Customer Reviews

We've now had the Omlet Catio 2 weeks and my girls Stevie and Esmè absolutely love this. From a human perspective we found the assembly instructions confusing but the videos were far clearer to understand. Assembly wise its a 2 person job especially the roof and when screwing the platforms into place. For someone with some flatpack skill it's not a difficult build. I'm very pleased with the outcome because it looks good in the garden and not ugly. I've ordered some more extras for it now. It's expensive but I'm not regretting it and I'm pleased my girls can safely play out

I have two Cubes now. One has a 9 ft extension (with wheels and handles). The other is just on the stand (no wheels). Both are connected to a 9ft x 24ft by 6ft walk-in run. I initially used the Cube as a chicken tractor until the first winter. Living in New England where snow and ice lock the Coop+run in place for months out of the year, I decided to invest in the walk-in run to give the chickens more space to roam, while being safe and protected by the heavy duty steel mesh. The Cube affords easily clean up with the droppings tray that slides in and out. The nesting box area is lovely so that the chickens lay in one place and sleep/poop in another. (I like to put fine straw in the nesting box as soft bedding.) The Cube is also compatible with the automatic door, which is SO incredibly nice to have. That was something that I didn't buy initially, but after a few months decided to purchase. It would have been much easier to install it in one fell swoop when the coop/run arrived. If you're on the fence about the automatic door, get it when you get the Cube. It's worth every penny. The only word of wisdom is for the warm months. The green plastic for the coop can get quite warm, so consider deploying a patio umbrella to shade it. I have a digital thermometer inside one of the Cubes to monitor the temp while I'm inside the house. The Cube can get very hot inside when the sun beats on it for hours at a time. The umbrella works wonders though.

The windbreak is a must-have. When the weather is rough--whether rainy, snowy, windy, or icy--the windbreak provides a safe space for the chickens to huddle. I couldn't recommend it more highly. A lot of Omlet's products are nice to have; this is essential if you live in a cold or windy climate.

These covers are worth every penny. They provide essential coverage to the walk-in run so that your chickens can use the space during the cold, rainy, and snowy/icy months.

The run porch gives another layer of protection and security for your chickens, especially if they don't free range and you're worried about one zooming out when you open the door.

The walk-in run has been the best-ever Omlet purchase/investment. I live in New England where we get snow and icy conditions for many months out of the year. The walk-in run provides a safe space for the chickens to roam during the months when the coops are stuck in place because they're frozen into the ground or snow prevents you from moving the coop around. I bought the largest size walk-in run available (9ft x 13ft x 6ft) and have never regretted it. I bought Omlet's heavy duty tarps that provide cover over the run panels. This allows for my chickens to have plenty of room while not having to trudge through snow and ice. I cover the ground in the run with straw that I get in bales from the local Agway store. Living in a place that gets a lot of snow, I did buy the Eversprout Never-Scratch SnowBuster roof rake on Amazon to clear the snow from the tarp panels. It works great for those storms with heavy snow.

The tarp is rugged and provides much-needed protection from the elements.

My girls love their catio, the platforms are large and secure with lovely easy to remove pads, the bridge, I think, adds to the rigidity so would recommend getting one! Don’t bother with the pads on the steps and make sure you check the rope, mine doesn’t fit my structure but was all in the same section when purchasing!

The chicken fencing is a great way to quickly expand how much room your flock has to roam while still keeping parts of the garden chicken free (essential if you have a vegetable patch). It's very easy to set up, just cut to size, and thread through the support poles. For those with a run, either walk-in or half height, you can attach the fencing to it with an additional kit so you can instantly expand the amount of run space your chickens have.

We have gone through several sets of moveable fencing over the years. We often looked at the Omlet fencing but always decided it was very expensive compared to other systems we could use. However, all the other sets we have had have developed holes, have had very bendy poles and hence sagging netting and it has always been difficult to keep the hens in - it was a running battle to find out how they got out this time! It got to look really tatty with extra poles put in, concrete bricks laid along the bottom and baler twine tying up the holes! After a recent disaster with my pea seedlings we decided to splash out and get the Omlet fencing. We haven't had it long so I can't speak to its durability. But the height, rigidity of the poles and the netting has defeated the hens and they are now safely contained. Also, it looks good in the garden, really tidy. We got the 42m version and it was quite a bit of work setting it up for the first time but a lot of that work won't have to be done again when we move it. I am really pleased with this fencing and wish we had bought it first time around as it would have been cheaper in the long run and visually much more pleasing.