How about asking one of the neighbors whom you go to all this extra trouble for if they would mind letting the rooster out of his "pad" in the morning and letting him back into it come nightfall?
I assume your roo is so habituated to the routine by now that it he would go back inside pretty willingly. At least my roosters always knew the routine and knew to go back to the place where they were supposed to sleep each night, and all I had to do was let them inside.
I assume your roo is so habituated to the routine by now that it he would go back inside pretty willingly. At least my roosters always knew the routine and knew to go back to the place where they were supposed to sleep each night, and all I had to do was let them inside.