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

[RoseMarie1]

I was just reading this thread when my cat silently walked up to my desk chair and tapped me with her paw. I screamed and jumped up without first pushing my chair back from the desk, hit my thighs on the desk, and then I fell to the floor. I think I heard my cat laugh.

LOL that's something I would do! lol I hope I don't wake up anyone with my laughing!

 

[galanie]

LOL this old thread is so entertaining! Nice to see it come up again!

 

[laughingdog]

My OEGB BB red hen brinfs me spiders with bodies as big as her head, and worms as thick as large garter snakes, but only half to fourth as long, then she beats them. to death at my feet and acts as asking for praises, that she gets from my spider hating close friend and roomate, after that is she screams. and yells for their deaths.

 

[seminolewind]

These roaches down here are gross. I have one coop with no roaches, and the other coop got so bad I could not go in there at night. They covered everything. I got the Home Defense and sprayed along the edges and the walls, not all over, but enough. Not one bug left. None. I have a cabinet outside that was full of roach poop, sprayed that, was good for a Year. Sprayed again yesterday.

Without that spray, I would lose my mind.

 

[MMChiefGreg]

I'm in Southeast Georgia (at the Fl boarder by Jax) we have them here also! I have found that cucumber peels are keeping them out of our coop (open like yours) & if the chickens eat the peels it wont hurt them. Got the info from an old copy of the Farmers Almanac. Hope this helps.

 

[nayeli]

LMAO!

I have been sitting here reading this old thread for the last thirty minutes! I love the first post about the "fight over the pitchfork" and especially thought the post about the sun spider and the chicks devouring it was priceless!

Anyway do most chickens/ducks eat roaches?

 

[wren]

My little five pound yorkie loves being outside. I always worry that he will find a snake or something that will hurt him he's so little! I was out gardening, looked over at him in the grass and he was sticking his nose on something I couldn't see, darting back and going back in again. I thought, " Snake! And oh God he's gonna get bit!" Grabbed a hoe and ran over there yelling for him to come to mommie! I get there all pumped up ready to fight and it's a cockroach. Perched on the tip of a blade of grass waving his antenna very threateningly! My yorkie was so scared! I laughed my butt off till I cried! So much for me saving my baby and my mighty little hunter!

 

[laughingdog]

Ducks and more wildish game type chickens love roaches. problem is most roaches active at night when chickens are helpless to dosomething about trouble of them. Muscovy and supposedly runner ducks (if isn't straight and looks bottled its not a pure runner/bottle neck/penguin duck). Are best bug hunters at night and general as even especially love flies and mosquito that many types of poultry won't. cucumber slices kill roaches by messing up nervous systems and starve and kill gut bacteria that lets them eat. for best ways to get rid of roaches go on roach pet forums of which there are two main ones i used to be on. "Allpet roaches" and "the roach forum"

 

[kpgoldstar]

Palmetto bugs? no, here in New Orleans we call them "Creole Butterflies" it just sounds nicer (tourist town you know= no bad roach talk.)

My family has been here in town from the 1720's and we do know a lot about these creatures. A great non-chemical way to get the population down ( ya ain't never gonna get rid of them) is to make "roach traps" and place them outdoors near your coop.

Items needed:

A large can, or gallon glass jar.

Shorting ( solid or spray type)

Sweet soda- any flavor

Spray or wipe the inside of your can or jar with the shorting then pour a inch or two of soda in the bottom. The "Creole Butterflies/Palmetto Bugs" will crawl in and drown
when they can't climb out.

Now for the icky part- don't empty the trap, the smell of the roaches will attract more and more to their deaths.

If it rains cover the trap, you will need to clean it out every week 1/2 or so, as you will have dozens and dozens of dead ones by then.
The traps will over time lower your yard infestations.

Good Luck

How do they crawl up the sides of a glass gallon jar?

 

[laughingdog]

Well i cannot find any bugs on ground at all now, so scovy and layer hybrid ducks are doing their jobs. though pack rats were stealing some eggs i think before scovy males found their nest and started tearing them apart and swallowing the med sized young whole. they work dark or day actively hunting down the roaches and everything else that's not a bird they can choke down or tear apart, a lot faster than traps cats etc inside can.