a very very large duck pond and the mosquitos are horrible. The only thing that seemed to work was to light those doo dags that looks like a oven top heater. You can get them anywhere, just let the breeze carry it about four feet above the chickens. Be careful with those though cause the other day a piece fell off of it and onto the porch and burned a hole, put on tin foil or something similar.

 

[007Dawn]

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Thank you we will give this a try! I will have my husband build a "cage type thing for it" my chickens attach the strangest thing. It's almost like a game.

This morning they saw me and were coming up behind me, sneaky like. I held still to see what they were doing and all at one time they tried to use me as a perch. IT was really funny!