Omlet Eglu Cube Automatic Nest Door
While chickens typically sleep on perches (and therefore their faeces fall through to the droppings tray), some like ourselves find their chickens enjoy the luxury of snuggling into the nesting box. This means they make a mess of both the nestbox and eggs creating complications and health risks (the whole never wash eggs but don't leave bacteria on them dilemma). Our former wooden chicken coop deteriorated around the same time as our old chickens passing on, so I took the plunge and upgraded to Omlet’s Eglu Cube . It is an incredibly well designed and easily cleaned product, and has a partition wall with sliding door that isolates the nesting and sleeping areas. For the first few months I left the nest door closed in the hope of teaching our new chicks it is not for sleeping. Once they were ready to lay I opened the door – but one of the four quickly began to call the nestbox home and our faeces saga started all over again. So each da...