Help with getting started...

[Littlefox2000]

Hi Everyone,

I am hoping for some help and advice. I've just managed to get a second-hand chicken house and run and also today I received my chicken keeping permission forms signed by the council.

Very excited, although I'm a way off being ready for getting any actual chickens. I was planning to get the hen house ready next, and thought I needed to creosote the inside to red-mite proof it...however having done some googling, I've discovered creosote is now banned. Is there some alternative product I can use instead??

All advice and help gratefully received,

LF

[Nicos]

Chickens eh?...brill!

Can't answer your question..but you might find this stickied thread useful for other 'stuff'....

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...oks_62408.html

[Scarlet]

You can get the unbanned stuff they sell in your local DIY store, called Creocote. ( not quite sure on the spelling!) it works just the same.

[Littlefox2000]

Thanks Nicos and Scarlet!! I think I was being a googling doofus re: creosote vs. creocote.

And that other thread re: other bits is very helpful!

[Scarlet]

Thanks Nicos and Scarlet!! I think I was being a googling doofus re: creosote vs. creocote.!

Actually you can still get creosote although it's for those in the trade only, carpenters, farmers etc. think they need a license. Nasty stuff though...

[Bill HH]

I spent the first 48 years of my life almost permanently covered in creosote. We sprayed all our poultry pens inside and out (inside meant you inhaled a lot). Just because a thousand test rats had one with a boil on its ass they banned the stuff. I am 65 now and I think all that creosote has preserved me.

[Scarlet]

I wish I could like that twice Bill! I bet you stunk. It's really horrible, smelly, messy stuff.

[Bill HH]

I wish I could like that twice Bill! I bet you stunk. It's really horrible, smelly, messy stuff.

It's funny but I love the smell of it. particularly when you put 100 point of lay pullets onto new wood shavings in a pen that's recently been sprayed. I used to get it on my hands and when I lit a fag some inevitably got on the cigarette, it gave it an extra "Bite" lol.

We had a lot of pens, mostly 30 foot x 10 foot and creosoted them every year, My dad built most of them in the 1940's and 50's, they just never rotted. I have been back and seen them recently. So that's 60 years. What did happen was that eventually some nails would rot and had to be re-done.