4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[K-F-C]

I have an eglu and 3 hens on order... but am thinking about changing this to a cube. Is the cube too big for just 3 hens?

[Redwing]

I picked up a hen the other day from a chap who had just two hens in a cube

[moochoo]

It's not too big and it gives you more option for expansion later. I'm sure 3 chickens would be very happy in such palacial accomodation.

[Torrin]

I have a cube and only 4 hens. Then there's room for more

[K-F-C]

It's not too big and it gives you more option for expansion later. I'm sure 3 chickens would be very happy in such palacial accomodation.

 

Thanks. Looks like I'm gonna have to redesign the chipped area!

[Helly Welly]

Try to have at least three so that if one dies, the survivor isn't on there own.

[quickcluck]

................... and the colour? Will that change too?

[K-F-C]

................... and the colour? Will that change too?

 

It soooo could! Choosing the colour is the hardest thing! I like the pink, orange, red, purple and lilac! I wish they did yellow!

 

My wife doesn't want me to have the pink, because she loves pink and people might think that the hens are something to do with her!

[Helly Welly]

GO for orange, it's the best colour for the cube, not that i'm biased.

[Cooks]

I have to say I was going to go for either purple or orange but hubby and the kids veeto'd them and said only green which I am now pleased about as I love him.

[quickcluck]

I love my purple one......... but have a lavender eglu

[Falkor]

I would LOVE a but decided against it as I was told the orange ones let is most light which at this time of year could cause a problem.

 

I have four chooks in my cube but i am looking to add a few more very soon (SSSHHHHH)

 

Two would be ok but why not add a couple more to the order to be safe

[Cooks]

I would say order 3/4 girls rather than 2 as if soemthing should happen to one girl at sometime you would end up with a lone bird and thats not something we ever want for our girls really.

 

I had two girls and really regretted it, but I just couldn't get a third girl in the time scale I needed her at the time, so stuck with the two and then slowly intro'd two more girls a year later, which is another option

[K-F-C]

I would LOVE a but decided against it as I was told the orange ones let is most light which at this time of year could cause a problem.

 

That's interesting! Which colours let in the least amount of light?

[K-F-C]

I would say order 3/4 girls rather than 2 as if soemthing should happen to one girl at sometime you would end up with a lone bird and thats not something we ever want for our girls really.

 

I had two girls and really regretted it, but I just couldn't get a third girl in the time scale I needed her at the time, so stuck with the two and then slowly intro'd two more girls a year later, which is another option

 

I have ordered 3 Miss Pepperpots... but would quite like a white hen too!

 

Or Japanese Bantams... but imagine I could not mix these??

[Cooks]

how about going to a local breeder and getting a white hen just after the others have arrived and new to their accomodation?

 

I have a Coral (white hen) and she's adorable, greedy! but adorable and lays pale creamy pale eggs

[Falkor]

I would LOVE a but decided against it as I was told the orange ones let is most light which at this time of year could cause a problem.

 

That's interesting! Which colours let in the least amount of light?

 

There was a thread talking about this a while back but i think the and the are the ones that let least light in.

 

With the cube it is a bit of a non fact as the back panel is grey and there are more vent holes than than the Eglu so "real light" gets in anyways unless you rig a tent like cover up.

 

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I think the general answer to the bantam/hybrid mix question is not to as the larger may attack the bantams but on the otherhand there are people with successful mixed flocks. Check out Janty's signature : Cochins share cubes with pekin bantams! I am having little bros bantams over for a holdiday and they will start off seperate to my lot but if it looks like it is going well I might try some VERY slow intros.

 

My Amber Star is a all cream/white and she lays EVERY day

[K-F-C]

how about going to a local breeder and getting a white hen just after the others have arrived and new to their accomodation?

 

I have a Coral (white hen) and she's adorable, greedy! but adorable and lays pale creamy pale eggs

 

That sounds like a plan! My wife will not be happy... the flock is growing already!

[Torrin]

I have a red cube and it looks fab in the garden

[Cooks]

I believe others have done this, near enough on the day/day before/day after receving the girls from omlet, just to make sure they all go into the cube/eglu together etc around the same time and that no pecking order has already been established etc...

 

good luck!!! you wont go wrong with a coral or an Amber (both white birds) the latter lays pale pinky beige eggs I believe. White Stars are also a white bird and lay pure white eggs however they can be very flighty.

[K-F-C]

I would LOVE a but decided against it as I was told the orange ones let is most light which at this time of year could cause a problem.

 

That's interesting! Which colours let in the least amount of light?

 

There was a thread talking about this a while back but i think the and the are the ones that let least light in.

 

With the cube it is a bit of a non fact as the back panel is grey and there are more vent holes than than the Eglu so "real light" gets in anyways unless you rig a tent like cover up.

 

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I think the general answer to the bantam/hybrid mix question is not to as the larger may attack the bantams but on the otherhand there are people with successful mixed flocks. Check out Janty's signature : Cochins share cubes with pekin bantams! I am having little bros bantams over for a holdiday and they will start off seperate to my lot but if it looks like it is going well I might try some VERY slow intros.

 

My Amber Star is a all cream/white and she lays EVERY day

 

is rapidly becoming my favourite! But I am a very indecisive person!

 

I though as much re the bantams... it's just that I like Japan and Japanese stuff!

 

I really wouldn't want more that four hens because I want to be able to keep on top of the poo / smell etc...

[Falkor]

There she goes again! Ol' Cookie Monster encouraging people to get more chooks!

 

Actually she is very good and was my rock when I went to get my newbies.....I said two more and she made sure I only got two more. Admittedly she had to drag me out but still!

[Falkor]

I believe others have done this, near enough on the day/day before/day after receving the girls from omlet, just to make sure they all go into the cube/eglu together etc around the same time and that no pecking order has already been established etc...

 

good luck!!! you wont go wrong with a coral or an Amber (both white birds) the latter lays pale pinky beige eggs I believe.

 

Yup, I think Indie99 did that....got two hens from local breeder then two with her delivery

 

My amber lays a brown speckledy egg

[Cooks]

but everyone NEEDS a white chook!

 

well you would know more than me what an amber lays

Edited June 17, 2009 by Guest

[Janty]

I've tried to find some piccies of my girls mixing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bantams did move in with the big girls one day. Perhaps they prefered the cube to the eglu.