Eglu Go With 2m Run For Sale

[Green Tea]

Forget the Eglu and the Cube .......... so last year

 

Who loves their hens enough to buy them The Nogg

 

http://www.nogg.co/about/

 

At only £1950 .......... it's what every discerning chicken-lover needs

[squiffs]

It looks very twee and cute but I'm not sure how practical it is, looks like it'd be annoying to clean out, and a little bit cramped

 

 

And the price, I won't even mention.

[Dodge]

This is a design classic and a brilliant feat of engineering and construction and if you start thinking of the amount of work it must take to build one of these, then you can sort of justify the cost.

 

Whether or not it is a practical way to keep chickens remains to be seen.

 

For those of you that would like to take a closer look, here is a link with a lot more pictures.

 

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/11671/nogg-chicken-coop.html

[beach chick]

I think it's really beautiful, but it would break my heart to see it covered in chicken poo!

[stehaggan]

That looks really nice , it doesn't have a nest box though does it? I'm sure my girls would love dumping all over it so it wouldn't stay so nice looking for long

[Chortle Chook]

I think one should have a Grand Desgins house to go with it e.g. one of those modern German ones (Huff Haus or something like that) . Alas I have a Victorian terraced house . . . but think how many tubs of meal worms I can buy my chooks in its place

[fluffy chick]

No, don't like it. But then I didn't like to eglus till they'd been out a few years. I think I need time to let things grow on me! Still waiting to this to happen with my OH

[egglicious]

Omg... WANT!!!!

[surfer_chicken]

It's very stunning and clearly an amazing piece of design and engineering, but I wouldn't score it very high practically. It doesn't look very easy to clean out; there don't seem to be any nest boxes and the roosting bars would only seem to fit one chicken, maybe two.

 

A lovely work of art though!

[gongladosh]

I'll have two at that price...

[Redwing]

For a similar effect look at the Chicubes wooden version, same cool wood/metal contrast and much cheaper!

 

I will stick with the Eglu though

[Olly]

Oh, my ..... it looks lovely, but:

 

How could you attach a run to that? It needs to be on it's own somewhere in the garden, just looking gorgeous, not surrounded by weldmesh or eletric fencing

However would you clean it? As said above, it won't look so beautiful with chicken poo all over the inside!

Imagine red mite in there ...

 

I'm just too pragmatic for this sort of thing. It's been designed to look good in the garden, not designed to suit hens/hen-keeping, in my view. Oh well, that's £1950 saved - now, what can I spent that on instead!

[Chortle Chook]

Guess it is more of a sculpture than a real hen house. I was wondering what breed of chicken would look right with it Nothing too ruffty tuffty . . . possibly something minimalist . . . like a naked neck

[ThinkingChickens]

If you had a Danish Modern, or the like type house I could see you keeping maybe two hens if your backyard in one of these. However, it looks so small and confining and I worry about ventilation. Of course, everyone I know who lives around me in California hated the Eglu too until they got to see mine in person. So, I'd love to see one of these before I make my final vote.