Cockroach induced death and prevention?

[Max0815]

I got 2 new peachick some time ago. One of the peachicks about a month old. Two days ago, I observed it eating some nymph cockroaches that ran out of a bucket I was trying to move, and 4 hours later it was struggling to hold onto life(irregular breathing via mouth, weak irregular heartbeat, dialatated pupils, minimal response to stimuli[pain, sound, vision] despite my attempts to save it(force feeding it 100 ml each of 3% concentrated Benadryl, 3% concentrated amoxicillin, and a 5% activated charcoal solution). I finally decided after those grueling hours that recovery would be utterly impossible, and I put it out of its misery via quick painless death ;-;

I know cockroaches are not poisonous. So this brings me a few questions. Did the cockroaches cause the quick reaction in my peachick? What diseases that the cockroach can cause such quick death? How can I prevent this from happening again(I’m shutting my other peachick in the house for now until I can find a solution)?

What possible treatments or solution can I help save the peachick? We’re my treatments correct? What can I do in the future?

Thanks in advance.
Max0815

 

[FortCluck]

Do you use any chemicals for bugs at your house? Sounds to me like the cockroach had poison on it or in it from either your property or a neighbor's property.

If it was poison there's not much that you can do unless you induce vomiting and even then it can fail.

I use zero bug chemicals on my property because the chickens and ducks eat every bug in sight.

 

[KsKingBee]

I would assume that the cockroach(s) may have gone down the trachea and caused an air blockage. No poison used for bugs or rodents would act that fast. We use both rodent and fly poisons. We have fly poison in the hatchery and have free-range hens and chicks come in and eat the dead flies with no adverse problems.

 

[Max0815]

@FortCluck I haven't sprayed anything in my yard except for soap-alchohol water as a homemade pesticide for my garden, so I don't think poison from pesticides that I use is the cause. Out of curiosity, how do I induce vomiting? I've tried to "reverse squeeze" the crop of the peachick but it didn't work.

@KsKingBee I think cockroach poison may be stronger or something than the fly poison. I've heard that cockroaches are really hardy, and the poison used to kill them would be likewise most potent. I don't use poison, but I am not sure if my neighbors don't. However, they were baby cockroaches, literally white nymphs, not more that a couple days old. Should they contain that much poison?

Furthermore, if the cockroaches went down the peachick's trachea, how would I save it? Would there be a way? I observed the following behaviors in my peachick: rapid shakes in the head and dragging not beak on the ground while stepping backwards. As a side note, I've fed medium sized cabbage pieces to a peachick I had a few years ago, and I guess it choked on it and died, because it had the same behaviors and this one. Would this be the case?