I often put fly strips up in the rabbitry; they are most effective hung no more than waist height in there. At one time, I had some young chickens that were loose on the floor. Two of the young birds were Silkie cockerels. One day, while I watched, the boys got into a sparring match. As one bird leapt up to launch an attack on the other, he connected with one of the dangling fly strips. He stuck to it. Fight over! There's nothing like winding up hanging from a sticky tape to wreck a guy's macho image! I rescued him before he got even more tangled, but he lost a few feathers and gained a few sticky flies in the process.Sour, you don't learn, hey?
We had an interesting fly strip experience once. Also quite funny, though I wasn't laughing at the time. We put the used strips in the bin, put the bag out... I had 2 chicks running around that I was raising and they somehow discovered the fly strip. Yum, sticky fliesOne day we're sitting watching TV when we heard a chick scream. Not a nice sound! We have two doors leading outside, almost opposite each other and my DH and I each ran for a door, very nearly into each other! While we were trying to side-step each other the chick came storming inside, still screaming, with his sibling following close behind, looking worried. The screamer somehow managed to get the fly strip stuck under his wing and panicked when he couldn't get it off.
Nearly gave me a bleeding heart attack!
Needless to say we were careful disposing of the strips after that incident!
