How to kill mosquito larvae?

[SweetTea&Chicks]

Mosquito larvae has been in my chickens water recently. I changed it yesterday and when I came back out to put more water in, there were already mosquito larvae? Will mosquito dunks/bites work or will that be toxic to the chickens. What are other ways to kill them once and for all? Thanks!

 

[Hyper_Chicken05]

I’m pretty sure mosquito dunks are only toxic to mosquitos and similar insects. Except the toxins still might not be too good for them.

 

[pintail_drake2004]

those mosquito dunks are awesome. I treat my ponds, lagoon, and anything else that holds water with one. My chickens have been exposed to them from day one, and have not had any issues. We use them on my friends farm with his cattle as well, no issues.

 

[booth2010]

From what I have read Mosquito Dunks are safe to put in drinking troughs so I doubt they would be toxic to chickens. I did read that they are toxic to tadpoles and frogs though as well as mosquitos obviously.

 

[glib]

the old fashioned solution is vinegar in the water.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Those dunks contain Bacillus thuringienis israelensis (commonly called BT but designed for mosquito larva instead the more common BT for caterpillars). They are different BT's. They essentially work by giving the larva a belly ache so they quit eating and starve to dearth. They only work on mosquito larva and black fly larva. It is extremely selective and only affects them. It will not harm your chickens. It does not harm tadpoles or frogs either. I use it in a rain barrel I use to water my garden and tadpoles live in it.

I don't know what your waterer looks like. It takes about three days for those wigglers to mature into mosquitoes so I dump my water and refill it every two days as a minimum, more often if it gets dirty.

 

[roosterhavoc]

If you change the water every day with fresh water you won’t have to add anything.
Mosquito larvae take 1-2 days to develop from eggs.

 

[snow5164]

Ditto on the vinegar , apple cider or plain just a dash will discourage those little buggers :/

 

[Chickassan]

Summertime I use an old solar pond fountain to keep the mosquitos out. They won't lay in churning water at all. It wasn't expensive either.

 

[Chickassan]

Here this is it. https://www.amazon.com/Solar-Founta...ocphy=9010610&hvtargid=pla-515396111237&psc=1