DO NOT use this as an example, I have unseen diodes wired in this version that enable me to use 2 relays and 2 power supplies, but somewhat complicate the setup and don’t truly isolate the electronics. We’ve recently had a bold fox stopping by in the early morning, so we’ve adjusted the door to hold the chickens in about an hour and a half beyond sunrise to keep them safe. I’ll make sure to describe how we monitor and ensure this is a reliable, but strong against predators, setup.įinally, as the days lengthen and shorten, or if the aforementioned predators start to come around early, it is great to be able to adjust the opening and closing times independent of the sun. I alluded to the other reasons above - my wife and kids want to know their chickens are safe whether we are just in the living room, or hundreds of miles away on a camping trip. Doing it with the parts below would allow you to make a small door all the way up to closing or opening a standard size door for humans. He doesn’t like to squeeze through small doors and we don’t want him to get hurt. He is big, beautiful, and incredibly friendly. One BIG reason I don’t think the consumer door solutions would work for our coop is that we have a very big show quality rooster. I’ll also let you know how I hooked it up in a different way beyond this simple method (I’m always improving I guess).
Make your own automatic chicken door how to#
BUT, there are a few things that I really like about the custom DIY chicken door I am going to show you how to build below. If you avoid the “too good to be true deals” and cough up the near 200 dollars for the real version, I bet they would do a good job. Paypal was very kind and refunded my money in about 5 minutes. I actually thought I was getting a great deal once when I ordered one of these via a facebook ad for $40, but after a few months of waiting for the package to come from overseas, I received a fancy charging cable which they used to prove my “chicken door” had been delivered. I can’t speak much to the automatic chicken doors on amazon. What makes this DIY Chicken Coop Door better?
hence this simpler and cheaper DIY chicken coop door that doesn’t require any programming or fine adjustment. I even dreamed up and created an automatic chicken coop door that opened and closed with the sun! That one was really cool and worked quite well, but I wanted to improve a few things about its design.
We had some children in this time, but they are quite a costly (but worth it) chicken coop operators as well.Ī few years ago I started teaching Arduino (an easy to program piece of input/output hardware) at the school where I teach and it was so simple to automate anything and several guides online had the basic connections and programming. For years after that I would look at automatic chicken doors on amazon, but the cost was outside what I was willing to pay (~$300 at the time, $150 at time of writing). My first iteration was a comical attempt at getting a used power car antenna to make a sliding door - It worked as a chicken door but was not reliable and couldn’t be checked on remotely. This daily chore is one that seems like it should be simple to automate, but I have been trying to build the perfect automatic chicken door for a decade now that is safe, reliable, and impenetrable. This automatic do it yourself chicken coop door is made from parts and pieces that can be easily obtained from Amazon or a local big box store.
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