Effectvie product to control cockroach population, specially surinam cockroach.

[Luckybaby]

More than 1.5 month ago, I saw a lot of eye worms on both eyes of my free range chicken. Two to three months before that, I didn't see any eye worms, but maybe only a few are in there, so it takes a long time to see them near the nitrating membrane and conjunctival sac, unless I lift it. Few days before and on the day I put something on their eyes intended to kill chicken eye worms, I saw few to several eye worms on most chickens, and cloudy white pus came out on all of their eyes after I put it. I even saw eye worms on my 6 week old chicken(about 3 weeks ago) that is free range for only about 3 weeks. I am confident, that if I free range my chickens, all of them will have eye worms. On February this year, I thought one of my chicken have eye worms, since I saw yellow solid pus. I used a paper towel and placed it on the outside of her eye and move it towards the opposite side of the third eyelid to take it out. Today, I still think that it was aspergillosis and I doubt that it was a pus caused by eye worms since I didn't see anything that look like that, on my other chickens that definitely have eye worms for at least 1 month, even though there might be one worm that came out of her eyes. I already took out an ideal breeding ground of cockroaches on their cage, since last week. I tried to take that out about 4 months ago, but my dad insist to leave it in there. Last week, I definitely saw a lot of surinam cockroach in there, and the chickens can eat them, but not all since they can't fit in there. Definitely, they get more eye worms, because my dad insisted to leave it in there, and maybe the first of my chickens infected with eye worms got it from there.

Although I didn't find any evidence that chicken eye worms cause permanent damage to their eyes, I found evidence, that one worm, that is smaller in relative proportion to the human eye, than chicken eye worms relative proportion to the chicken's eye, causes permanent eye damage in a specific(maybe few years) amount of time while living and eating a part of the human eye. I already spend at least 48 hours trying to kill the eye worms of my chickens since about 3 weeks ago. It takes a long time, since they resist, and I have to take out the pus(maybe worm case and other stuff) coming out of their eyes. My dad likes to put dead leaves on the top of the soil of his plants, so that the soil will be damp for a longer period of time. Good for his plants, but also a good place for surinam cockroaches to live. There are also other damp areas in our backyard where they live, and I can't take them out by myself. Also, there are a lot of rocks and few leaves(from the mango tree above their cage) in their cage. They can hide in there during the night, and on the early morning hours, the chickens will eat them, if they find them. Yesterday afternoon, I saw one of my chickens trying to eat a snail in the chicken's cage, and I wonder how it get in there since they usually come out at night. I throw away the snail on the back of the house, so that it can still live. I really can't take all of the leaves out 24/7. What are some effective and cheap products(if there is at least one available), that can make cockroaches go away, or kill cockroach( something that doesn't require people to be in there when they are in there so that people can kill them, like a spray)? I also don't want something that super glue them, since that I don't want other life forms to die, such as lizards.

 

[Cinco pollos]

I don't know what eye worms are, but I do know I'm going to have nightmares tonight.

 

[fat marans]

Are you comfortable telling us what region (or at least climate) you live in?

Surinams are not the worst pest roaches due to their environment preferences. Maybe convince dad to replace leaflitter with some sort of other plant-helping mechanism that doesn't provide insect habitat to at least somewhat lessen the problem?

I would discourage the use of even "natural" pesticides harmless to chickens, as they can wreak havoc on "beneficial" and harmless insects, which would probably affect your yard's balance.

 

[FrankHomestead]

OK, IDK what eye worms are but I certainly know what cockroaches are and luckily have not lived with them since I lived in FL! My husband is roachaphobic and knows of this foam chemical to rid of them..I will ask him what it's called. But I take it these eye worms are like baby cockroaches???

 

[fat marans]

are like baby cockroaches???

No, the worms are not young roaches. Young roaches simply look like small versions of old roaches. Wikipedia says that the roaches transmit the worms the same way mosquitoes transmit malaria and other diseases.

In fact, I know people that keep surinams as pets, and I imagine they would make good chicken food if captive-bred as feeders (so that they are parasite and pesticide free). Also, they seem to be mostly greenhouse roaches and probably would have difficulty surviving in most houses, so don't be too terrified.

Also, please read my post above. Yes, pesticides usually work, but the one you are referring to is probably also a chickenicide. I was doing research on surinams, went to terminix, and saw a drain fly labeled as "clothes moth". I think such careless mistakes from such a famous and big company are more terrifying than any cockroaches, parasites or no parasites. It suggests that they prefer quantity (of customers) over quality.