Chicken operated pop-hole door

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farmerGiles

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Chicken operated pop-hole door
« on: December 28, 2010, 09:36 »
We currently have a manual door which is proving slightly problematic as they sometimes don't get out until 11 o'clock in the morning at the moment. :blush:

I don't like the idea of a light sensor or a fiddly timer, so just wondered if it would be possible to teach the chickens to press a button inside the coop with their beaks to open and close the door when they feel like it? Has this approach ever been tried before?

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Re: Chicken operated pop-hole door
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2010, 10:27 »
Ha ha great idea get them to put themselves to bed. My friend has a pigeon loft and he's has a contraption so that the birds can get in but not out he let's them out in the morning and They do their thing but if they go back into the coop it's tuff luck they stay in till the morning Maybe this kind of idea could work. Or put it in reverse for mornings. Only problem is if you had the best boxes in the coop they would not be able to get back in to lay
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Re: Chicken operated pop-hole door
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2010, 10:43 »
How about hillfooter's design for an automatic pop hole opener? Instructions:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=65865.0

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