Cockroaches!!!!

[Godsgrl]

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Oh no, that is what dustpans are for. Or shovels.

Edited to add...go out to the coop, and grab a hen. Carry her in, set her within chicken viewing distance of the maimed roach. She'll thank you for her snack.

 

[ChooksChick]

ALAN B . :

YOU Chicken obssesed Girls are just not thinking ! ! ! . If you will allow your Chickens to free range , They will kill every Cockroach !!! And Especially Guinea Hens will do the same !!! The key word is free range , .............. ALAN B .

But you can't free range your chickens IN your house...once they're in, they don't go back out...

I use DE all over my house, puffed into cracks, all around the foundation, in the basement, all over any exposed rafters and places they use for getting around.

I have a phobia about them because they were so plentiful and big in the Section 8 housing I grew up in that theyd just smile and wave when you turned the light on (not run) and they'd rearrange the furniture at night just to get at us...


We also use that paste you get in a big syringe (made by Combat, I think) in closed Jello boxes with a hole cut for them to get in- make the Jello (yum!) and then tape the box closed with the paste inside and an EWWWW! door for the EWWWW!s to get inside- that way the paste is not dangerous to any pets.


My butt is clenched and my toes curled now, just thinking about them....​

 

[desertgirl]

I use the DE liberally, then the chicks eat their little corpses. It's kind of like killing two...bugs...with one stone (roach control + deworming).

We also have a soaker hose around a couple of our trees, with straw over that. At night we lay boards down, and in the morning when we let the flock out they run over to the boards and cluck impatiently for us to pick up the boards so they can feast.

I started early this season, and haven't seen one roach inside the house.

Love them chickens!!!!

 

[Eggs4Sale]

ALAN B . :

YOU Chicken obssesed Girls are just not thinking ! ! ! . If you will allow your Chickens to free range , They will kill every Cockroach !!! And Especially Guinea Hens will do the same !!! The key word is free range , .............. ALAN B .

I admit that when I had more than 20 chickens free-ranging in my yard, we didn't have any roaches at all. But we also didn't have any lawn any more, and we had rogue chickens laying huge piles of eggs under the house. Every once in a while, a chicken would walk out followed by 20 chicks. But we had to stop that, because I like lawn. We now have 8 free-ranger hens, 4 free-ranging ducks, and 2 free-ranging baby turkeys. But they don't do the damage that the 20plus chickens did.​

 

[Whispering Winds]

My daughter and her husband got them in our rent house because goofy sil, after I TOLD him not too, went to the apartment house next door and brought home furniture that the evicted tenants left . . .so you know what was burrowing down in the cushions . . .we did bomb, but that didn't work completely so read where powdered sugar and borax mixed together and set out in cupcake papers would do the trick, and i tell you we found a lot of dead ones, because they eat it, go back to the nest, die and the others eat that dead one, and so on and so on. Bombing three weeks in a row, and don't be stingy with them works pretty good . . .and i don't think its as toxic as the stuff the professionals use. I got mine at DG and they took out a majority of them, and then keeping the powdered sugar and borax out did the rest. Good luck, they are so dang nasty . . . they carry more disease than most things put together.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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The first year I lived here, we paid a company $45 to come out once a month. My concern at the time was the spiders (Daddy-long-legs) and flying things. Well, the bug guy was scared of spiders. When I pointed up and said "Why don't you spray it?", he said "They JUMP when you spray them. EWWWWWWW." And he walked off. The flying things never got killed because they were gnats and not inclined to walking across the perimeter of doom. The only one having contact with the perimeter of doom was me and my little one. More than 5 months after I discontinued the service, I would still get burning skin reactions from the carpet around the base of the beds. I steam-cleaned several times and got rid of the stuff finally. I have embraced my Daddy-long-legs, and they get rid of the little flying things. HOWEVER, if one of these roaches actually touches me, I will have an exterminator out here in the middle of the night.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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Do you think just doing the cupcake thing without the bug bomb thing would work? I'm going to do a perimeter of borax/DE (haven't decided which yet) but the cupcake idea is nice. I just couldn't do the bug bomb thing unless we became really infested.

BTW, I'd like to point out that the first time I noticed we had a problem was within a month of accepting an entertainment center from a friend who didn't need it any longer. Shortly afterward, I took my kids to his kid's birthday party. While I'm sitting in their living room, this cockroach is sitting on the wall 3 feet away from me. I had never in my life seen a cockroach so big and so unafraid. Look at your keyboard: It was from the 'a' to the 'g' key. LEFT of the 'a' to the right of the 'g', to be exact. And it just stayed there for like an HOUR. I of course moved across the room, watching the thing the whole time. Guy finally walked by, saw it and smacked it with something, and walked off. He missed.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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Where do you get Roach Pruf? I've never seen it?
If i clean up all the food, isn't it true that they'll just eat other things? I've heard they can eat carpeting and glue and all kinds of inedible things. But true, I do need to clean up that recliner. I'm just not sure how!

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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But you can't free range your chickens IN your house...once they're in, they don't go back out...

I use DE all over my house, puffed into cracks, all around the foundation, in the basement, all over any exposed rafters and places they use for getting around.

I have a phobia about them because they were so plentiful and big in the Section 8 housing I grew up in that theyd just smile and wave when you turned the light on (not run) and they'd rearrange the furniture at night just to get at us...


We also use that paste you get in a big syringe (made by Combat, I think) in closed Jello boxes with a hole cut for them to get in- make the Jello (yum!) and then tape the box closed with the paste inside and an EWWWW! door for the EWWWW!s to get inside- that way the paste is not dangerous to any pets.


My butt is clenched and my toes curled now, just thinking about them....

Please tell me where to get the paste. I'm going to try that. I can leave some of those in places where the kids can't get to.

Ditto on the butt clenched, toes curled! It's hard to get to sleep when you're like that.

 

[phoenixmama]

Get a cat or two. This is the only reason to keep a cat, if you ask me. They are the best in house cockroach and scorpion hunters. They are up at night when the bugs are, and they will kill the suckers. The boric acid and DE works, but it won't kill them instantly, and it has to stay dry to do the job. I could never use the stuff in the house, because I vacuum too frequently for it to be feasible.