My Guinea fowl decided they were
chickens, and with no prompting from me, started roosting in the
chicken coop. The only problem is their
poop. I have a poo board that I was scraping into a
bucket for
compost once a week or so. But Guinea poop is different from chicken. I NEVER saw fly larva in my chicken droppings, but the Guinea poop is FULL of crawling larva in no time.
So now I feel like I have to do something different, but not sure what. Larva will hatch in 5 days from what I read, and I would prefer to kill or use them in that stage before they take flight.
Some potential ideas:
- Scrape more often, put a lid on my bucket and leave it in the sun to hopefully heat kill the larvae
- Sprinkle a bit of lime or
diatomaceous earth on the board every few days (not sure how this would affect my compost)
- Utilize the live larvae somehow, just not sure how good it is to encourage my birds to peck through their own waste
- ANY other ideas welcome!