Roach infestation in coop

[SeaAngler]

My chicken coop is infested with roaches. Is there any chicken safe roach repellent?

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Diatomaceous Earth; Borax and sugar; get a duck.....

 

[raingarden]

What harm could roaches possibly do in a chicken coop? The birds love them and will keep their numbers in check.

 

[SeaAngler]

What harm could roaches possibly do in a chicken coop? The birds love them and will keep their numbers in check.

They are poisoned roaches the neighbors fumigated and I'm worried they'll get sick. And I'm afraid of roaches even though I have literally no reason to and at night there everywhere and it's hard to go in there.

 

[SandyRiverChick]

If you're not opposed to DE, it'd be worth a try. Google it.... Also do you think they have a nest in your place? Roaches gross me out too. There is a Clove Oil, Cottonseed Oil product called BugMD that might work, I've never tried it.

 

[SeaAngler]

If you're not opposed to DE, it'd be worth a try. Google it.... Also do you think they have a nest in your place? Roaches gross me out too. There is a Clove Oil, Cottonseed Oil product called BugMD that might work, I've never tried it.

I did put some DE I'm their coop beddind

 

[Eggstaticmom]

Curious how this goes - DE has been extremely ineffective for Ants and spiders for me. Last night I saw roaches every where - I don’t know if my chicks will eat them since they only come out at night. It was creepy - roaches just running through the grass

 

[BarnyardChaos]

DE should be effective on roaches. I swear by it in the house for roaches and silverfish, and I use it in the coop to (hopefully) control mites and lice.

Reminds me of the creepiest thing I ever saw. Central Oklahoma, in wheat country. One summer day I came home to find our house completely COVERED in little brown bugs. This white house appeared brown! It was a moving mass - they covered all the windows, siding, gutters..... I found a path of them about 2' wide coming from the road and up our driveway, across the lawn, to our house. The mass migration were traveling on the shoulder down the side of the road from somewhere. After an hour or so, they were all gone. Vanished. I was told they were a kind of wheat bug, and likely had been disturbed by a harvest in progress. They were moving to better digs. Thank goodness they didn't find my house to their liking!

 

[SeaAngler]

DE should be effective on roaches. I swear by it in the house for roaches and silverfish, and I use it in the coop to (hopefully) control mites and lice.

Reminds me of the creepiest thing I ever saw. Central Oklahoma, in wheat country. One summer day I came home to find our house completely COVERED in little brown bugs. This white house appeared brown! It was a moving mass - they covered all the windows, siding, gutters..... I found a path of them about 2' wide coming from the road and up our driveway, across the lawn, to our house. The mass migration were traveling on the shoulder down the side of the road from somewhere. After an hour or so, they were all gone. Vanished. I was told they were a kind of wheat bug, and likely had been disturbed by a harvest in progress. They were moving to better digs. Thank goodness they didn't find my house to their liking!

It hasn't seemed to work on the coop