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By Sharron from South Australia
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11/02/2010
Get a thing of poultry dust from the garden store, and a container of baking soda. keep the shakers where you keep your cleaning supplies near the bin. Every time you put the droppings in the bag, sprinkle the top with some baking soda (buy generic). Then sprinkle the top of that with a sprinkle of the poultry dust. You can also use Sevin dust but it's not very good for the environment. Poultry Lice and Garden dust is available at most feedstores. Its ingredient is permethrin. You might also find permethrin dusts at the garden store.
The baking soda will dehydrate and deoderize, the poultry dust will kill any larvae if they hatch.
I live in the south, and we have chickens, and cats, and all sorts of other creatures. Flies seek out moist places to hatch their larvae and are a serious problem. That is how we keep everything tidy and larvae (and thus blowfly) free around here! :)
Take care of the larvae, and you won't have to try to trap blowflies.
By
11/02/2010
I am not sure what blowflies are but maybe using two bags would help. I have heard putting a half cup of ammonia in a garbage can will deter flies and wildlife.
By
11/02/2010
What about one of those fecal waste disposal units they sell through pet catalogs? You only have to dig one hole and insert the unit. You then drop in the waste and put chemicals on top to rapidly break it down. I have never tried one, but maybe someone who has can let us know if they work.
I need ideas for getting rid of blowflies in the outer open area where my 4 Australops chickens are. Any suggestions?
By Bev M.
By Litter Gitter
01/17/2012
Take a milk jug and cut a small upside down V about 2/3 way up on the jug. Press it into the jug just a little leaving space enough for the fly to enter the jug. Put about 2 cups of apple juice in the jug and put the cap on.
Hang the jug. After the apple juice gets to smelling strong, it will attract the flies. They will go into the jug and can't find their way out. Eventually they fall into the apple juice and drown.
Yesterday evening I entered my bathroom, I had been invaded with blowflies. I could not see a source for entry into the bathroom, nor a source for attracting them. Any ideas on how to deal with this?
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