Type of wood to use for chicken run?

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Meloout831

Meloout831

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I wanted to build a chicken run and use T-posts, but need some wood posts to make a door.

Does anyone use treated garden timber for posts? These chickens are for meat and eggs. Does treated wood hurt birds and humans? Also, would it be a good idea to paint the posts? Sorry for the dumb questions.
 
We used pressure treated lumber and no paint. Paint wouldn't really hold on the pressure treated and peeling paint would just be something the chicks peck on non-stop.
 
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So it won't hurt people or the chickens? Do you eat your chickens?

Thanks for the reply.
 
I used T-posts too, but for the gate I used a premade chain link fence gate. I'd be leery of using pressure treated wood around anything I'd eat because of the chemicals it's treated with. Your'e not even supposed to burn it because of the fumes.
 
I think using pressure treated posts would be fine. They changed what they use to pressure treat them a few years ago. They are supposed to be much safer now. Either way the chickens likely won't be eating or licking the fence posts.
 
The funny thing is that if you Google info on it, it seems most of the info you find is on the BYC forum!!
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So it won't hurt people or the chickens? Do you eat your chickens?

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not a chemist, but I don't think it will hurt anything. They have drastically changed pressure treated a number of years ago to make it "safe". I've never seen my chickens licking, eating or pecking at the wood. The ladder in the run is not pressure treated and neither is their roost.

I feel it's the only thing that will hold up to the elements unless you want to replace rotted wood constantly.

Here's my run:

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