DIY Automatic Chicken Door Opener

[@nickotasla3091]

👍Lady. It's not perfect. But every INTELLIGENT PERSON must definitely GIVE YOU THE RESPECT of ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR GENIOUS.Thank you for showing others that we are free to use our BRAINS and invent stuff. 😉👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Where there's a will, there's a way!! I knew from the start a) I wasn't going to go out every morning and every evening 2) I didn't want to pay very much for an automatic door opener. As you said, this isn't perfect, but it actually does the job very well. AND I was able to get the chicken who didn't like to roost back to roosting (ask me if you're interested how).

[@rockinrahn773]

That's just a genius idea!

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Thanks! It really works!

[@AztecWarrior69_69]

It was genius way back when there was no power. There are drawings of the Chinese using such a device.

[@CredibleHulk10]

This is brilliant, and I can't imagine why there would be 13 👎🏻 on this vid.

[@CoyoteCrossingSanctuary]

This deserves more views! Brilliant

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Why thank you!

[@illinoisvideoatlarge8039]

I posted it on chicken page.

[@fertiliza]

Very Clever! Thanks for sharing 😊

[@SelfEvolutionHypnotherapy]

Love it - and the chicken song! Awesome :) Thanks so much for sharing.

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

I know, right? I love that chicken song! I'm sure many people find it annoying, but I"m not one of them. 🙂

[@buynsell365]

Great idea ........ I love it.........Thanks

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Thanks!

[@SuperMaxHODL79]

Like all the best engineering it's elegant in how many things it does without.

[@asnowski]

Exactly. It is ridiculously simple actually.

[@tiger15-q3s]

Great idea...The best autonomic chicken door that I've ever seen...

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Thank you so much! I've gotten feedback from people who have used my plans to build it that it works for them too!

[@MissAllyson707]

There’s always a troublemaker chicken in the group! 🤣

[@asnowski]

Yep!

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Amen to that!!

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

Ingenious. I'd like to try it.

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

I hope you do!

[@betsy773]

❤Great video. Great idea. Thank you for taking the time to show us how it works.❤ Some ppl on here are just rude.

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! And honestly, most people are awesome.

[@cherylguffey6220]

Nice idea. I know some of the automatic doors can be pushed up from the bottom, and I wonder if a raccoon wanted in that they could indeed get in.

[@asnowski]

I have wondered this myself. There is no "finger hold" underneath the door. It comes flush with the base. The edges on either side are covered. But to test it, I'd need to lock a raccoon in my run with the chickens in the coop.

[@BenjaminEmbrace]

I love it. Thank you so much for sharing Fantastic invention

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Hey thank you!

[@wannabezook]

Amazing!

[@ittasukia.2748]

I had read comments about it but unfortunately it only works according to the weight of the hens, vertical and sliding door. There is no way to turn it into a bridge type liftgate.

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Yes, this is a vertical opening door and does work according to the weight of the hens.

[@AztecWarrior69_69]

Why NOT? Why Can't you? Look I don't recommend this particular way of "automating" a coop door but you can still make a drawbridge type door using this. All you have to do is match the distance the perch/roosting lever travels to the distance the door raises and lowers. Use stainless steel pullies to get the friction down to a minimum.

[@LoOMleetamus]

I made this 15ys ago, but i used bottles of water as the counterbalance so I could fine tune the weight as the hens grew.

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

That is a great idea! I might try that, as I'm going to be making it a little bigger since I got more chickens.

[@meholden]

So smart!

[@PMclean-h5l]

Wow!

[@JoseMoreno-yq7sw]

You r so Smart and muy bonita thanks for the great idea

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Muchas gracias, Jose!

[@romainm1820]

So cool

[@illinoisvideoatlarge8039]

I like the idea…..it mostly gives us leeway…..chickens can get out earlier if they want….on the farm predators come around mostly 3-4 am…. Everything is a chance with your outside or not outside to watch them

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

In the summer, my chickens come out at the crack of dawn. There is no way I'd be able to get out there every day to let them out that early!

[@johnpeterson4868]

I like your genius, but what is a predator makes them jump off the roost

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

The predator would be outside of the coop, so how would they make them jump off the roost? If the predator is inside the coop, then it's a lost cause.

[@johnpeterson4868]

@@revolutionarychicken6251 I don’t know maybe hitting the coop or pushing on it, I’ve seen my birds jump down at times, would it take more than one before the door goes up

[@kenbayard6737]

Curious... what are your plans when one dies?

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

I go out while the chickens are roosting and see if it closes too early. If so, I check with one of the weights removed. It might take a few days to make sure it's right.

[@bighairdays9725]

Genius

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Why, thank you. I'd like to thank the older gentleman at Home Depot for helping me to figure out how I could put it together.

