Looking for chicken safe mosquito yard control

[Peep Peeper]

We live in MA and the land out behind our house is pretty damp which makes a perfect storm for an insane amount of Mosquitos. Before we had chickens we would spray the yard with fogger. One year we even split a mosquito control service with our neighbor. Both methods were really effective. Now that we have chickens I don't know if it's safe to use these methods. If not, what do you use that is effective in your buggy yards?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

This may not work for your situation but I route all my downspouts into a stream with a dam and water garden at the end and during wet weather I keep native minnows in it. They consume all the larvae. Then make sure all the other standing water is dumped.

 

[farrier!]

This may not work for your situation but I route all my downspouts into a stream with a dam and water garden at the end and during wet weather I keep native minnows in it. They consume all the larvae. Then make sure all the other standing water is dumped.

When we lived on high ground most of the standing water was in our water tanks. I would buy feeder goldfish and add them to the tanks. Our tanks were cleaned at least every three days and the goldfish thrown into a bucket. The initial die off was high but the hardy ones did very very well, grew to be about 6" and the mosquito magnet (me) could be out at the barn and not be carried away by those horrible blood suckers.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

When we lived on high ground most of the standing water was in our water tanks. I would buy feeder goldfish and add them to the tanks. Our tanks were cleaned at least every three days and the goldfish thrown into a bucket. The initial die off was high but the hardy ones did very very well, grew to be about 6" and the mosquito magnet (me) could be out at the barn and not be carried away by those horrible blood suckers.

Yeah, you're close to me. People invite me to garden parties to keep the mosquitos off of them.