How to Get Rid of Flies?

What do you guys do for the flies that chickens attract? We have a neighbor complaining of the flies as he has a pool. We have put out fly traps and try to spray out the coop regularly. What suggestions do you have? Is it even possible to get rid of them completely?

I find fly traps  to work well.  I have about 9 around my property.

A fan blowing away from the neighbors pool?

I have heard you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

This is an observation, not an answer.

The fly population this year is very much higher than normal. This has been confirmed by my neighbors and townsfolk I run into at the co-op. We expect them in spring and fall but they showed up in the spring and have not left.

What is you method of keeping chickens?
Are you observing higher than normal amount of flies?

There may not be a solution because of the cyclical nature of things, if that is what you are experiencing.

I use fly traps for mine, but I have a friend who put a few of the little trees brand air fresheners (like the ones that hang from the rear view mirror in your car) with the scent called "vanillorama". He swears that flies hate it and wont go any where near his coup.

A couple of female Muscovy? Venus' full name is Venus Fly Trap. She will gladly hoover any flies you send our way!
(Don't get a pair as they are serious about self-replicating... Venus is on eggs right now.)

Our friends in N. GA all report fly revolution this year. How to combat this insurrection? We try the Maggot Mosh Pit method, borrowed the idea from these very pages, andit seems to improve the situation somewhat.  
Small bucket fitted with hardware cloth bottom, fill halfway with various chook food items....preferably those leftovers that hid, forlorn, at the back of the fridge too long.... then let the flies take over.  

As the larva hatch and participate in the mosh pit, foul bucket loses all smell and chooks happily feast on their version of "manna from the heavens"
This has atmleast put a dent in the fly population

Is there anything that can be done to make it so the chickens are not attracting flies?   Paddock shift?

My impression has always been that chickens do a pretty good job of eating flies.  

Build dozens (hundreds) of bird houses. Or, as a shorter term solution, throw out heaps of bird feed for wild birds.

grow lots of plants that hummingbirds like

encourage spiders

frog and toad habitat