Wanted: omlet eglu classic + run 🙏

[KateG]

Our current WIR hasn't been successful. Originally it was 6ftx7ft with the eglu inside on a 'mezzanine' level with a door to enable easy access to the eglu. The centre of the base of the run was soil with aubiose over the top. The WIR was sited on paving slabs.We're losing a lot of aubioise through the wire on to my garden too.

 

However the mezzanine level was too hard to keep clean, too high and took up too much room which made cleaning very very hard.

The soil in the WIR also made cleaning very hard so we're putting down a solid floor and I'd like a little bit more room (just one more paving slab on the width). I'd also like to have the eglu sited on the outside of the run to make cleaning/egg collection easier and to free up space inside the run. What is the safest way to fix this? I'm thinking the eglu will be on a table or similar, but do we need to form the 'hatch' to be the same shape as the edge (doorway) as the eglu?

 

Any other alterations that need adding at this point do you think?

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[Redwing]

boards around the bottom will stop the Aubiose being flicked out so may be a good idea

 

If it was me I would put the Eglu on a table outside cut the wire in the shape of an Eglu run end, bend this outwards and attach with the bolts like a normal run does

[atsw]

The WIR was sited on paving slabs.We're losing a lot of aubioise through the wire on to my garden too.

 

Any alterations that need adding at this point do you think?.

Have a read through this thread, Lewis came up with a cheap, simple, but very effective solution. Click here -> http://club.omlet.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=60345

 

For ideas about positioning your Eglu outside and against the WIR, it would be worth looking at the pictures in this 'pictures only' thread -> http://club.omlet.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12663

 

From my own personal experience, a solid floor makes life very easy. I have two Eglu's, but to save floor space they sit one above the other. The higher one sits on a table, the other on the floor below. You'll see a picture in the thread I linked to above.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Andrew

[jackthelad]

My eglu is on the outside of the run, also up on a level which makes easy cleaning.

 

Click on picture in my signature to see slide show of build which shows how it came together.