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Lucas2019

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I don’t know what else to do with cockroaches in my house and we are trying everything but since we can use chemicals because of my bird I have found them twice on my Lucas cage and I have to wake him up twice and he gets so scare that he starts flapping his wings when he sees them inside that’s when I know they are in there . My house is clean but I guess is infested with them and I am worried about my Lucas any suggestion to stop them from getting in to Lucas house ?
 

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you can try using gel poison! thats how I kill bugs in the house, but I make sure none of the birds eat it obviously because its poisonous duh. there's probably other efficient ways, but this is how I do it! works for a while but they always end up coming back.. maybe you could put him in a relative or friends house until the situation is sorted out?
 

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you can try using gel poison! thats how I kill bugs in the house, but I make sure none of the birds eat it obviously because its poisonous duh. there's probably other efficient ways, but this is how I do it! works for a while but they always end up coming back.. maybe you could put him in a relative or friends house until the situation is sorted out?
Thanks and no unfortunately I don’t have any one that can take care of my baby :(
 

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Do you have Ecogel drops where you are? It is a syringe full of paste, and you put dots under furniture and in cracks where the roaches go.
I used to be manager for a few businesses here and the one on the beach front had a cellar and when I was left in charge, there were thousands of roaches. It was awful working there. A friend of mine told me about the drops so we went there, put the drops everywhere and cleaned out the cellar. We did it often and within weeks the number greatly reduced, we hardly saw them after that, we had to out the drops down frequently because roaches were rife in that area so we had to keep on top of it.
 

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We had an issue with bugs in our house a few years ago, and were worried about toxic chemicals, so we used diatomaceous earth. We put it along the baseboards of the rooms we were seeing most of the bugs in and it helped with the bug problem pretty fast. After a little bit we vacuumed it up. And I found online that as long as you get food grade diatomaceous earth it should be nontoxic. Correct me if I'm wrong anyone, but I think it is bird safe. So you could possibly try that?
 

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I use Avian Insect Liquidator
 

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The only thing I've read about DE is that it is better if applied in a slurry around birds. I think it's an inhalation risk?
Yes it can definitely be an inhalation risk, for pets and people
 

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Do you have Ecogel drops where you are? It is a syringe full of paste, and you put dots under furniture and in cracks where the roaches go.
I used to be manager for a few businesses here and the one on the beach front had a cellar and when I was left in charge, there were thousands of roaches. It was awful working there. A friend of mine told me about the drops so we went there, put the drops everywhere and cleaned out the cellar. We did it often and within weeks the number greatly reduced, we hardly saw them after that, we had to out the drops down frequently because roaches were rife in that area so we had to keep on top of it.
I am here in Los Angeles California , that’s the name of it ? And I don’t have any one to take care Lucas so do you think by taking him to room enough ? I will put it overnight . Yeah is awful they keep crawling to his cage and I have to wake him on the middle of the night is sad
 

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The drops and the station are the same, thje different is the station has the plastic around the bait. So I would try those plastic ones if you can find them and put them around Lucas cage at night.
The plastic huts are better so you don´t have to worry about where to put the drops and if you forget about them.
 

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I have used bait stations like the “combat” ones Mizzely posted. They work very fast and quite well. The roaches take some of the bait back to their nest and kill more than just themselves with the poison in the baits.
I have never noticed a smell from them but I also did not deliberately smell them.
 

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I would not use diatomaceous earth. It's dangerous if inhaled. I'd try the bait traps.
 

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The roaches take some of the bait back to their nest and kill more than just themselves with the poison in the baits.
Do poisoned cockroaches have a similar impact up the food chain as poisoned rodents do?
 

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Do poisoned cockroaches have a similar impact up the food chain as poisoned rodents do?
I guess they would if they were eaten but given where they nest I would not think there would be much of an impact as there’s not usually a heap of creatures living in our houses. I haven’t researched it to be honest.
 

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The drops and the station are the same, thje different is the station has the plastic around the bait. So I would try those plastic ones if you can find them and put them around Lucas cage at night.
The plastic huts are better so you don´t have to worry about where to put the drops and if you forget about them.
So they should fine for my bird it won’t have any chemicals coming out ? Sorry I have never used this before
 
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