If I catch him in the coop he may wind up with lead poisoning. However, I hoping to just get the entire flock into the coop at night and avoid the entire issue in the first place.
Thanks for the website, will check it out. Roof had 7' wide deer neeting. Works great, except for the overlapping i did with zip ties. Tried to tighten that up. These two hens were typically the last ones in, but the days getting longer without updating the timer. I've attached a video...
The problem lies that the drapery motor needs the power to be turned on and then off each time... At morning and night. IE. the time is set to go off at say 7 AM and then turned off at 7:05. That way at 8 PM when it gets power it opens. Im sure you could create a circuit board to do this...
First of all, the blinking red dots are like 15 to 20 bucks, not 400. Prob a waste for even that. As for a manuel door, not against one, however, for people like me who don't want to have to be up at 7 am or home at 830 every single day of the year, the automatic door is a blessing and far...