Is it safe to creosote a chicken house ?

[veggiechicken]

I use the real deal, a farmer friend picked it up for me. I couldn't buy it myself. I use it inside and out, though I leave the coops empty for several days before they are back in use - it is nasty stuff. It's a horrible job though I use it every other year on my coops. I don't have much problem with redmite.

I use the real deal too - had it here for years. I spray it in the cracks with a garden sprayer with a lance. Means I don't have to get too close when I'm doing it.
Hoping that using it once very couple of years won't harm me

[bearded bloke]

Hoping that using it once very couple of years won't harm me

I dread to think how many miles of fencing I creosoted during my apprenticeship & that was when I smoked like a chimney, I'm still about to tell the tale

[Snadger]

I used to work in a coke works where you could fill as much as you liked from a tap!

You could also shovel bags full of sulphate of ammonia from underneath a rotted pipe!

As a young buck I got the job of painting a large shed with creosote. It had talen me 17 years to grow a decent tash and i burned a lump out of it when a wayward drop kissled it up. I had to shave it off and I was gutted!

I've still got three gallon stashed fro a rainy day though!

[Rob the Radish]

Sorry but the posters who believe creosote is banned and illegal to own are wrong, it can still be bought over the counter, but not by average joe public, I have an account with an agricultural merchants and I still buy the real stuff from them, I bought 15 gallon last week.
I would not recommend painting yourself with the stuff as it burns like hell, but I have been using it for well over 30 years now, we rarely suffer with mites or such like on the chooks,