Can You Raise Chicks In An Eglu?

Are you looking to raise chicks alongside a flock of backyard hens? Then you’ll need to think through your options to accommodate them. You might be asking, is an Eglu suitable to raise chicks?

Here’s how one chicken hotel adapted an Eglu for housing chicks:

An Eglu set up for raising a chick safely:

Conclusion

With some minor adaptation, an Eglu with a small mesh run and an Eglu Classic door section improvisation is the ideal chick house. It requires a little smarts to hook up, but it provides a suitable temporary home for a chick.