Keeping Chickens

Eggloo, Egloo or Eglu…?

Words such as Eggloo, Egloo and Eglu have been showing up in search results stats for Keeping Chickens, so I decided to see what they’re all about!

First thing I’ve discovered is that Eggloo and Egloo are spelling mistakes for Eglu, or to give it it’s full title; Omlet Eglu.

The Omlet Eglu is a funky looking chicken house and is made of recycled polyethylene, (so you can feel good about doing your bit for the environment by owning a Eggloo… Sorry Eglu!) the Eglu appears to come in a variety of different colours.

Eglu or Eggloo or Egloo - Portable Chicken House

The Eglu is also scalable, so it can house from 2 to 10 chickens depending on size. You can also extend the size of the chicken run to allow more ‘wing stretching’ space.

The Eglu is a moveable chicken house - it has wheels, so you can change it’s location pretty easily if you keep chickens in your garden.

Made in the UK, Omlet Eglu also offers a home set-up, for those new to chicken keeping and offers additional chicken keeping advice and services such as wing clipping. They also seem to offer chicken keeping courses.

The Eglu website is pretty informative and has various different chicken keeping guides, they also seem to sell chickens, so if you’re looking to keep chickens in your garden they may be a good place to start - if of course there isn’t a local chicken breeder with chickens for sale.

The one thing that will immediately strike you is the price. The Omlet Eglu is eye wateringly expensive, but then again it does claim to be a fox free chicken house, so you should expect not to lose any chickens to foxes.

They also claim that the Eglu is a low maintainence chicken house, so you may make your money back in less time spent in cleaning out your chicken house.

I have seen a few of these Eglu chicken houses for sale on ebay. Check here for chicken house section. They’re obviously second hand, but if price is a consideration then they may be worth checking out.

Of course you won’t get the 30 day money back offer unless you buy from the main Eglu chicken house website.

The Eglu comes with some nifty free extras, including a all weather shade, which will protect your chickens from the sun, wind and rain. A free food and water tray, some free chicken feed and a chicken keeping book. It also comes with 10 free egg boxes to store or give away your chicken eggs.

You can even (depending on your postcode due to availability) get your Omlet Eglu delivery to include chickens. They have a special chicken delivery service and you can choose from two types which kind of chickens you’d like.

So who would buy a Eggloo, Egloo or Eglu? I think they’re aimed at first time chicken keepers looking for a chicken house that’s easy to assemble and comes with support from a company that gives the impression via their website of being practible, knowledable and down to earth.

Check out a Eglu and see what you think.

Click Keeping Chickens On A Budget for further chicken keeping information.