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    How reliable are automatic coop doors?

    That's EASY to solve! The manuals are here for downloading: https://www.farmlite.store/common-issues Scroll down the page to find them.
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    How reliable are automatic coop doors?

    Make sure you convert the time correctly from 12 hour time to 24 hour time. From Midnight to Noon the hours are in 12 hour format, from Noon to Midnight the hours just go up one digit every hour. I'm mathematically challenged so my list is my guide! I also keep a pdf of it on the cloud so I can...
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    How reliable are automatic coop doors?

    Well I live in NC so it doesn't get extremely cold here, we get less than 10 nights total per season of very low double digit cold. We've had no problems with the door that were the fault of the door. Losing power, not the door's fault; chickens knocking bedding into the tracks, definitely not...
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    How reliable are automatic coop doors?

    The last time we lost power (a few weeks ago actually) I went out and pulled the electric cord out of the door socket, plugged in the battery pack set it up on a little shelf to the left of the top of the door (keep a screwdriver and flashlight there) and reset the clock so it would work. When...
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    How reliable are automatic coop doors?

    It has a battery backup option - it comes with a little box that plugs into the power input on the door that the electric one normally goes into and it'll run the door for like 3 days. I keep the backup in a ziploc with batteries next to our door to the backyard, power goes out I pop the...
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    How reliable are automatic coop doors?

    We have a completely enclosed yard for our girls wire mesh roof and all. We took patio blocks laid on the long edge and buried them into the ground around the entire perimeter to keep out predators (we had dug up a patio area and thought this would be a good reuse). I used to do the morning...
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