My chickens must be miserble.

[AAJ]

I have silkie chickens and since its been hot lately I have had a terrible problem with the fly's. How do I get rid of the flies. Also how do I keep my chickens cool during the summer. They are silkies, which get hot in the summer. Please reply.

 

[leadwolf1]

I used fans, ice water and ice bottles that I froze and put out for them to lie against. I also made yogurt fruit blocks that I would give them. You can also freeze watermelon and other fruits for them to eat.

 

[RedDrgn]

Get rid of what the flies are eating/breeding on and you'll get rid of the flies.

 

[mstricer]

You are not going to get rid of the flies. Hang a fly strip up that helps.

 

[Florida_country_boy]

Spinkle DE or Sevin on the coop floor or where ever the flies are hanging out, and get a fly trap. Since flys are bad with every livestock, the feed store has some pretty nice fly traps.

 

[carolinasculpture]

Hi! If they flies are in the coop, hang copious amounts of those pine tree vanilla scented car fresheners. We did this is a horse barn as a joke and all the flies left! Have been using the trick ever since! (that is if you can stand the ultra-vanilla smell!)

To keep the chickens cool, I keep ice in their water (freeze 2 ltr soda bottles). I use the 5 gallon buckets with the nipples. Even her is SC it keeps the water surprisingly cool all day! Also, I run a sprinkler into a baby pool for a little bit. The chickens stand in the cool water.

Good luck!