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glorious10:
good afternoon my people,

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. early this year I purchased 10 chicks. I raised them in cage. unfortunately I lost 4 to ants. the cage was mounted by soldier ant (yoruba's call them Erun)

after waking up that morning I quickly went to check them because it rained over night. those ant move in squad. I have to kill them with petrol.

please how can i avoid this in future. because I'm planning to start in large quantity. we moving to our farm land soon and its surrounded with bushes

Fatbam005:
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RealityKings1:
Make I join

Fatbam005:
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glorious10:
good afternoon my people,

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. early this year I purchased 10 chicks. I raised them in cage. unfortunately I lost 4 to ants. the cage was mounted by soldier ant (yoruba's call them Erun)

after waking up that morning I quickly went to check them because it rained over night. those ant move in squad. I have to kill them with petrol.

please how can i avoid this in future. because I'm planning to start in large quantity. we moving to our farm land soon and its surrounded with bushes

Caaz:
I rear birds too but strictly for Consumption purpose,make sure your environment is clean,

You could put soil dust on the cage floor and sweep every 2 days.
Sorry for your loss.

PJtech:
I don forget wetin i wan talk o.. Someone should remind me

MrBONE2:

Esude007:
Hmmm
Soldier ants eh

Use this method fess

Get some tablets of aspirin may be 10 tabs, soak them in a 1 litre water.

Get Caton of biscuits, those ones that smell very nice.

Soak the caton with the aspirin water then place the wet Caton in the sun to dry.

After dey thing done dry, place am for strategic points near your poultry.

Dem go invade am definitely.

They will eat and take some home to their queen. There is definitely a big ant mould somewhere around your location.

The queen will eat from the poisoned Caton definitely.

Once the queen dies, no more production.

They die a natural death and their population will reduce.

Or


U can use a pesticide that contains Lambda cyhalotrin.

It will only reduce the workers. More workers will be born and trust me... Dem go fight u

Fatbam005:
op be care of tracing into hills and bushes mk hunter no become hunted

TenQ:
Sugar+borax syrup
Mix 1 part borax with 3 parts sugar.
OR
peanut butter+borax
Mix 1 tablespoon peanut butter with 1 teaspoon borax.
OR
Sugar, Honey, and Borax
Mix 6 parts sugar, 1 part honey, 1 part borax, and 3 parts water

These mixes can be effective for killing the entire colony, as ants carry the bait back to the queen and larvae.

Repeat every two weeks until you don't see any trace of the ants

Smithwilliams826:
😂 u don't know what u are saying.
Production will stop for a little while and continue by a new replacement. How?
Once a queen dies, the new queen is be specially selected and feed. Once she gets to a certain stage, production continues.

Caaz:
I rear birds too but strictly for Consumption purpose,make sure your environment is clean,

You could put soil dust on the cage floor and sweep every 2 days.
Sorry for your loss.

glorious10:
good afternoon my people,

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. early this year I purchased 10 chicks. I raised them in cage. unfortunately I lost 4 to ants. the cage was mounted by soldier ant (yoruba's call them Erun)

after waking up that morning I quickly went to check them because it rained over night. those ant move in squad. I have to kill them with petrol.

please how can i avoid this in future. because I'm planning to start in large quantity. we moving to our farm land soon and its surrounded with bushes

Esude007:
Hmmm
Soldier ants eh

Use this method fess

Get some tablets of aspirin may be 10 tabs, soak them in a 1 litre water.

Get Caton of biscuits, those ones that smell very nice.

Soak the caton with the aspirin water then place the wet Caton in the sun to dry.

After dey thing done dry, place am for strategic points near your poultry.

Dem go invade am definitely.

They will eat and take some home to their queen. There is definitely a big ant mould somewhere around your location.

The queen will eat from the poisoned Caton definitely.

Once the queen dies, no more production.

They die a natural death and their population will reduce.

Or


U can use a pesticide that contains Lambda cyhalotrin.

It will only reduce the workers. More workers will be born and trust me... Dem go fight u

Authoreety:
Eeyaaa... Those ants are cultists

sylve11:
It's called sawdust, not soil dust.

Caaz:
Thank you oniovo, correction taken.

Mariangeles:
Ahnie, come back to the food thread.

If anyone trolls you again, don't respond to them.
Just block their generation.
In fact, those you don't like, start blocking them already.

That block feature is the best thing to happen to nairaland yet.

Caaz:
Lolxxx


You must have really missed my meals
Marrie mi baby.

Mariangeles:
Your meals contribute in keeping the thread alive and going.

glorious10:
good afternoon my people,

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. early this year I purchased 10 chicks. I raised them in cage. unfortunately I lost 4 to ants. the cage was mounted by soldier ant (yoruba's call them Erun)

after waking up that morning I quickly went to check them because it rained over night. those ant move in squad. I have to kill them with petrol.

please how can i avoid this in future. because I'm planning to start in large quantity. we moving to our farm land soon and its surrounded with bushes

frozen70:
Its just unfortunate that there is little or nothing you can do

I have such experience in my cage though the birds were for family consumption

In the cage, the first layer was for Agric bird,

the second layer was for native fowl that had her new chicks, they are smarter and can fight any threat to their chicks

and the third layer was for turkeys

So why i added local fowl is because they are smart and can escalate any danger by making noise to alert you

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

Even when snake entered the cage, it was the local fowl that drew our attention

The Agric was just there doing nothing as they are not smart by nature

The turkey was also making noise as it was responding to the noise from the native fowl noise

But I discovered that, the bush next to me was where they came from, so for me to survive, I have to clear that bush which I was not ready for