Chicken coop arrived ,help is needed

[goddess]

Dear All,we have finally decided to go for a ready coop as we can't wait to alter the old stables (future project)i was reading the mite thread this lunch time and surprise surprise went to wilkos and bought ceroece to trat the coop.then rang the company to ask them wey]ther or not i need to treat it prior to assembly this weakend and they said it is already treated and that we don't need to treat it again! do i need to treat it or not?as i only have this weekend to do this, iam planning to go and collect chicken from pimlotts poultry near preston next weekend?the coop we bought is called hereford house from suffilk coops.Any advice welcome

[goddess]

Looks like mites scarred me enough to make so many spelling mistakes sorry

[yeti]

hi,i would go ahead and give it another treatment,it has a week to dry,just to be on the safe side,and give it a dusting of diatom powder as an extra precaution..

[goddess]

thanks but dusting of diatom where?iam a comlete begginner

[yeti]

hi, dust inside the house before you put the bedding in,as extra measure,i wage a war on mites of anykind!!!lol think im right in saying its a very fine particle powder , and the particles penetrate the hard shell of the mites and kills them..i do mine everytime i clean them out..after having a serious case of scaly leg mite on one of my cockerals..

[lettucegrow!]

Hi, goddess. Bet you're getting a bit excited about getting some girls .What are you going to get?
I would give it another coat, better safe than sorry and the Diatom can be sprinkled inside the coop- bedding and all- it wont harm the birds.

[Bramble-Poultry]

the company would have responded that it had been treated as they apply enough treatment to preserve the wood for a season or two. you are applying creocote not to preserve the wood, but to make the coop inhospitable to mite - major difference.

so both answers are right. also remember that it can take upto a week to get he creocote smell out of the wood before yo uput the birds in so if time is pushing, i would suggest put th birds in and then spray with mite shield or similar during the summer

[goddess]

Thanks for that.We are all very excited me more than the children!! we have been talking chicken for the last 2 weeks.If i coat it tomorrow will it be okay for next Saturday?we have booked on a beginners course at pimlotts poultry on March 20th and will be buying the chickens from them.We are going for miss pepperpot (the one that eglu stock)because it's a hybrid and supposed to be easy for beginners and lay up to 300 eggs per week.The coop will house up to 10 but i will probably get 4 only.I might end up giving in to pleas from children next week and get more,we will have to wait and see.

[yeti]

crikey!! thats one hell of a hybrid laying 300 eggs a week!!lolol

[goddess]

did i say week??that will be torture for the poor things.i meant year sorry

[yeti]

i thought it was quite funny,made me chuckle , an image of chicken trying to pop out 300 eggs in week!!!

[Glutton4...]

Darn it - there was I looking to get a couple of Pepperpots too! Good luck with it all - and remember;
You WILL get more - honest!

I started with 8 and now have 40!

[its hilly]

Dont forget, anyone not posting picis when their chooks arrive will be severely nagged....

[BUFFS]

i thought it was quite funny,made me chuckle , an image of chicken trying to pop out 300 eggs in week!!!

it would be like a rear facing machine gun/custard pie chucker.....duck

[Flummery]

it would be like a rear facing machine gun/custard pie chucker.....duck

And every time she bent over to peck ...