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That is similar to what I use: Boric acid and sugar, dissolved in warm water. Lots of sugar, about a tablespoon on the boric acid. Pour into an old 20 ounce bottle full of cotton balls. Have tiny holes in the bottle, so the ants can crawl in and out. The cotton balls will keep it from pouring out. Throw it outside close to where they are coming in. Then the ants will carry the posioned sugar to the queen, and they'll die. You can put this bottle in the chicken coop. The chickens can't get to the posion. I kept them in the pen.
Or hubbo heard to sprinkle chewing tobacco on the nest. They will take it to the queen, and when she comes up to spit, step on her and kill her. The rest of the nest will die.
That is similar to what I use: Boric acid and sugar, dissolved in warm water. Lots of sugar, about a tablespoon on the boric acid. Pour into an old 20 ounce bottle full of cotton balls. Have tiny holes in the bottle, so the ants can crawl in and out. The cotton balls will keep it from pouring out. Throw it outside close to where they are coming in. Then the ants will carry the posioned sugar to the queen, and they'll die. You can put this bottle in the chicken coop. The chickens can't get to the posion. I kept them in the pen.
Or hubbo heard to sprinkle chewing tobacco on the nest. They will take it to the queen, and when she comes up to spit, step on her and kill her. The rest of the nest will die.
