Help Please I Lost My Birds To Ants
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A farmer asks for help after losing chicks to soldier ants; the thread evolves into a detailed exchange of practical pest control methods involving engine oil, aspirin bait, and pesticides, alongside community sympathy.
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“I started a backyard poultry last christmas. I made some money not even to the breakeven point cos I lost some birds to hot temperature.”
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“Use black oil - you can dip the 4 legs of your cage (wood or iron) inside plastic bowl and apply black engine oil/condom engine oil.”
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“Get some tablets of aspirin may be 10 tabs, soak them in a 1 litre water.”
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This thread is a community discussion where a farmer reports losing birds to ants and receives practical advice on coop design, chemical treatments, and predator management. The conversation shifts from technical solutions to banter about forum trolls and personal farming experiences, with one user sharing a detailed story of using local fowl as security guards against ants and snakes.
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bird_mortalitybird_mortality
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citing_years_of_experiencenaming_farm_size_or_location
“Spray the external walls of your birds cage and external boundaries with snipper. Do the spraying of the external boundaries from time to time. If you know the hole from the ground where the ants are coming from. Pour snipper down the hole, this I did to get rid of them from my compound”
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“Lost 56 kit(rabbits) to same fire 🔥 ants”
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“So when those ants came and was biting them, it was the noise of the local fowl that attracted us and it's always at mid night”
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