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23 Feb ’12
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My yard is infested with fleas. We have two dogs and 4 hens on about a half acre in the middle of the city in North Texas. I never had a problem all summer, but in the last month they've gotten out of control. Its fall here and its been raining every week so maybe that's what brought them?
I dunno. We tried diatomacious earth but it didn't make a dent. Then it rained again. Now I'm noticing thousands of fleas congregating in our window sills. We can't even open them anymore or fleas will poor in the house.
The guy at the farm store has some poison for us to use. He says that'll take care of it, but we let our chickens free range in our yard all day. I don't want to lay down poison all over the yard and then eat my chicken eggs.
Anyone have any thoughts on how to fix this without pesticide? Is it even possible?
23 Feb ’12
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Also, it's going to freeze in the next couple of days. It won't be a real hard freeze, maybe get into the 20s for 5 hours, then in the 30s the next night. I don't know if there's anything I can do in conjunction with the freeze or if they'll even die in that weather.
3 Nov ’12
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Not sure if this will help. Might be too small-scale for what you need
23 Feb ’12
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That does help a bit, but I don't know if it's enough. It might just be too much at this point. We're overrun by fleas. I think it must be the weather that brought them all out. I've never seen this many fleas in any yard in my life.
15 Feb ’12
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jeez, that stinks, outside of pesticide, the only thing I know of is DE, but they like warm, moist ground outside of the direct sun, maybe just hit the heavily shaded areas mid day?
23 Feb ’12
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That's the thing, our yard is all warm moist and shady right now. It's almost entirely covered in pecan trees. The only place not shaded is the front yard and the garden. Its kind of a flea paradise back there. Plus, the morning dew screws up the DE each day. our DE bill would be insane, not to mention the time we'd spend. I'm just praying they die in the frost in the next couple of days
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