Diesel fuel as tick and flea repellent

[AxelCoon]

Good evening again beautiful people; I was wondering: Back in my home country our old folks usually spray diesel fuel on the wooden walls of coops to repel parasytes and this is a very old tradition. Now, if you've seen my other thread about my new flock, you would have known that i now own 2 large separate flocks of chickens. As for the new flock (bought from my dead neighbors family), I had to build a new coop. I made it from wood. My chickens usually free roam around my huge orchard from about 6 AM to 7 PM. If I spray the wooden walls of the coop with diesel fuel, it usually impregnates into the wood before chickens come to sleep - would it be toxic for them? I've been doing this for my other flock which is almost 5 years old - but these new chickens seem to be much more frail than the latter.
Thanks a lot! Axel.

 

[TelfTheElf]

they should be fine

 

[aart]

I know it would repel me...and I'm known to be a pest.

I tend to not want such substances around my birds.

 

[Folly's place]

x2! It's toxic, and smells bad, and would not be good for your birds to inhale all night.
Try something else! Permethrin spray will do nicely out there, and dries with little or no odor.
Mary

 

[flyin-lowe]

Ive heard of people spraying wood with diesel but it was only as a wood preservative, not to keep the bugs away.... Either way I wouldn't consider housing birds anywhere near that stuff.

 

[aart]

Ive heard of people spraying wood with diesel but it was only as a wood preservative

Insect repellent too...oil, gas, diesel was used for years for this (and still is), around chickens too.

 

[AxelCoon]

I think creosote is the most toxic compound as it is used so soak railway track sleepers against rotting and bugs and some people use them to build coops!

 

[Folly's place]

I do miss creosote! Stinky and rotten as it was, it really worked as a wood preservative!
Mary

 

[dawg53]

x2! It's toxic, and smells bad, and would not be good for your birds to inhale all night.
Try something else! Permethrin spray will do nicely out there, and dries with little or no odor.
Mary

Permethrin 10% liquid DOES have an odor after properly mixed w/water and sprayed. I use it, and use fans to dry and ventilate afterwards.
The powder smell isnt strong at all.

 

[Shadrach]

Diesel fuel is carcinogenic!
If your coop is made of wood and you want to clear it of mites and parasites use a blow torch.