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Greetings - this is my take on the car antenna coop door. I used a NEMA rated electrical box from Amazon (<$20) along with some CN101 timers (~$10 each) and some cheap terminal strips from Amazon (~$12). Some wire, pulleys and a few other items and here we are! I added the light so I can...

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Greetings, After several weeks work, the coop I am constructing for my wife is nearing completion. The facility will be home to six hens and is located in North San Diego County (never too hot, never too cold!) I have designed and constructed an automatic coop door opener using the auto...

Pooping on each other will not be good! I have 9 feet of roost for six birds so theoretically I could take the middle one out and still have 12" per bird. I wonder if the birds could reach the top roost without the middle one....

Thanks - That will save me a bunch of work! I finished the slide out poop tray and nesting boxes yesterday.

One other question - I had planned to make the ventilation openings with doors that I could close in cold weather. While we don't get what most people consider cold weather, we do get a handful of nights that go below freezing. Should I just put the vents in and leave them open or make it so...

Thanks - I live in northern inland San Diego County so the weather is pretty good. I am planning on 1 square foot of ventilation per bird and will have it high in the coop. Do you think that the third nesting box is a bad idea? I know that hens can be persnickety sometimes about laying -...

Greetings, While I was raised on a small farm and had over 100 chickens, I have not had chickens for over 40 years. My wife wants 6 hens, so I have scoured this website (which is great by the way) for ideas and am making progress on the coop. The design has 24 square feet of floor space...