Customer Reviews

A good and useful extension to give important extra space for 4 hens. Addition of a horizontal bar (maybe a perch) at the junction of the main run with the extension would greatly improve stability - otherwise the sides sag in a bit!

Hi there. I'm so pleased with my Eglu cube, extra run and covers. I came to your offices to collect it as delivery would have been a bit too late for me. Your chaps were brilliant and got everything into my old ford focus with not an inch to spare! It took me about 4 hours to assemble it on my own. The instructions made sense. The clips were missing but that was soon sorted, a quick phone call and they arrived within a day or so. In the meantime I used cable ties so no problems. Dandelion and Bluebell are very happy in their new home. I have them on the grass with daytime access to a lovely area under some trees with plenty of dirt. I have chicken wire to keep them in that area. I removed the clips from one side of the back panel of the run, between the wheel thingies, so it works like a little hinged door which closes tight with your bungee clips at night. They can run in and out between the spaces. I did this because I didn't want to look at the back of the eglu from my kitchen window. I didn't realise you had taller add on runs for the cube and never thought it would be difficult but I had trouble getting into the run through the small door to clean up. I had to find another way so I now use the bungee clips to open and close the whole front of the run, keeping the clips on one side as a hinge. This works brilliantly. I took out one set of roosting racks and put an big old stick in there so they can choose how they roost. The nesting box and roost area is great. I love all the air vents. One improvement could be a grill rather than large hole in the bottom of the nest box as my aubiose bedding fell out. It now has a piece of jcloth over it under the bedding. It's so easy to clean. The trays under the roost are brilliant. And it's great to have all this at a good height. They were a little perplexed by the ladder but soon got the hang of it. If I had to improve on the eglu, it would be the addition of pop holes for the girls to allow access on any side. And add-on lengths of run for those of us who don't have the taller ones, that would be great. I found that the covers didn't keep the run dry. I felt that covering it all up wouldn't allow air to circulate. I use a green tarpaulin right over the top resting on the washing line and prop, and tied to the shed and trees, like a roof sail. I can get this little contraption up in about 3 mins! This allows plenty of air to circulate but the first time the rain poured off and splashed back into the run. I now use the short covers all the way round at the bottom, kind of sloping outwards to allow the rain to run away. And bingo - a dry run. The green is great, very funky. I painted their names and a picture of dandelions and bluebells on the front, gave them some bunting, a bit of tree stump and it's fabulous. I struggled with all sorts of houses and arrangements before I found the eglu. Thank you very much, it's awesome! With our very best wishes, Lynn, Dandelion and Bluebell xxx

My hens absolutely love it, they jump up and down when they see it coming!!

I am pleased with this heavy duty cover and look forward to my lovely ladies enjoying a bit of autumn/winter sunshine while being protected from the rain.

Good thick plastic cover; I bought it to replace the one I already had because some of the eyelets had torn away from the plastic and had gone very rusty. Apart from that small problem I have been very pleased with it.

I bought this immediately after constructing the Eglu Go with the standard run. With the standard run the set-up looked too small, the run extension made a massive difference - looks like it doubles the amount of space because it's wide. I'd add more if I could but I've run out of space!

Eglu Go is as expected. I have it with the run extension so total length is 3m for 2 pekins and 2 wyandotte bantams. Plenty of space, looks good and easy to keep clean. The run would be much easier to access and clean if there was some sort of hatch through the roof.

We did lots of research and are pleased with our choice. The coop is large and easily accessible to clean, the run is a great size (with 1 m extension) and easy to reach inside to change food etc. The kids can also sit inside with our 4 bantams when they are free ranging. We have used the omlet edging to go round it which fits perfectly. It was a bit tricky to put together as we got a bit confused on which way the run went on - instructions not great - but using photos helped!

Once assembled the eglu go is fantastic! It looks good and is the coop is easy to clean. Our chickens love it and we love watching them enjoying their new home. However, it does need a few improvements in my opinion: 1. The run doesn't easily attach to the coop because of the curved roof, as a result we have slightly scratched the coop trying to put it together. 2. The door to the run is very small! This is mostly a problem when I go in at night to poo pick, I have to try and squeeze through the hole to get to the end of the run (and I'm very petite). I can see it being a real pain in about 6 months time when I have to clean out the whole of the run floor.

A year on from my original review and happy to report that there have been no recurrences of the skin problems that plagued on of our guineas before we switched to aubiose. We will never use anything else again!