(use a combination of the following suggestions)
1 |
Remove
food sources (trash, piled feed, broken eggs and dead chickens)
and potential nesting sites (pieces of lumber, old equipment
and manure piles). |
2 |
Mow
or use herbicides to remove weeds and grass from around poultry
houses. |
3 |
Treat
indoor surfaces with a registered product if ants are nesting
inside poultry houses.
Note: Although
some products such as permethrin (Y-Tex® GardStar)
are registered specifically for control of fire ants in
poultry houses, other products such as cyfluthrin (Countdown®),
dichlorvos (Vapona® Concentrate
Insecticide), and lambda-cyhalothrin (Grenade® ER
Premise Insecticide) are more generally registered for "crawling
pests" including ants. Read the poultry sections
of labels for precautions. Do not allow insecticides to
come into contact with feed or water supplies. |
4 |
If
fire ants are foraging inside the poultry house from ant mounds
located outdoors, spray a barrier around the outside of the
building with products registered for that site (e.g., lambda-cyhalothrin). |
5 |
On
grounds surrounding the buildings, use the Two
step Method. Conventionally formulated bait products such
as abamectin (Clinch®)
, fenoxycarb (Logic®)
, hydramethylnon (Amdro®)
, pyriproxyfen (Distance®)
or s-methoprene (Extinguish®)
can be broadcast outside the poultry house, but not where
chickens might come into contact with bait. |
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