Cedar chicken coop made in wisconsin? any one buy one of these??

[janinepeters]

I've read here on BYC that cedar chips are not good for chickens (they could eat them and apparently the oil on them is poison). What about cedar wood siding? I'd guess that the chicks would ingest so little, even if they peck and scratch at the walls, that it wouldn't be a problem. However, my guess isn't worth anything, so I hope someone who actually knows what they're talking about will chip in.

Yes, I would agree and would not hesitate to use a cedar coop. Once the wood off gases, exposure to fumes is almost nothing. Cedar shavings might be a bit more risky than shavings of other wood, because chickens raise so much dust, which they can inhale.

I just read a ridiculous review on amazon for a cedar chicken coop, where reviewer claims it will kill chickens. They quoted a long list of studies, but I looked them in primary journals, and found that all studies of the impact of cedar on animals involved one of the following: keeping animals on cedar sawdust, feeding the animals concentrated cedar oils, or exposing them to artificially high concentrations of cedar fumes (by placing a plastic container over the animals living on cedar shavings). None of them mimicked the conditions of keeping chickens in a normally ventilated cedar coop.