COCKROACHES IN THE COOP

[Cuban Longtails]

Never heard that... but if you use poison around your coop or house, you could accidentally end up poisoning your chickens if they ate the poisoned roches.

I get them occassionally, but when my chickens see them they don't last long. I always make sure to move my feeders and waterers around so the bugs can't hide and make a home under them.

 

[JudyMcKinn]

Thanks for your reply. I DO remember enough to know that it wasn't danger of the roach being poisoned--it was something--some sort of disease or condition that eating the roaches could cause.??

 

[rooster0209]

One good thing about North Dakota...it is too cold for Roaches. We don't have them here

 

[calee]

You mean people actually live in North Dakota?

 

[S0rcy]

Roaches could pass worms along if they have crawled through manure and the eggs stuck to their feet. My chickens cleaned up my barn and there were roaches in there however, I was happy to see them get eaten. Roaches can also be secondary hosts of nematode parasites.

 

[rooster0209]

You mean people actually live in North Dakota

The cold winters tend to keep the riff raff out

 

[JudyMcKinn]

Finally found one of the posts I was trying to find, about cockroaches:

Poultry Eye Worms

This worm is very harmful to poultry in the Southern States of the USA .Hawaii , Philippines and other subtropical areas. It is a small white worm that lodges in the corner of a chicken's eye. The eye becomes swollen, inflamed, and watery. Impairing the chickens vision. The eyelids may stick together and the eye may turn cloudy and eventually be destroyed. The chicken may try to scratch the eye to get rid of the irritation.
Eye worms have a indirect cycle. When the worm deposits the eggs in the eye, they pass into the tear duct, they are then swallowed by the chicken and expelled in droppings, and are eaten by the Surinam cockroaches. When the chicken eats the infective cockroach, worm larvae migrates up the esophagi to the mouth thru the tear duct, and into the eye. Wild birds are also infected, and they help spread the Eye Worm to chicken flocks. To control eye worm you must control the cockroaches around the chicken houses.


NOTE THESE BIRDS IF INFECTED AND HANDLED BY YOU CAN LEAVE THE INFECTION ON YOUR CLOTHING OR SHOES AND YOU WILL CARRY IT HOME, OR YOU WILL BRING IT HOME WITH INFECTED BIRDS.


Be sure and never wear the same shoes or clothing to the bird barn that you wear visiting a bird owners barns.
The eggs of the disease are in the fluid of the eye of the infected bird. The bird carries a high fever and the fancier needs to doctor it immediately. Use a medicine called VETRX and put it directly into the eye, around the eye, down the throat, and in the water. Do this three times the first week and twice the second week and should clear it up. Continue to put the VetRx on the eye for 4 weeks.

 

[BamaChicken]

I use Sevins dust and DE in my pens after dealing with eye worm and one of my show silkies losing and eye.

 

[chickonaroost]

I got on today to do a search hoping to find someone else with this problem....I'm so glad I did.
I thought I saw a little cockroach run out of one on the nesting boxes last month when I was cleaning it. I convinced myself it wasn't a roach, since that just grosses me out completely.
I went out today and moved their feeder tray, and OHHHHHH atleast ten giant, brown, icky, creepy roaches scattered out.
My question is: How will my chickens will eat them into extinction if they hide under the coop and only come out at night? I also have several inches of straw on the coop floor (which is boards with cockroach-sized spaces in between). Should I take all the straw out??
The coop is about 50 yards from my house and if my husband finds out we have cockroaches in the coop, I fear my chicks will be history and the coop will get burned down!!
Help!!

 

[chickonaroost]

Hoping for an answer before this gets buried by other posts...