Posted by Ken Macfarlane on June 11, 2013 at 18:00:09 from (207.231.231.69):
A great neighbour of ours, who we hay their land runs a large campground and have been overrun with house flies. They hired someone to look into it and they believe a larger farmer up the road who spreads chicken manure from layer barns twice a year is the source of larvae and the flies. There are also frequently dead chickens etc in the manure.
My sister has a few horses, sheep and chickens next to the campground but the consultant looked into it and said it wasn't the main source.
The neighbour is now organizing some kind of petition to request bigger farmer compost his manure under tarp for a period of time before spreading to kill the larvae or break the fly cycle. Despite haying their land and having a good relationship with them I'm reluctant to sign anything as I know the other farmer is going to blame my sisters farm as soon as he's asked to do something.
I've started reading up on filth flies and it is common house flies that are so terrible in our area (I live here too). You can't leave a window open in a car 5 minutes without 100 or more flies entering. From what I read they hatch in manure that is 50%-70% moisture content then going looking for richer food so they can mate then lay more eggs in rotting material.
The manure pile at my sisters place is dry shavings bedded horse manure, the chickens (20 or so) are on shavings and sand, and the sheep are mostly on pasture or if they go inside, bedded on deep pack manure.
I don't find the flies any worse at her farm than a mile away. I do find there seems to be a hatch after mowing a hay field, say a day or two after baling but this doesn't seem to line up with anything I've read.
Anyone have any experience? Trying to stay good neighbours, help with this fly issue and retain use of fields!
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