Posts by AlabamaSweetpea

Quote: Originally Posted by swede-murphy  You CANNOT afford not to have an automatic door! By the time you get around to  cobbling together a door system, you will likely have spent as much as just buying one. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by CluckAcres  like i said you can make this more compact if you want. This coop is in my barn and the door is on the outside wall of the barn. Yes the bucket takes up little more space...

Quote: Originally Posted by CluckAcres  The pump was pluged into the timer. So when pump kicked on it filled pvc pipe and then the weight of the pipe pulled the door up. When timer goes off the water drains out of...

Quote: Originally Posted by CluckAcres  I made a home made auto chicken door using water, pvc pipe, wood, small pond pump, bucket, pulleys and a few other things. how did you put it on a timer?

I can't afford a ready-made automatic door and I've been trying to figure out a way to make one .. auto antenna, door locks, etc.,  and I like the way this one looks but can't figure out  the battery packs and...

that's nice .. can't wait to see the curtains.  What is that green thingie?  Is it an automatic feeder?

my chickens are camping out on my backporch til I can get their coop done and unless  they spill their water, there is no smell .. not a bad smell anyway

Quote: Originally Posted by WhySayWhat  What an awesome looking door you made!  You could pound brads into the face of it to get the same look as the mag too...   I will just be lucky if my doors end up...

nice .. I like that you put hardware cloth under the roofing

Quote: Originally Posted by Uncle Marc  Thanks.  I made them out of cedar and a piece of bead board plywood.  I cut the frames out of the cedar and glued and screwed the bead board to the...