Eglu Cubes

[beach chick]

my OH got me a pink eglu for my birthday the week before last (always wanted chooks, never got round to it...) Chardonnay, Mercedes, Paris and Tara have been here for 3 days now and seem pretty well settled in.
I would say that 1 eglu is not big enough for 4 birds, I'm just letting mine get to know where they live and for omlet nettting to arrive before letting them out for more space and free ranging. not going totally free range throughout garden, worried about escapees (not to mention my nurtured plants) and also foxes.
but fed them some slugs found on the grass yesterday - the girls said yum yum, and wolfed them down! now looking for slug traps to catch beasties overnight and then give them to my chooks!

[TPeers]

Wonderful! Enjoy your birds but bear in mind that to keep them in you will need fencing that is over 6' or that has a top as well as sides.

It is easy to construct a sort of oversize rabbit run. Get a roll or two of wire avery mesh and build a run 90cm high (the height of the wire roll) by say 2.4m (the average length of a piece of lumber from the DIY store) by 1.2m (guess!).

The hardest bit is stretching to staple the wire down, the whole thing will take about and hour and a half or two hours for two people. The height is quite sufficient to give them plenty of head room and they could be left in it during the day if you fixed it down. Your eglu should fit inside it, so if you added a gate somewhere you could use it as a main run. Not as nice to look at as the eglu products - but much cheaper!

Terry