Terminix Full Flush?

Chelsea304 · Sep 14, 2018

Hey everyone -

A little bit of back story! I moved into an apartment with my husband and Fids. Ever since we moved in, the apartment has been infested with roaches. We did not know that prior to moving in or we would have selected a different apartment complex. Terminix has come out to spray but assured us it was a pet safe formula (including birds from what they have told us. The fids have had no adverse reactions to this.)
Terminix has come out again and told us they want to do a full flush of the apartment and everybody (birds included) need to be out of the apartment for 4 hours during this time.

My question is has anyone else had this done? I know birds have a very sensitive respiratory system so i'm worried they will need to be out of the house for longer.

Their cages are also infested with roaches (they are living inside of the wheels and hollow bars), should we just clean these with vinegar or leave them inside for the flushing and then clean them? I'm unsure what to do. My gut instinct is to take the cages out of the apartment and take them to a car wash and use the pressure washer style sprayer to clean out the bars and take off the wheels of the cages and clean those instead of leaving them in for the flushing.

Thank you for reading and for any replies. I just want to make sure my Fids are safe and I also want to live roach free (the bugs are just so overwhelming)

ChristaNL · Sep 14, 2018

Roaches get everywhere, so I would leave the cages to decom in the appartment and clean them after, like you wanted (before putting the birds back in).
Then you will be sure not a single egg etc. will be left and viable.

Just get some nice roomy benches (al solid metal or even plastic dogcrates if you can get away with them -gnawwise- , just beware of the finish) for the fids in the meantime ...

Best of luck in getting de-roached!

Chelsea304 · Sep 14, 2018

Thank you so much this is so helpful! Im looking forward to be del-roached! It's been a year living with them trying to get rid of them on our own has been awful

LordTriggs · Sep 17, 2018

gotta be honest I've never heard of a pet safe fumigation. Kinda eliminates the point if the formula isn't deadly. What I would do is before fumigating get any food and drinks both for yourself and the parrots out of the place, better yet try to let food supplies (for yourself) run low so you have less to move around, then on the day stay out of the place for a full day yourself with the birds somewhere like a friend's or pet friendly hotel or wherever is a safe place for them to be, the next day go back in without the birds, open up all the windows to allow the place to vent air throughout and then do a deep clean of the place, making sure to spray some F10 around the entire place to make sure all the poison is gone, put all the clothes there through a cycle in the washing machine and lastly pull furniture from their normal position to try and pick up any dead roaches lying on the ground to eliminate as much of the poison as possible from the immediate place. Oh if you have carpet anywhere see if you can borrow or rent a carpet shampooer and give that a go round as carpet is a prime location for old food scraps and poison to linger (you'd be surprised how much dirt those shampooers pick up too)

The poison mainly works by infecting the food gathering roaches and then when they go back to the nest and die the others in the nest eat that body and then spread the poison throughout the whole nest. once the initial 'bombing' is done in the apartment there is no need to keep it around where you are. After the second night the place should be okay for the parrots to return, just remember if you smell the chemicals then it isn't safe for the parrots. Fingers crossed all goes well.

Chelsea304 · Sep 17, 2018

LordTriggs said:
gotta be honest I've never heard of a pet safe fumigation. Kinda eliminates the point if the formula isn't deadly. What I would do is before fumigating get any food and drinks both for yourself and the parrots out of the place, better yet try to let food supplies (for yourself) run low so you have less to move around, then on the day stay out of the place for a full day yourself with the birds somewhere like a friend's or pet friendly hotel or wherever is a safe place for them to be, the next day go back in without the birds, open up all the windows to allow the place to vent air throughout and then do a deep clean of the place, making sure to spray some F10 around the entire place to make sure all the poison is gone, put all the clothes there through a cycle in the washing machine and lastly pull furniture from their normal position to try and pick up any dead roaches lying on the ground to eliminate as much of the poison as possible from the immediate place. Oh if you have carpet anywhere see if you can borrow or rent a carpet shampooer and give that a go round as carpet is a prime location for old food scraps and poison to linger (you'd be surprised how much dirt those shampooers pick up too)

The poison mainly works by infecting the food gathering roaches and then when they go back to the nest and die the others in the nest eat that body and then spread the poison throughout the whole nest. once the initial 'bombing' is done in the apartment there is no need to keep it around where you are. After the second night the place should be okay for the parrots to return, just remember if you smell the chemicals then it isn't safe for the parrots. Fingers crossed all goes well.

Thank you! This is excellent advice! I was planning on keeping the birds out of the home for a full 24 hours but might do longer as needed.

I will look up F10 and stock up on that.

I definitely won't bring the birds back in if I smell poison.

I'm considering buying a couple small cages just for a day or two for them to live in.

Thanks again!

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