Verified Reviews for Eglu Cube^® - Large Chicken Coops with Runs

Having been let down by Parcelforce for 3 days as they kept trying to deliver my Cube to the wrong address, I was apprehensive about how well the Omlet Cube was going to live up to its great reviews - but its fantastic! I built it myself in the afternoon and the newly arrived chickens love it. Its so easy to clean out and requires minimal maintenance. Its also a great feature for the garden. Although expensive compared to some other chicken houses I think its worth every penny.

I do love this cube for my hens..I call it their penthouse and my three hens are now officially pampered however it does have flaws... The only reason that the house doesn't score 5 stars is because a couple of the joints don't line up immaculately, initially this was quite annoying as part of the reason for having an Omlet product is because its a design item. If there's anything else to mention its the ladder, its spacing is quite deep between each step, with little grip; initially the hens struggled to get down it, they tumbled off, flew off, fell off and crashed into the cage run at the end! However they have now mastered it..I want to have chicks reared in there, so not too sure how going to cope with this, will probably have to make a new ladder for them!

Really pleased with our new eglu cube, we upgraded from the classic as we have caught the bug for keeping chicken and have increased the size of our flock. The design is excellent, assembly straightforward, omlet have thought of everything. Our only issue has been with the ladder, our bantams couldn't manage it at all and slipped off the rungs, one even got stuck between the rungs. We have had to construct our own wooden ladder. Otherwise we can't fault it.

I have had a number of wooden arks in the past, and I promised myself that the next I got would be an Omlet. I couldn't be more pleased. It is so well designed and easy to use and clean. I have 8 girls in it, with the 1 metre run extension, and it opens straight into an enclosure using the 42 metre omlet fencing. My boys collect the eggs, and I clean the droppings trays without going into the enclosure (thereby avoiding small shoes treading through droppings - very important!!). I line the trays with newspaper and this all tips straight into a compost bin, and use shredded newspaper in the egg nest area which they love. It is great knowing that I won't have to do battle with red mite again too, a perennial problem with a wooden ark. Five stars all the way on this one omlet - thank you.

The evidence on the ground this morning shows that Mr Fox and probably some family members came to visit my chickens last night. No damage at all to the run or house. Thanks Omlet - from me and my girls!

Purchased the Eglu Cube for our chickens at school. They love their new home. It is easy to clean and maintain, which is ideal, as the children will help to look after them.

Straightforward to assemble, easy to clean and the reason I bought it - definately foxproof. In my opinion though I would say that 4 hens are the maximum, even with the extension.

We are really pleased with our Eglu, our chickens seem to like it too. It was delivered and erected by your staff who even gave us a little lesson in using the Eglu and keeping chickens. Sarah

The order for delivery in Poland was delivered on time and in good order. It is installed in my back garden where it now comfortably houses eight hens. I free range the hens so the small run is open at all times and I use an Omlet 21 M netting fence to ocnfine the hens to one half of the garden away from the vegetable patch. Assembly presented no problems. If I have any reservations they are concerned with the ventilation which may be too much in our severe Polish winter and I may have to find a way to minimise draughts when temperatures plunge to minus 20 C in the winter and fine driven powder snow is forced into nooks and crannies - I will find out next winter. For now the hens happily put themselves to bed every night and I secure them when they ar e in and let them out in the morning confident they are secure from local foxes. I think the steps are really not appropriate and do find fault with them. My hens found them impossible to negotiate and looked to be in danger of injuring themselves so I immediately constructed a wooden ramp with cross pieces providing traction and they are happy with this arrangement - I would implore Omlet to reddesign this feature as I know others have had similar problems. This weakness is why I have rated the cube as Good and not given it the top rating. I am pleased with my purchase and woud recommend it to anyone, especially because it is hygenic and easy to keep clean.

At least that's how my friends describe it. Easy to construct, easy to clean, chickens like it!