hutch care

[popnoodle 4]

any of you guys repainted/varnished hutches with ferrets in them? want to top up on the plywood at the back as its peeled a bit plus ive added a floor and legs that need protecting, but dont want to poison my ferrets in the first week lol

[seany 54]

I used cuprinol on the outside and a water based varnish on the inside but I'll be doing a square of none led based gloss in the bob corner soon its starting to need it

 

ATB Seany

[popnoodle 4]

after an hour of crying about the b and q website being useless then changing to google ive found that the cuprinol garden shades range is ok but people tend to mix linseed oil in because its not effective enough otherwise. another that people seem to think is brilliant is the cuprinol ducksback as its wax based so its a bit more waterproof. both say suitable for around pets in the info if you look on enough websites

 

thanks for the point in the right direction seany

[seany 54]

Your welcome popnoodle.I think as long as everything is dry you will be fine mate,but to be honest with you cuprinol's and the like are all the same in my opinion

they just stick a different label on them lol

 

ATB Seany

[The one 8,503]

Now summers here i pick a roasting day put the ferrets in a run in the garden and clean them out wash it down then paint it and let it dry totally before i put them back in .Never had a problem in twenty odd years

[f mac 40]

Now summers here i pick a roasting day put the ferrets in a run in the garden and clean them out wash it down then paint it and let it dry totally before i put them back in .Never had a problem in twenty odd years

summers here

[The one 8,503]

No fecking here its no well sunshine and showers is maybe a Scottish summer

[popnoodle 4]

spent all of today painting the hutch and trying to make a table for it to raise it off the floor, better not fall over when i finish tomorrow lol

 

the cuprinol stuff got lower fume emissions and is wax and water based so its less poisonous if the ferret or the neighbours kid chews on it

[dytkos 17,818]

any of you guys repainted/varnished hutches with ferrets in them? want to top up on the plywood at the back as its peeled a bit plus ive added a floor and legs that need protecting, but dont want to poison my ferrets in the first week lol

 

 

Thanks for the reminder.

 

I did one coat of varnish on the hutch floor and one coat of patio sealer on the concrete run base this morning,

(Got a spare hutch till it's dried) I'll do another coat tomorrow.

 

Cheers, D.

[ulverston moocher 60]

Last summer I put my ferrets in the run for 3 days and used bitchemine let it dry and banged back in no bother it will be getting same this year if we get a couple of nice days on the trott