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    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

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    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
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

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    • #3
      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.

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      • #4
        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!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Littlefox2000 View Post
          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...

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          • #6
            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.
            photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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            • #7
              I wish I could like that twice Bill! I bet you stunk. It's really horrible, smelly, messy stuff.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                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.
                photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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