Homemade fly trap?

[AimsChickies]

I know i've read before about people making fly traps with I think it was vinegar and sugar. I would really like to make some if anyone happens to know the proportions. Thanks all!

 

[Dawn419]

Found a recipe for you in this thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=150282&p=8

Here are the original directions if you don't want to scroll down the other thread.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

JENSKI'S NON-STINKY FLY TRAP

- 2-liter bottle
- 1/3 c. sugar
- 1/4 c. vinegar
- water

Take a 2-liter bottle, cut off the top 1/3, and in the bottom section mix water filled to the bottom of the "ring" of nubs on the bottle with the sugar and vinegar. Invert the top and stuff it down into the bottom section, making a funnel that the flies go down into. (The spout of the bottle should be above the liquid, so the flies get trapped in the bottle and drown.)

It doesn't smell really nasty like the store-bought traps do, and it works really well! The vinegar keeps the honeybees from getting caught in the trap. Just don't leave where animals or people can knock them over.
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Hope this is some help!


Dawn​

 

[AimsChickies]

That is exactly what i was looking for! Thanks for your help!

 

[Chickenmaven]

I tried that last summer & it did not work

.


Back to TSC for the hanging thingees.

 

[PhlyinPheBee]

Today I watched my chickens chasing flies. Do they not keep them down? I was hoping they would. I do not want to have one of those stinky traps this year.

They share a yard with 3 rabbits and 4 toy poodles. I can scoop the poodles poop but it is not easy to do the rabbits and chickens.