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

Awesome coop, easy to put together and safe from predators. We added a 50 by 50 outside run and put the cube under a shed because we don’t have a lot of shade trees and I wanted the eglu in a permanent spot. We have lots of predators in NH so the outside run has solar electric fence around it and bird netting over it. The eglu is really easy to move around and is built really well so it's going to be predator proof and a warm place for the girls this winter. Great design they walk right up the ladder every night and climb in for bed the first few nights they piled up in front of the door but within a couple nights they go up and right to the back. Awesome coop we are very happy with it and have shown it to several people who were interested in purchasing one.

I love my Eglu Cube. It’s a great little coop for an urban farmer. It’s super easy to clean, and all of the poops come easily off with my hose. Keeps my birds warm and safe at night. Has safety latches so predators can’t get in. The coop is really sturdy and is easily moveable with the wheels. A super cute coop.

I have long wanted a cube, my dream came true this summer. My Chickens and Ducks all pile in there together, have their favourite places to roost, leaving just one hen who prefers the Eglu Go. We didn't want the ladder and stand, such a shame that we have to have it, a waste. However we have made it into a platform which the Cockerel enjoys.

This is better than we'd even hoped. The coop is beautifully engineered and clever. The chickens are cozy and dry at night, the coop is super easy to clean (our kids do it) and with the wheels, the whole setup is easy to move. ALSO: customer service is excellent--they really want everything to work out.

We decided to increase our garden flock so upgraded from the smaller co-op to this. Easy to put together with help from my 11 year old and so pleased with it. Great product.

Direct Freight Express lost two of my 6 boxes but Omlet helped me chase them up, and when one part of the frame proved to be scratched they organised for a replacement to be sent (from the UK) by DHL. That’s service. The Cube is definitely easier to assemble as a two person job. The automatic door I ordered as an add on worked just as it is supposed to, although it was a little bit fiddly to assemble the small parts and connect the Control Panel. I would like to be able to use time mode in the morning and light mode in the evening but the software does not allow this at this stage. I do recommend buying the bracket to mount the Control panel to the Cube at the same time as it looks neat. My 3 ISA Brown girls took some time to get used to the ladder so I propped a plank up as a temporary ramp and brought it down a rung every couple of days. I let them roost in their old house the first night and picked them up when they were sleepy and posted them into the new Cube. After that they put themselves to bed in the Cube and seem very comfortable. I get some eggs in the nesting box but one girl lays in the roosting area. The droppings tray is very easy to empty and both it and the rungs can simply be pressure cleaned, works very well. I ordered the run later. This was not ideal as you really do have to dismantle most of the Cube to instal the run. It looks like you may be able to get away without doing so but trust me, you can’t. I found the run fiddly to assemble and would have preferred it to be in fewer parts. In particular the double clips are very difficult unless you have strong hands. Like many others, I ended up reinforcing the structure with many cable ties, used an entire packet of 100. Also, the front panels to which the doors attach were I think supposed to be identical but in fact mine weren’t (One of the hooks for the locking pins was bent out) and I installed them the wrong way round to start off with so the locking pins would not go through. Works now I swapped them round but worth checking the door pins go through the frame loops before clipping everything together. The whole thing took many hours to assemble single handed mainly due to having to dismantle the Cube (Obviously not an issue if the run is assembled at the sae time as the Cube) and to struggling with the double clips. I’m loving the Cube and auto door and would definitely buy it again, but time will tell if the run proves to be a useful and durable add on.

Really happy with my new chicken house - only comment being I wish there was a bit more distance between the perches as a lot of the chicken poo sticks on the perches, rather than falling through like my wooden house. Still it's easier to do a proper deep clean and hens seem happy. The automatic door is brilliant and now I can move them around the garden. Still waiting for my handles which will make it even easier.

I purchased the first Omlet cube some time ago and it was user friendly but I found just a couple of niggles with it. I now have the Omlet Cube Mark 2 and these niggles have all been addressed. The door is simpler, one tray to clean, plastic runners both inside for sleep and on the wider ladder, and a shutable door to the nesting box for nighttime. Very happy customer with very happy chickens.

The Cube MkII and run is without doubt the best chicken coop I have used. It can be dismantled in minutes for routine cleaning and the thought and experience which has gone into the design shines through. The material from which the Cube is made makes it so easy to remove dirt with just a suitable detergent and hosepipe. The droppings tray is easily emptied and I use a sheet of polythene on top of it which enables me to lift out the old absorbent material and droppings in one operation. The rear door and egg hatch fit perfectly and the latches easy to use and secure. The pop hole door is conveniently operated from outside the run which is a huge improvement on my wooden coops used previously. If you need to move the coop around as I do, then the optional wheel kit is a must as the whole coop and run can be moved by one person. (I needed three people to move my old wooden coop). I can think of only three features which I would design in if I had the opportunity: 1. A sliding tray for the floor of the nestbox area (similar to the droppings tray) would simplify the changing of the bedding material; 2. Dividers in the nest box area would help keep the bedding in place as when my chooks scratch around in there to make a nest, they invariably move all the bedding to one end and lay their eggs on the plastic floor; 3. Automation of the sliding door between the roosting area and nest box area (similar to the automated pop hole door already available) would prevent the risk of the chooks sleeping in the nest box. Were it not for those missing features I would have given a five star rating without question. However, even without those improvements, I would happily buy the product again.

Very helpful staff answering my queries via email before I ordered it and it arrived before the due delivery date, well packaged, I was concerned as it seemed a lot of money to spend on a hen house but I have not been disappointed, I needed something to keep my girls safe and secure should we be out at lock up time. My neighbour had always done this for us but they have moved house. The eglu is very well made and whilst it took us some hours to put up, we were very pleased. Cleaning it is a dream, I'm sure we won't be bothered with mite anymore. The auto door means I get a lie in and let the girls out of the run just before I leave for work and coax them back into the run with some corn when I get in. The first few weeks I still went out to check the door had closed correctly but I now have full confidence in it. We go on holiday soon and the real test will begin. They will stay in the run with my son just popping over once a day to check on food and water and collect any eggs.