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Your chicken-keeping questions answered

March 26, 2010

Starting out with chickens can be a confusing business – we know from when we did it ourselves. That’s why we’re always happy to answer first-timers’ questions. Here are three questions from this week’s mailbox.

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How cosy is a chicken coop?

January 27, 2010
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By putting a thermometer in the chicken coop we have been able to keep an eye on how cosy it gets in there when the door is closed and they’re all packed in overnight. The answer, it seems, is not that cosy at all.

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Omlet Eglu Cube: review

September 15, 2008

Omlet Eglu CubeWe’ve had our Omlet Eglu Cube for a while now, and it’s been home to our three chickens – Barbara, Margot and Gerry – for the last month. So how has it stood up in that time?

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Building an Omlet Eglu Cube

July 9, 2008

Omlet CubeThe chickens’ future home arrived last week. Very exciting. Having got permission from the council’s environmental health people to keep chickens in the garden, it was great to finally have their home arrive, despite the missing bolts and the fact they’d tried delivering it a day too soon.

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