I love my chickens, but.... Why?

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aart said:
They're just reacting with instinct,
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and habit. Every day I let them out and off they go. They're all like "why are we in here?".

What I need is some sort of pulley to open the nest box flap from outside. Having to go into the run is just an opportunity for them to bolt. Then I have to entice them back in.

I put them on the perch again and went back out afterwards to see what they were doing. 3 of them were up there, the other in the corner, but they were all standing up. I thought they rested on their keel when they went to sleep. Do they not settle down until later, or is it just because they aren't comfortable in there? I need a chook-cam.
 
aart said:
I just use large screw eyes in stead of pulleys.....look on my coop page, how I did my upper windows.
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Yes, it isn't the mechanism that "gets me", it's figuring out the movements. Your ropes go in the direction you want the windows to be in. To open this thing from the outside requires the movement to be the other way....(I could push it, but then it'd need to go UP and then it would need to go BACK.) I've no clue how to make that happen. Maybe just UP would do the trick and hold it there with a cleat I could probably figure it out, but it's not something I'm naturally "good at".
 

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