Eglu small chook house query
- From: "Catherine Jemma" <xena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:30:05 +0800
Hi there
An earlier posting referred to a product called an "Eglu" apparently a small
chicken house available in England or America and intended for 3 or less
backyard hens
Great Idea for this kind of thing to be available, I didn't know it was,
I've certainly never seen anything like it here (Australia) although I've
never especially looked
It seems the "Eglu" is rather small, with just a 3 hen maximum limit, I'd
hope the company make and market a slightly larger model that could take
upto 5 or 6 full size hens
Something that pisses me off and is such a waste of resources generally is
the excessively high amount of cat and dog ownership in Western World
cities, including even multistory apartments or flats, yet so few people
have backyard chickens, which in part at least can eat food leftovers and
chicken scraps.
Many parents nowadays are so slack with their kids, friends I know had 3
kids and regularly 50% of the food Mum served out onto the table was
un-eaten by the kids and went wasted into the rubbish bin
.......when I grew up, "in our 'ouse", you had to eat everything that was on
your plate (with the exception of bones or gristle)
Even in Perth, a small city by world standards just 1.5 million people,
there's a few multistory apartment towers, but most buildings restricted to
3 stories in height, tenants often allowed dogs and cats, but never
chickens. Golly we need some special sorta "Eglu" things designed to fit on
the standard outdoor patio they have (pretty much all upstairs apartments
have a 1 metre by 5 metre outside verandah thing, required under fire escape
laws
Now the trick would be to combine an "Eglu" with a sorta wheelbarrow thing
so that folks can wheel their chooks off to graze in the public park (some
home-made devices which some people call a chicken tractor or a chicken-ark
do exist, usually home-made
Hey can someone post some, not too big in memory size please, photos of
these Eglu things, for those of us that have never seen them
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