Should I mosquito proof my new coop?

[Turkeyrangler]

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Yea, I felt sorry for my girls and boys as well. To have to sleep all night with mosquitoes biting the CRAP out of you and you can't swat them away. Blood drips down from the combs and wattles and you can't do anything.

Where did you get your mosquito screening? Do you have any pics? I need to get started like this weekend on mine coops. Did I say, I HATE MOSQUITOES!!!!

Regular window screen works great. You can use either metal or fabric. I used fabric type under hardware clothe on all my windows in my coop and it keeps them out really well. Northern Minnesota is as bad any anywhere in the US as far as mosquitoes go. You buy it by the roll at any hardware store.

 

[elmo]

Where did you get your mosquito screening? Do you have any pics? I need to get started like this weekend on mine coops. Did I say, I HATE MOSQUITOES!!!!

I had some leftover from screening in our breezeway, but you can pick up a small roll at places like Lowe's or Home Depot. It's very easy to install, just cut to size and staple to your vent and/or window frames.

You can't really see the screening in the pictures I have posted on my page. Was there something in particular you were wondering about? I stapled the screen to the wood frame first, then put the hardware cloth on over that.​

 

[j_morgan76]

Thanks for all you help. I did add porch screen under the wire.

 

[wonderpup]

wow, I never once thought about this but I sure am now! I will be sending the husband to lowes asap to get 'skeeter" netting of some sort to put over the hardware cloth on our coop. It just never entered my head that they would bother the birds but of course they bother everything. I HATE them too!!!! We live near a little wet land area so we have tons of them. I try and do everything I can to make our yard as unattractive as possible but of course there is only so much you can do and it won't get rid of them.

Thanks to the OP for bringing this up. The weather has just started in the last two weeks to warm up in my part of Fla so they've been coming out I notice. Ugh, it's even been humid this weekend

 

[kuntrygirl]

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If you can post pics, I'm sure we would love to see it.

 

[johny]

I briefly worried about it when I got my chicks last summer. Within a few minutes of letting them loose in the brooder area a mosquito flew in. One chick, just a day old, jumped several inch and caught and ate it. And that's the way it's been ever since.

We have tons of mosquitos and the chickens nail them all if they fly into the run or coop.

 

[perchie.girl]

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LOL that works when they are awake and locked and loaded.... I think the main concern is when they are sleeping. After seeing the Chicken Pox pix I would be doing screening too if we had mosquitos like Florida has.

By the way I keep stock tanks for the Goats and Horse and Keep Gold fish out there year round. Never have to feed them either. The gold fish eat mosquito larvae and graze on any algae too.