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I was wondering where they were all coming from.
So I put a empty Yankee Candle jar, bit of Vinegar in the bottom and cling film on the top with a little hole, I got some in like but some are still in the shed.
I've come to the conclusion that its the Pets at Home hay as when they wee on it it smell really bad so Ive order loads of Wilkinson's Hay and Timothy Hay.
Never getting hay from Pets at Home again
 
I had them flying around the bathroom yesterday.

The problem is with us, we have one of them small food recycle tubs and it seems to be encouraging them in even more. They are nowhere near the pigs, outside or inside, just the bathroom and kitchen.
 
Pepperdog said:
I had them flying around the bathroom yesterday.

The problem is with us, we have one of them small food recycle tubs and it seems to be encouraging them in even more. They are nowhere near the pigs, outside or inside, just the bathroom and kitchen.
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Awwww, we haven't got anything like that so I don't know where they are coming from, I can only think its the hay!
I even have the sticky thing for the flies in the shed where they are but they don't seem to be going on it
They don't harm piggie's do they?
 
no they are only interested in eating rotting vegitation. Where do you put the waste from your piggies - ie the uneaten veg and their dry food, it might be this and the warmth has made a delectable feast for them.
 
When i had bunnys as a child i kept then in hutches in a garden ahed i had trouble with flys and worried about flystrike. I then came across the fly catcher basically it is a roll of super sticky gloopy tape that * unravel and hang from the ceiling of your shed or on hooks around the shed, and the flys are attracted to it and get stuck to it and it kills them. They work amazingly well. I'm not sure where you could buy them from now though, maybe wilkinsons or a garden centre/diy store.. Or maybe even online.. Just keep your pets dry and clean as much as you possibly can and i too have found pets at home hay to get stinky ...
 
Pepperdog said:
no they are only interested in eating rotting vegitation. Where do you put the waste from your piggies - ie the uneaten veg and their dry food, it might be this and the warmth has made a delectable feast for them.
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It's in the bin in the house, the big bin is on the other side of the wall where the guinea pigs are tho
 
Lil-Ninnibig said:
When i had bunnys as a child i kept then in hutches in a garden ahed i had trouble with flys and worried about flystrike. I then came across the fly catcher basically it is a roll of super sticky gloopy tape that * unravel and hang from the ceiling of your shed or on hooks around the shed, and the flys are attracted to it and get stuck to it and it kills them. They work amazingly well. I'm not sure where you could buy them from now though, maybe wilkinsons or a garden centre/diy store.. Or maybe even online.. Just keep your pets dry and clean as much as you possibly can and i too have found pets at home hay to get stinky ...
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I have these in the shed for them, they have catched quite a few flies!
I also have a fly net on the front of the shed but I think they are getting through the vents on the shed.
I'm gunna stick to the Wilkinson's hay
 
I have used wilkos hay with no problems as well as the meadow stuff my friend gets from the pets wholesalers (have had a little bit of an issue but its hay so nothing unexpected from my whole hay experience :)) )

These fruit flies are tiny little things, one actually went up my nose last night :)>>>mallethead (did get it out again) and they are just annoying, they also dont tend to fly near flypaper. I wondered if they might have been around the bins and got a bit lost, its the perfect weather for them at the moment, warm and damp.
 
Pepperdog said:
I have used wilkos hay with no problems as well as the meadow stuff my friend gets from the pets wholesalers (have had a little bit of an issue but its hay so nothing unexpected from my whole hay experience :)) )

These fruit flies are tiny little things, one actually went up my nose last night :)>>>mallethead (did get it out again) and they are just annoying, they also dont tend to fly near flypaper. I wondered if they might have been around the bins and got a bit lost, its the perfect weather for them at the moment, warm and damp.
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I find the timothy hay good :)
Awww, I know they are stupid yeah maybe!
I was thinking that aswell with the weather
 
Drosophila melanogaster - I used to cover them at uni, I've always kinda found them cheeky and cute "). The adults are more interested in the rotting fruit because the larvae just LOVE the alcohol from the fermentation. I dont think the hay / grass is so much of an issue but any exposed fruit will certainly do the trick. It takes just one fly to lay some eggs and in approx. 8 days you've got yourself a brood! If there is anythink the guineas dont eat all of - i.e. fruit rinds or mini bits of apple and this gets squished down into the bedding then the flies will get right in there to start breaking down the fruit. If you clean out your bedding and larvae fall to the ground, they will still hatch if they manage to roll away.

It's tricky to clear them out, fly paper is probably the best (although I'm a bit obsessive about letting stuff live so I feel mean saying that..) but I would suggest supremely thorough clean out and check for uneaten fruit and veg before bed and remove from the shed/area you keep the guineas. Good luck!
 
I was in pets at home a few weeks back and was looking at their dried guinea pig treats in bags, and they had moths in every bag of a certain batch, my hubby told them and they removed them instantly, i have not seen any since but it goes to show it can happen, perhaps take the hay back and say there were flies int he bag, or coming from the bag for a refund?
 
I thanked that and realised that it made me sound a bit too excited to gain that knowledge hahaha :(|) .. consider it a like!
 
Dusty_bugs said:
Drosophila melanogaster - I used to cover them at uni, I've always kinda found them cheeky and cute "). The adults are more interested in the rotting fruit because the larvae just LOVE the alcohol from the fermentation. I dont think the hay / grass is so much of an issue but any exposed fruit will certainly do the trick. It takes just one fly to lay some eggs and in approx. 8 days you've got yourself a brood! If there is anythink the guineas dont eat all of - i.e. fruit rinds or mini bits of apple and this gets squished down into the bedding then the flies will get right in there to start breaking down the fruit. If you clean out your bedding and larvae fall to the ground, they will still hatch if they manage to roll away.

It's tricky to clear them out, fly paper is probably the best (although I'm a bit obsessive about letting stuff live so I feel mean saying that..) but I would suggest supremely thorough clean out and check for uneaten fruit and veg before bed and remove from the shed/area you keep the guineas. Good luck!
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Thanks!
I cleaned there beds out yesterday
Always take away food that they don't eat :)
I have 3 fly trap things, so fingers crossed they go away now
 
jammybaby said:
I was in pets at home a few weeks back and was looking at their dried guinea pig treats in bags, and they had moths in every bag of a certain batch, my hubby told them and they removed them instantly, i have not seen any since but it goes to show it can happen, perhaps take the hay back and say there were flies int he bag, or coming from the bag for a refund?
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Its really bad hay, I've done that before when it was like moist and it smelt really bad and they just gave me a new one!
Wasn't gunna give me one at first as they couldn't smell anything but my mum piped in and said what I said and they gave me one :)
 
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