Just found cockroaches the size of hamsters in my coop. HELLLPPP!!!!!

[guesswhatchickenbutt]

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I can't believe I went without my computer (well internet access - grrrrrr) for a few days and I missed this thread and gems like this.

shudder.

I'll admit to having a hard time reading everyone's awesome responses because I get a serious case of the heebie-jeebies.

And I am going to award this the GROSSEST THREAD EVER AWARD

And I'm going to leave you with a true story... I wouldn't have done this but someone decided to post a picture of one of those big madagascar roaches and I saw it and now I won't sleep tonight so this is my relatiation.

When I was in high school (eons ago) my BFF's friend (a girl I was also aquaintances with) missed a day of school. When we found out why it changed my life. She was sleeping - she woke up when she felt something in her ear. She tried to get it out, but she only pulled off two back legs. Turns out a big roach had crawled into her ear when she was asleep and had become stuck deep in her ear canal. Apparently roaches legs are constructed in such a way that they cannot back up so it just kept squirming forward and forward and forward. She wigged out so much that her mom drove her to the ER at like 2 a.m. and they had to sedate her because she was in full out Linda Blair freak-out mode and then pull the thing out of her ear and squish it. I literally spent my junior and senior years of HS sleeping with cotton in my ears, thankyouverymuch.

So for any of you who don't think roaches are a big deal, please refer back to that story. Shudder.

And if you are surprised that my chickens don't eat them - I found them under the bedding when I was cleaning out the coop, and like a previous poster said, roaches are hidden during the day and active at night, which is the opposite of my chickens.

And finally - thank you to all of you who get wigged out by them too - misery loves company LOL

And thank you to all of you who had suggestions as to how to exterminate the buggers. I'm still afraid to use poison incase a drugged roach wanders lazily out in the daytime and one of my girls eats him and dies...

I'm going to go back to shuddering................and put some cotton in my ears.

 

[chickenjones]

OMG why did I read this thread?! AACK!

I HATE ROACHES!!

 

[AngelzFyre]

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x 10kajillion!!!!!!!!

I'll never fall asleep now and I want to go out and look in the coops to see if there are any there...but am too freaked out to do it!

 

[laughingdog]

ok first i breed giant roaches, so know about them.. second, roaches dont carry worms except the kind that only effect pest insect species. third, just use some vinager, as it kills the baacteria that roaches need to digest food, but tends to be benificial to chickens, except possibly poos. im guessing you have big black roaches (look up blaberous species to find out which kind). the roaches love to live in coops and eat bird poop. most types are actually benificial unless german roaches.

 

[ll]

Get a few geckos living in your coop - it really works.
I knew a local pet store that had a couple of Tokay Geckos living loose,
they took care of all the roaches quite well.

 

[laughingdog]

neat idea above, i used to sell anoles when lived in ghetto up north, to get rid of roaches.. odd, but worked, and was perfect as was constantly hot for them to live in walls etc. never aquired any polydactle geckos like i wanted to try, but thought would be fun to try.

 

[dawg53]

Quote:
I can't believe I went without my computer (well internet access - grrrrrr) for a few days and I missed this thread and gems like this.

shudder.

I'll admit to having a hard time reading everyone's awesome responses because I get a serious case of the heebie-jeebies.

And I am going to award this the GROSSEST THREAD EVER AWARD

And I'm going to leave you with a true story... I wouldn't have done this but someone decided to post a picture of one of those big madagascar roaches and I saw it and now I won't sleep tonight so this is my relatiation.

When I was in high school (eons ago) my BFF's friend (a girl I was also aquaintances with) missed a day of school. When we found out why it changed my life. She was sleeping - she woke up when she felt something in her ear. She tried to get it out, but she only pulled off two back legs. Turns out a big roach had crawled into her ear when she was asleep and had become stuck deep in her ear canal. Apparently roaches legs are constructed in such a way that they cannot back up so it just kept squirming forward and forward and forward. She wigged out so much that her mom drove her to the ER at like 2 a.m. and they had to sedate her because she was in full out Linda Blair freak-out mode and then pull the thing out of her ear and squish it. I literally spent my junior and senior years of HS sleeping with cotton in my ears, thankyouverymuch.

So for any of you who don't think roaches are a big deal, please refer back to that story. Shudder.

And if you are surprised that my chickens don't eat them - I found them under the bedding when I was cleaning out the coop, and like a previous poster said, roaches are hidden during the day and active at night, which is the opposite of my chickens.

And finally - thank you to all of you who get wigged out by them too - misery loves company LOL

And thank you to all of you who had suggestions as to how to exterminate the buggers. I'm still afraid to use poison incase a drugged roach wanders lazily out in the daytime and one of my girls eats him and dies...

I'm going to go back to shuddering................and put some cotton in my ears.

Hahahahaha! I thought your were going to say that she had an earwig in her ear! LOL

 

[birdmomma]

But isn't there a chance the chicks would eat the geckos?

 

[Fundychic]

Cool! Don't have a picture of one of these roaches? I live in cold Canada and have never seen a big roach.

Hope you get rid of the problem though.

 

[MSH]

did read all the replies but they are palmetto bugs at least thats what we call them here ( I swear giant roaches ) and they are fast one chased me down my hall way once when I lived in some apartments ! IDK what you could use to kill them other than we used sugar mixedd with borax and that got rid of them they like dampness now I'm gonna read the replies lol hope you got rid of them since this was posted a while back !