Solitary chicken - need advice

[Cooks]

yes meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!, I cant decide which colour I like best so not ordered it yet, but will within the next week or so (probably , and if a recon hasn't popped up I will just get a new one, withought wheels and run.

(thanks for that tip moochoo)

 

hubby is re doing the walk in base and working on a place for the cube to go etc... this should happen real quick as soon as the weather picks up but I cant send him out in this, however much I want the cube...

Edited January 26, 2009 by Guest

[poachedegg]

Ya! Ya! - so when are you getting more chickens?

[Cooks]

now you lot are a bad influence..... I have offered to rehome Gloria, so if I was lucky I would have her, but if not I guess I will get another girly sometime before selling on my beloved

 

I only want 3 girls, only ever did.... might change my mind later... who knows, but the joy of having a cube is that the option is there for future

 

edited to say also like the

[Chickvic]

Congratulations will look

[moochoo]

Congratulations! Obviously we want updates and photos

[Cooks]

obviously , you;ll get them when I can decide on what colour!, I read that purple is good for the light mornings due to its dark colouring, I cant remember where though!. but the boys are pushing for blue..

 

so it's either and no I cant have all three.

 

wish for the weather to get better and hubby will get out there soritng it for me. I never thought he would agree to a cube!!! i must have more power than I thought..

[cam1]

Ohhhhh congratulations.... how jealous am i?

Cam

mya

velma

[Happy chickens!]

A girl can never have too much purple imo!!

[Cooks]

I DO love purple...

[abwsco]

I DO love purple...

 

You need to get whichever colour that will co-ordinate with your troll bracelet

Edited January 7, 2009 by Guest

[Chickvic]

I'd go for and when we finally get a cube that's what colour we'll get.

[Cooks]

 

You need to get whichever colour that will co-ordinate with your troll bracelet

 

they dont do pastels...

 

ooh Lilac!!!!

[Falkor]

lucky U!!!

 

what colour to choose!!!!!??????

[Cooks]

I will be weeks deciding at this rate... I wish they just had a recon one and the colour choice was then deicded for me.... knowing my luck they'd only have pink though! *shudder*

[Janty]

Get then you can keep your and they will match.

 

[Janty]

Oh, and by the way, I only wanted three originally!

 

I ordered four from Merrydale and came home with seven.

 

Then the bantam got picked on and hubby suggested getting an eglu and some more bantams to keep Popcorn company. Soon afterwards four more arrived.

 

Then the two brahma Spice Girls turned out to be Spice Boys. We took two males to be re-homed at a brahma breeders and somehow came home with two full sized brahma hens and a brahma mini.

 

Then we got the ex-batts.

 

Then my son said that the only thing that he wanted for his twelfth birthday was two Rhode Island Reds. We then got the two minis despite me saying that we were never getting pets for birthdays (chickens have now been excluded from this rule ).

 

Now look at us!

[Cooks]

this seriously made me laugh.....

nope the eglu will have to go, however much I love it, I dont have room for them both..

[Janty]

Can't something else go first?

[Cooks]

hmmm my garden isn't that huge, and to be honest I need the money to help fund the cube, I would love to keep it, but not possible.

[Cooks]

are there any dimensions for the cube anywhere?? including clearance needed to remove poop trays and pull out door handle etc.??

 

as you probably remember I getting the cube as my back is bad and I have trouble with the eglu... the theory is that I will clean it where it stands, I know some of you manage this, but how does come apart?

 

I think hubby might be bringing the walk in run forward from the rea fench and the cube will sit behind.. so I would need to make sure there was enough space allowed to carryout everything I would need.

[BarbaraJ]

obviously , you;ll get them when I can decide on what colour!, I read that purple is good for the light mornings due to its dark colouring, I cant remember where though!. but the boys are pushing for blue..

 

so it's either and no I cant have all three.

 

wish for the weather to get better and hubby will get out there soritng it for me. I never thought he would agree to a cube!!! i must have more power than I thought..

 

exactly whats happened here never thought he'd agree and i'm getting a possible 6 foot by 8-12 foot extension on my run

 

my cube will be on the side with the ladder attached to the frame of the run so i can pull the cube away if i need to!

[chelsea]

great news!

 

Get PURPLE and then you'd have the same as me...orange & purple!

 

The purple is fab, its still looking pristine and I think its better in the summer as its nice and dark inside (for the lighter mornings)

[Falkor]

are there any dimensions for the cube anywhere?? including clearance needed to remove poop trays and pull out door handle etc.

 

 

http://www.omlet.co.uk/products_services/products_services.php?view=Eglu%20Cube&about=secure%20run&rolling_image_id=3

 

Pics with the measurements but it doesn`t show poop trays or handle sorry.

[Cooks]

thanks pallmer that is great!

 

Can someone measure the distance needed to remove the poop trays comfortably please??? and the gap ay the side needd for comfy use of door opener?? thanks

[Cooks]

great news!

 

Get PURPLE and then you'd have the same as me...orange & purple!

 

The purple is fab, its still looking pristine and I think its better in the summer as its nice and dark inside (for the lighter mornings)

 

 

see I knew I read somewhere about Purple and it's better in lighter mornings!... must have been from you!..

 

I wont be able to keep the orange eglu though, after I have re introduced errrrrrrr 2 more girlies (was only going to be one!!!!!) I will be selling it on unfortunately . I wish I had the space or the money to keep it, but I will be relying on that money to pay back some I used for the cube if that makes sense?.

 

BUT I WILL use it first to carefully introduce 2 more girls! then it can go to it's new home with my best wishes and I expect a card every now and then

 

The thing I am waiting on now is the weather getting better, hubby wants to dismantle the run and put a new base down with a brick base for the cube.. so the weather has to be better than freezing otherwise the bricks dont set properly or something?? either that or hubby doesn't like this cold