Using Creosote

[cemetary]

What's the thoughts on using creosote in the hut on several things.

 

If you use it, what you doing with it, floor, boxes, beer mats etc.

[Kyleakin Lofts]

I use it on my floors and bottom of nestboxes, but I also use grills. Once it is dry I sprinkle some woodchip on the floors.

[Goodview]

Dip beer mat in it ...let it dry overnight ...put it under nestbowls....nae wee beasties

[Grizzlecock]

Quite hard to get real creosote nowadays

[Roland]

Brilliant. Give it two weeks or so to dry … else birds will be marked.

New a very good farmer, who had his loft in one of his fields. He was a very, very good fancier. Every two years he gave a couple of labourers, I believe, A week-end chore of cleansing his lofts to the bone. Droppings went on gardens etc. Then the lofts were splashed and every crank and nookie filled with Creosote. Left a while to dry out and then birds put back to breed before racing. Never had any ailments etc. Birds always a picture to look at, and results were top notch.

[aluvhibs]

Nestboxes an floors in stock loft done end of December, race loft 3 weeks before pairing