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Quote: For the most part, chicken are active during the day and sleep at night, and cockroaches sleep during the day and are active at night. My chickens usually seem completely uninterested in eating cockroaches, even when they are both active at the same time. A worm or a moth, now, and it...

Swollen watery eyes that they keep scratching at. I know; there is no way I can keep all bugs out of my coops; although I am slowly coving the wire with insect screening (mostly to try and limit mosquitoes, and thus fowl pox). It definitely seems to help with the larger bugs.

Quote: Please tell me that you did not just say "roach worms" Please. I am going to be in therapy before the week is up at this rate. Holy #@#%^% I'm dyyyyying. But cucumbers? really?????? No, not roach worms; EYE worms. Cockroaches are their usual vector. Cockroaches have the worms...

Quote: Careful on this one. Cedar shavings can kill birds. The volatile oils they give off are toxic to birds and shaving have a lot of surface area. You might get away with putting a small amount in your coop because you said that it was open air but be very careful. Living in Az, we also...

Quote: Ha! Ha! As soon as I saw the title, I knew the OP was from Florida and was seeing palmetto bugs. We call them sewer roaches here, and I am not positive that they are the same things, but both are DARN huge. I guess my advise would be to move the chickens and then thoroughly clean out...