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Well I have cleaned out there inside pens a few times already... Both times I have fumed the pens... After airing out for a few hrs.. I have scrubbed everything down to remove trace... All has been good for a week then the flies come back... I have come to the conclusion they are coming in with the hay... Nothing seems to work keeping them in check.. I have electronic zappers, fly tape, fly traps and now trying fly bait(poison ) on shelves thru out the pens... Which isn't helping since the flies seem to stay in the hay until they are disturbed.....and I'm not talking a few.. I'm talking a few hundred flies... They are driving me and the torts crazy...
So here is my thought.. Buy some food quality Diatomaceous earth and sprinkle all over the hay...in hopes that the flies hiding within the hay will be exposed and die...
I see no side effects to the torts...and might actually be beneficial if they have and parasitic load... But would like thoughts and opinions before I order it..
Thanks in advance ...
So here is my thought.. Buy some food quality Diatomaceous earth and sprinkle all over the hay...in hopes that the flies hiding within the hay will be exposed and die...
I see no side effects to the torts...and might actually be beneficial if they have and parasitic load... But would like thoughts and opinions before I order it..
Thanks in advance ...