2 Chickens Not Laying, Eggs without Shells, & Now blood :/

[Annaspanner]

Hoping to pick up an old classic at the end of the week, but it has wooden bars which i’d rather avoid using to be honest. I’ve googled but can’t find anything definitive. Can I buy plastic bars that will fit? Do the ones currently on the eglu website work? 

Many thanks 

[Microstead]

Hi, 

I don't know much but I think you can purchase them online. If you go to the omlet home page, towards the top of the pages you can select a variety of animals, select chickens. Then it gives you loads of pictures with headings, towards the bottom you will find one that titled spares, click that and you will find mark 1 roosting bars which appear to,be plastic for £25 excluding p+p. Some people prefer the wooden ones though, for grip (and the environment)

HTH

 

Edited February 3, 2020 by Microstead

[Geoid]

Is it a Mark 1 or Mark 2 classic? 
If it’s a Mark 2 classic the roosting bars will look like this and you can replace them with plastic ones. If it’s a Mark 1 classic then you will have to use the wooden ones.

I replaced the wooden bars with plastic ones available on the main Omlet website and they are very robust and easy to clean too!  

[Microstead]

Ive just realised i misread and thought you wrote mk 1 so assumed it was a cube. 

Anyway, omlet sell lots of spares that aren't on the website. Once you've identified which classic you have, you can then look at the instructions for setting up and each part has a reference number identified. You can then call omlet with the reference number who can tell you if they have a spare plastic replacement for it and how much it will cost. I had to buy lots of spares that weren't advertised on the site this way

 

Edited February 3, 2020 by Microstead

[The Dogmother]

34 minutes ago, Geoid said:

Is it a Mark 1 or Mark 2 classic? 
If it’s a Mark 2 classic the roosting bars will look like this and you can replace them with plastic ones. If it’s a Mark 1 classic then you will have to use the wooden ones.

I replaced the wooden bars with plastic ones available on the main Omlet website and they are very robust and easy to clean too!  

If it has wire mesh in the base, then it's a mark 1.

Mark 1, note the shorter poo tray and individual wooden roosting bars

Mark 2

[Patricia W]

The Mk 2 had wooden bars too for a time.  I had one and replaced them with plastic.   I’m fairly sure they still make them

[The Dogmother]

7 hours ago, Patricia W said:

The Mk 2 had wooden bars too for a time.  I had one and replaced them with plastic.   I’m fairly sure they still make them

Golly, I had forgotten that! In fact, my old orange classic had wooden bars at first.

[Annaspanner]

Thanks guys. Looks like it’s a mark 1 - does that mean i’m stuck with the wooden bars? 

[Annaspanner]

[The Dogmother]

Sorry, only if you make them yourself - Omlet never made plastic bars to fit that model. In act it wasn't around fro that long before the mark 2 came out.