2009 Omlet cube and run for sale

[cluckbok]

Hi ya, I'm just interested to know all of you that have cubes do you have large gardens or are there some of you like me that have postage stamp size? We thinking about upgrading to a cube, but I'm still a bit worried We do have enough room to site the cube, we wouldn't get too many more chickens, maybe another 2 or 3, do you think it's worth all the hassle of intros and cost etc?

 

Sorry for all the questions, just wanted to ask you guys cause you been there done that, got the t-shirt.

[moomin]

The cube is definitely a hefty old piece of kit, it's bigger than you think from the pics. I had one to start with but it leaked (not many leak so don't be put off), so I changed it for an Eglu.

[chelsea]

suppose there's two ways of looking at it.

 

The good thing is you could get more hens but would you want to have more hens free ranging in your small garden?

 

The cube is much bigger in real life, I was quite shocked when it arrived, why not visit a cube owner near you just so you can get the picture of it in your garden?

[BarbaraJ]

Mines about 70 foot by 40 so cube will not look big i hope. Its the freeranging i'd be more concerned about in a small garden.

Edited January 7, 2009 by Guest

[poachedegg]

We have a postage stamp and a Cube! Our garden is about 40ft wide x 35ft deep and it works fine for us. We have a 1metre ext with 5 chickens - we try and freerange (supervised only) most days, though this doesn't always happen.

 

I found it doesn't actually take up that much more space than the eglu - and I much prefer it.

 

Am considering whether to add another extension.

 

How big is your garden cluckbok?

[helenmb]

I upgraded from eglu to cube last autumn and love my cube. Its so much easier to clean (no bending down) and I haven't had any problems with intros either. I have however, a walk in run which we built just before our cube arrived (there at the time was a 6 week wait so we did it then). If you are only going to have the cube run I think you might want to investigate the conversion kit for the front of the run so you can more easily get in to clean it particularly if you don't have a lot of garden space for manoeuvring. The one thing I would add to Moomin's comments is that its pretty heavy so not very easy to move around if you have run extentions too I gather.

[cluckbok]

Hi ya Poachedegg,

 

Your garden sounds quite a bit bigger than ours, especially if you have a cube and 3 eglus in it aswell! Not measured ours but yours sounds bigger. Not sure what we will do yet, still in the thinking stages But thanks for advice.

[poachedegg]

Hi ya Poachedegg,

 

Your garden sounds quite a bit bigger than ours, especially if you have a cube and 3 eglus in it aswell! Not measured ours but yours sounds bigger. Not sure what we will do yet, still in the thinking stages But thanks for advice.

 

I've become expert at utilising the space!! - We have a cube and only 2 eglus (one of the guinea ones is a chicken one and we are swapping it for a guinea one).

 

To measure gardens, I count the fence panels (usually 6ft wide) and multiply.

 

If you look at the products pages, you can compare the measurements of the eglu and cube.

[The Dogmother]

My garden is long (80 feet) and thin, the cube lives at the end with its extended run. While all my girls were happy bundling into the eglu, I got the cube so that there was more nestbox room.