Checklist

Fly monitoring

Fly breeding areas – manure

• Maternity stall bedding
• Calf pens and calf hutches
• Pens for sick animals
• In and under (wet) bedding in pens
• In pit under slotted floors
• Corners and edges of pens
• Accumulated manure under caged birds
• Accumulated manure under slats
• Under bedding of broiler houses
• Corners and edges of stalls
• Around manure piles / heaps and loading areas for spreaders
• Residues of manure left by scrapers
• Debris and floating solids in lagoons

 

Fly breeding/ feeding areas – feed

• Moist spilled feed around feed bins, feeding belts, troughs etc.
• Under railings and feeders
• Feed storage facilities
• Margins of feed bunkers / heaps / feed manger
• Margins of silage piles, horizontal silage silos
• Around and under concentrate silos
• Margins and beneath hay bales
• Wet litter under/around waterers

 

Other areas of fly agglomeration

• Under fences, rails and in corners of floats /outside pens
• Adjacent run off areas from outside pens
• Wet areas due to surface run off into houses
• In stanchion corners and gutters
• Broken eggs on floor, egg selection areas and in manure
• Dead animals (birds, piglets etc.)
• Spilled litter around houses /pens /pasture

 

 

Control measures

Manure

• Clean regularly and frequently bedding/pens / stanchions /gutters /outside pens
• Clean accumulated manure (poultry) in cool season and leave base of absorptive old manure
• Stock pens at appropriate density to compact manure
• Flush out pit frequently and keep pit well-flooded with water
• Move calf hutches /animals on pasture frequently
• Keep edges /margins of manure piles clean
• Keep lagoon free of debris and floating solids
• Don't overload lagoons /manure storage areas
• Provide sloped and curbed concrete areas for loading manure spreaders

 

Feed

• Remove feed spillage frequently at defined areas
• Enclose/ shelters over feed bunker
• Cover hay bales and store on sloped concrete or raised pallets
• Concrete aprons around feeders/waterers
• Prevent leaking waterers
• Cover and seal edges of silos

 

Others

• Provide sufficient ventilation and air flow for drying manure
• Concrete curbs under pen fences
• Bottom railings high enough to clean appropriately
• Scrape and grade pens frequently with contour for run off
• Provide runoff concrete channels and settling basins
• Cut adjacent vegetation around houses /pastures
• Screen milking parlours
• Remove and incinerate dead animals immediately
• Remove broken eggs

 

 

Chemical control

• Residual insecticides on adjacent vegetation an around building
• Apply larvicides to manure
• Fly bait stations (adulticides)
• Paint-on/misting for adult fly control