Eglu Cube arrived! Review with pics

[wyo-helpmeet]

I love the last pic!

 

[Lady Henevere]

The girls spent their first night out there last night, and all went well! They don't like walking on the floor that much since it's just slatted, but I'm assuming they will get used to it.

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I watched the video. Yes, I definitely don't want that!

I researched the cube before buying and it does seem that leaking can be a problem once in a while, but it's not that common as far as I can tell. According to some owners, tweaking the inside brackets should solve any leaking problems. I may try a sprinkler on it at some point just to check, since it probably won't rain for real here until fall or even winter. (I suppose that's another reason it doesn't worry me too much -- real rain here is pretty scarce.)

ETA: I also remembered that several people complained about limited access to the run since the run door is so small. But as you can see from the last picture, the door is big enough to put a lawn chair through! (I think it's been re-designed from the original.)

Thanks to everyone for all the nice comments!

 

[Catalina]

Wow! Cute!

 

[redhen]

Those are so cute..i keep wanting to find one somewhere ..cheap though..because i cant afford to pay that price. I have a dog igloo i was going to try to turn into one....

 

[angels4]

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I recieved my orange eglu in the first shipment out (sometime around February) and moved my eight week old girls into it on May 3rd, I was told on OmletUK to take the roosting bars out until they grew a little larger.
Mine has the tiny door you heard of and I can assure you it is no fun.

 

[Lady Henevere]

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Thanks! I put some cardboard on part of the coop on top of the roosting bars so they have a place to be off of them if they want. I think that will work for now.

That little door would be so difficult! I was thinking that maybe you could switch out the clips on one side of the run's end panel on with easy-to-remove clips (like binder clips from an office supply store) rather than the Eglu run clips and just open the whole end when you need to get in? Don't know if that would be too difficult to be practical. Alternately, you could see about a replacement from Omlet - I wonder if they would agree to switch your old one end panel for a new one since you just got it a few months ago.

 

[Lady Henevere]

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I did see a homemade one on here that was really cute. Here's the post:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1875824

 

[KimsKoop]

Great pictures. Did you get the standard run, or that plus the extension?

 

[Lady Henevere]

I got the extended run.

 

[canada-goose]

Gorgeous coop! I want a Cube someday!