AUTOMATIC CHICKEN COOP DOOR OPENER PROJECT PLUS
And for the record, I grew up and lived a good deal of my life on a farm and ranch environment, plus have owned chickens (Some of which were very expensive) even in my in-town life as an adult, so I'm quite aware of many of the concerns regarding these operations. I guess if going out to dinner is more important than making sure the chickens are put up first, then they aren't all that important to you. So you might either end up with chickens that are locked out of the coop, or a closing time that really doesn't eliminate potential problems.
AUTOMATIC CHICKEN COOP DOOR OPENER PROJECT FULL
This is a real help for people who want to raise chickens but are not a full time farmers.Īs mentioned in the article, the chickens aren't always going to automatically already be IN the coop at the time you might have the timer set for, and if you have it set late enough that they WILL for certain already be in there, then it's already past the time when predators might have already been prowling around. But, we always go check to ensure there are no chickens stranded outside the coop before it gets too late. We know our very secure coop is closed at dusk. Automating the door is better for the chickens who get to free range more and also stay safer.
So, there are many times when we just can't open and close the coop at dusk and dawn. For example, going out to dinner, visting friends and family, shopping, work, etc. In the winter dusk is 4:30 pm and dawn 8 or 9 am.) So timing one's entire days around the time of dusk and dawn is not practical. In our northern lattitude summer dawn is very early (4:00am to 5:00am) and dusk is very late (10:00 pm).
We cannot always be home to close the door at dusk, and we often don't get up at dawn, depending on the time of year. If you rasise chickens and also do other things, you'll understand. I've added an electric wire to the fence, and also my own design and coce for an automated door that uses photosensor to detect dawn and dusk and it uses a linear motor and vertical sliing shutter type door. We lost 4 chickens earlier this year to racoons who got in the fenced yard. We have just one coop, 2chickens and 6 more on the way.
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