Omlet Eglu Review

To make your decission a little easier, and to give you as much info as possible, I’ve collected a few snippets from Eglu review and user comments I’ve found online.

…I have an Eglu. I ummed and ahhed for weeks before getting one as I thought it was very expensive (£320). I looked at 6 x 4 sheds which are about £95 and considered converting a shed and building an attached run. In the end, I chose the Eglu as it came with a fox proof run and was maintenance free. It is twin walled which makes it warm in winter and cool in summer, it takes a few seconds to empty the contents of droppings tray into compost heap every morning and it all comes apart to be hosed down once a week. It will never need re-weather proofing and since it all comes apart for cleaning, there are no nooks for red mite to hide in. I too was dubious when I first saw the Eglu, but I can honestly say I think it’s money very well spent. It is also light enough for me to move around the garden without any help…
- Noozan

…we had 2 foxes which regularly sunbathed in our garden (broad daylight too) and we wanted peace of mind. it has been great but the problem is 2 chickens are never enough, so now we need more room to expand our poultry empire…
- Shona

…I did get my Eglu in the end last year and have not regretted one bit. My 2 chickens from Omlet the company that make the Eglu are lovely and give me an egg every day.
DEFRA have apparently said that should poultry need to be kept under cover then the winter shade over the run will be OK, so thats good news…
- bootman

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I, too, have been looking into purchasing an Eglu as well as getting a couple of Black Rocks. As I have quite a small, narrow garden, it seems ideal and the fact that it all comes apart and you can hose it down once a week and disinfect once a month rather than having to scrub and disinfect a wooden one more regularly in order to get rid of bugs, etc and repaint it every year. The Eglu is quite expensive, but I am sure worth the money. You can get them second hand on ebay, but, obviously, you will have to collect it. At the moment I am saving up for my Eglu in the hope I can buy one next spring, when, I presume, that is the best time to buy hens…
- tplatt
…I know they’re expensive but I love mine and they are so easy to clean. As for justifying the expense – I just keep telling myself I’m saving money on all the red mite treatments and wood preservative!! (probably take about 50 years before I’m saving money but anyway)
- kate83
…I bought the Cube for my hens, and it is absolutely fantastic, well worth the money. It’s so easy to clean, loads of space both inside the Cube and in the Run. It’s cool in the summer, warm in the winter, no red mite (especially now it comes with plastic roosting bars instead of wooden ones). I only had two hens, so I was a bit worried it would be too big, but it’s great. When I compared prices to wooden arks of similar quality, there wasn’t much in it.

I then bought two babies, and they can’t go in with the Big Girls until they are 22 weeks old. I bought an Eglu to house them, as I know I will be able to sell it afterwards and recoup most of my money. The Eglu is also good. It’s a lovely shape and is even easier to clean than the Cube. However, the Cube and Eglu have a very similar overall footprint, and the Cube makes a much better use of space (because the hens can use the area undeneath the Cube, whereas with an Eglu the bit of ground that the Eglu itself sits on gets trashed). If you can afford the Cube then that’s what I would recommend.

- dannahaz
…We have just bought an eglu because we have moved to a house with a small garden. I looked at the cube and prefer the look of the eglu. The downside is that you can only keep a few hens in it but we’re limited to that anyway because of the size of the garden. If we had a large garden, we’d have a shed for them but the eglu is better for us now because it can be moved around. We move it a few feet every morning so none of the ground is getting trashed.

The pros for us are:
* easy to move around – you have to do this because hens trash the ground
* very easy to clean and dries instantly unlike wood
* well made, seems durable
* looks funky but that’s personal – some people hate the look
* secure run
* food and water containers are good – off the ground and keep the food and water clean and dry (well, in the case of the food!)

The cons are
* limited space – large hens wouldn’t have the headroom but it’s fine for medium, small or bantams
*the cost, but as you say, they hold their value

- Magentasue
…Definately worth the money. Wooden coops rot in the wet and develop holes. 2 things to be mindeful of. Rats and keeping the chicken house clean.
If you have holes in a wooden house then rats can get in or they can knaw and make their own holes. Rats love layer pellets – chicken feed…
with the eglu you can remove the dome top completely, lay it to one side in your garden, get out the hose and spray it all clean.

We then take out the soiled straw and shavings/bedding from the bottom of the exposed eglu, remove the perch bars and again spray wash the lot.

What you don’t get with an eglu is poop catching in the grain of the wood or lodged in between wooden panels. It’s just so easy it’s unbelievable.
What you also don’t get are red mites, nasty little critters that like wooden houses as they can just sit in the grain undisturbed and then transfer to your chicken and make them ill.
The only down side to an eglu is the run and keeping it clean. It’s a metre long or as long as you wish if you buy extensions. We use a rake to get rid of debris. But for extra security we use tent pegs to keep the run attached to the garden and keep the rats out (sounds like we have lots of rats but actually it’s just a precaution as we’ve seen none)…We’re now looking for our 2nd eglu as we want another 2 chickens and putting them all into one is a little harsh…

- tech
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Had our 5 x black rocks for 6 months now and they love their eglu cube – and so do I! We were going to ‘save money’ and buy a wooden one but glad we didn’t – the eglu is fantastic. It is really easy to keep clean and really well made – I think it should last forever whereas our friends have a 2 year old wooden one that is a nightmare to clean and is already starting to rot really badly. I reckon lifespan on a wooden one is only 2 or 3 years so in the long run the Eglu is a bargain.
Dead easy to clean – we lock the girls out, dismantle the cube (roof slides right back, back comes off, roosting bars out, panel separating the nesting box out) give the whole thing a hose down and scrub with a deck bruch and then put back together. It’s dry in less than an hour or so at the most and we let the girls back in
We have the cube with an extended run but we have sectioned of the garden and they get let out to forage in amongst the shrubs. A lot of old threads say its hard to get into the run for the cube but the design has changed and the door is a decent size – I’m 6’2″ and I can get in.
For the little bit extra an eglu is worth it so long as you plan to keep chickens for a good few years…
-scotal73

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