Thinking of geting an eglu cube - any opinions?

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

I currently have a big wooden hen house and its the biggest pain in the backside to get clean. Its got a pull out floor and I still find it really difficult with that. Plus its riddled with mite that I can't get rid of. Its only a year old but I've hated it since I got it.

So I'm thinking of gettign an eglu - are they easier to clean out? Do you still get mites? Any downsides to them? I currently have 7 chickens so sizewise should it be OK?

tia.

I've got a Cube (see profile).

It's a doddle to clean, especially now they've introduced plastic roosting bars as well. Jet wash - job done.

I douse mite powder around but haven't actually seen any - I use straw and Easibed in the poop trays, so the powder is just in case there's owt living in that.

With 7 birds, if you don't already have a run, you'll need to get the Cube with the run extension.

I love mine but Omlet products are the Marmite of the poultry world!

oooooooooh Cubes..... mmmmmm!!!!!

I've got an eglu but am already having cube dreams...!

doodle, you've also got my fave look and cook cookbook (from my childhood, which left home with me and I still use!)

Aye, it was me mother's cook book. I had to post a picture for another Mumsnetter who was trying to remember/find out what her Mum's old cookbook was called (her Mum had died).

I've got a 20ftx10ft run, so just need the cube.

I second everything doodle says
They're lush!

I wanna Eglu Cube!! They're so bloody expensive though! My chooks would love one of those - it would be like Claridges to them.

At the moment they are in the Bangkok Hilton.

I have a cube too and I love it.
I took it apart today for a spring clean. It was so nice knowing there was nothing horrible lurking.

Doodle we keep meeting. are you on omlet?

They are the bees knees!

DH was very dubious about me spending sooo much on a chicken house until it arrived. He said that he then realised why they are sooo blardy expensive - they are the porsche of the chicken pen world so says he.
Phew said me.

oooooh bronze, I do lurve those cubes! I'm on omlet - still learning who's who though.

I'm glad I spent money on my eglu rather than on a wooden house - but am going to have to start a cube fund (I'm really keen on getting blue egg hens).

bronze, you probably have similar Mumsnet tastes to mine - swoop on, find the OK threads, deposit summat and get on with the rest of your day. Chicken Keepers is the only topic area I really spend quality time on!

Read Omlet website and forums but don't ever post. Prefer it here to be honest. Am very loyal to MN

I have a pink cube and 7 chooks, laying 7 eggs a day at the moment. I love my chickens, and surprisingly DS and DH loved looking after them when I was away, and let them free range everywhere!

Can someone tell me what the height is under the cube? Am wondering if my feed hopper will fit under it, I suspect it won't as its a big hopper.

At the moment its under my huge wooden hen house. If I can't keep it under the cube then what can I do to keep the pellets dry?

Hi, The height of the cube is 120cm, the cube itself is 70cm long, so tha gap must be 50cm.

i have my cube outside of my large pen and store two recycling boxes under it which I tip the poo tray into for a local smallholder.

I store my grain in galvanised dustbins.

Gewt one, they are very very fab. easy to clean, if you dont get round to cleaning for a few days they still come up sparkling with a quick hose down.
I have a cube and 6 chooks, wanting to get a couple more in the spring.
I love it, I love my chooks and all things chook related.

Thanks, 50cm should be high enough. Just need to sell my wooden hen house now!

hate to piss on the parade like, but i have found mites in my cube before now

but i think that may have occured after one of the hens went broody in the nest box and i left her there with some ebay eggs to hatch, none of which did, but during that time i couldnt really clean the cube...

re a place to keep hopper and food dry, i have an outdoor galvanised hopper, but also underneath the open cube run i have a feed thing hanging down and a leftover piece of corrugated roofing stuff sitting on top. works.

and theyve gone now...?
I've found with wooden housing if it gets mites I have to get rid. with the eglu and cube I can jetwash it and sprinkle it with a bit of antimite and its fine. I think thats a real bonus

well i did jetwash and dust it, but they were still there... i moved them into a new shed and the cube was unoccupied for a few months, that cleared it. currently it lives out next to the shed and 2 of my 18 birds choose to sleep in it, and several of them lay in the nest box

i thought about getting the steam cleaner out to see if that would get rid of them... but in the end i was doing up the shed anyway, so i didnt bother.