Get a flashlight and a handful of treats. Shine the flashlight into the house, they will come in, reward with treats. In 3-4 days they will go in on their own!
thank you so much!! we will attach a bell and hope that they figure it out! We got the automatic door so that they would have more time outside during the day and not have to rely on us to wake up and let them out. Thank you so much!!!
Before the automatic door, we used to let them out between 7-7:30 AM and they were all ready to go then. We are just trying to untrain them to rely on us being there to exit the coop.
Hello everyone! We installed an automatic door for our coop a few days ago and we have no issues with the hens going into the coop at night before the door closes, but in the morning, they are reluctant to exit the coop. We set the timer to open at 6:30 AM, but they don't exit the coop until...