[@AA-pt7nq]

I wonder what the chickens think

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

You mean, when their roost moves? I do think they get used to it. They don't squawk when it closes or opens.

[@AA-pt7nq]

@@revolutionarychicken6251 just in general like when they’re waiting on the last chicken to roost do they get impatient 🤣

[@illinoisvideoatlarge8039]

Like I wonder what they think when one hen pulls ceiling fan chain and things get VERY HECTIC! This has happened three times so it’s very interesting how sometimes they really think well, sometimes not

[@usb6009]

Brilliant..!

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Thank you!

[@RiverJumper7]

wow love it thanks

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Thank you! It works!

[@nickabel8279]

Smart. The big negative I see is of a predator is outside n one or more decides to jump off for any reason

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Even though it closes on the last one, it takes two to get down for it to open. So even if one jumps off, it stays closed. Not sure how the physics on that work, but I should have mentioned it in the video.

[@nickabel8279]

@@revolutionarychicken6251 no scholar but i think it has to do with your pivot point/ fulcrum?

[@AztecWarrior69_69]

@@revolutionarychicken6251 Um you really think that if one chicken gets spooked that the rest are just going to sit there? It doesn't matter what they do when all is calm and just ones jumps off.

[@romanxaled]

I have 28 chicken's .. can i use that in their room ?

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

I'm afraid not. I can't think of a way that you'd make this work for that many chickens. Sorry!

[@billsmodelrailway4318]

you could buy what we did its is a solar pannel one called Chicken Guard can close at dawn and can use battaries

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

@@billsmodelrailway4318 Chicken Guard is close to $200 with shipping. I'm sure it works great. But if you have a small flock, this system does the job for a fraction of the cost.

[@fertiliza]

@Roman Xaled, you can have steady poles in the highest position for the first chichens to roost and a single and lower pole tô last chichens that will triger the mecanism. Like this guy did: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmWQi6mVq9ukbZI

[@AztecWarrior69_69]

@@fertiliza Yeah but LOOK at ALL that room he has to do that.

[@AhaFarmchanel]

Good very good

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

Thanks!

[@bluemaster6414]

Nice very smart blonde 👱‍♀️

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

HA HA HA! Thank you!

[@AztecWarrior69_69]

no batteries and no electricity and no security. If a hen or two decide not to join the rest or worse one or two get eaten or die during the days, then you are dooming the whole flock. "no batteries and no electricity" unless you are using the batteries as counter weights then the batteries provide electricity. So while you are trying to make your list of things this "gets rid of" , it really is only one thing on the list and that is just not worth the lack of stability.

[@revolutionarychicken6251]

What you are saying is true. However, chickens are creatures of habit. So while it does depend on whether the chickens sleep in their coop at night, they just do. I have my chickens in their run during the day--they don't free-range unless I'm there because I occasionally get a wandering dog in my yard. So I don't really have to worry about chickens getting killed during the day. But if you had a setup where there is more danger of them not making it back at night, it probably wouldn't be a good idea.

[@AztecWarrior69_69]

@@revolutionarychicken6251 Actually you are wrong about them being creatures of habit. They do not think "Oh that's where I go every night when I'm tired." NO. They go to wherever they feel safest at that time. I had a large coop in the back of my property, with all the security measure and safety, YET as I was building a smaller brooding coop, they would go and roost in that coop even tho it had no walls at the time. So your idea that just because they TEND to go inside one place does NOT mean that they do not change their minds and roost elsewhere. Also The run attactcted to large coop was fully enclosed and had roosting bars that were lower than the bars inside the coop, yet they would (on random nights) sleep outside instead of in the coop. Then I built a second coop. Was planning to expand the flock. And the existing flock sometimes would all be in the first one, or they would be all in the second one, or they would be split up into both coops. So NO they are not creatures of habit. Lets not forget that chickens have a hierarchy . Chickens can and will, at anytime decide that another chicken is not worthy of roosting with the rest of the flock. They will even torment and pick the feathers off of them. So those chastised birds may not want to or be allowed to roost with the rest of the flock. In short this is a bad idea when compared to better available methods. I fully believe in doing things simpler, lower cost, creative, and with tools & supplies on hand, yet this is not one of those times. Too much can go wrong and too much to make sure that it doesn't.

[@billsmodelrailway4318]

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[@revolutionarychicken6251]

I haven't tried to monetize my channel at all. I think KZbin is just doing that. I'm sorry you had to watch any ads.

[@illinoisvideoatlarge8039]

@@revolutionarychicken6251 youtube premium is awesome…shareable to five people. Would not want to live without it as I prefer learning on KZbin to movies this past year since I got 37 rescue chickens