Auto Coop Door options

[Garagedude]

Does anyone make a auto door that opens and closes several times until the chicks setting under the door decide to move. I have to go outside and get them in so I can manually close the door which kind of kills the auto door idea which I'm getting tired of doing. Any ideas? The door I have now only stops and retracts up once then comes down and sets on the chicken. It stays in that position.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I don't have an answer for you, but I propose entering this as Court's Evidence #4,387 in the case of Chickens vs. Humans.

 

[Garagedude]

I don't have an answer for you, but I propose entering this as Court's Evidence #4,387 in the case of Chickens vs. Humans.

Well, I guess this has happened a bunch then.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Well, I guess this has happened a bunch then.

Maybe not this specifically, but it does seem to be yet another example of how chickens can foil our best-laid plans.

I’ll get out of the way for people with more experience in automatic coop door openers.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Ok, I feel terrible. I completely derailed Garagedude’s interesting thread.

Anyone here with auto chicken door openers who know of a model that will keep trying to close when a dingbat chicken freezes in the doorway? (without killing the chicken)

Like an elevator door that keeps opening and partially closing, over and over, because someone’s coat is triggering the safety relay. OP can’t be the only one with this issue.

 

[AnnPann]

I have an Omlet brand auto door, and it will keep trying to close a couple of times if something interrupts it. They have an app for it now too so you can close/open it remotely. I didn’t like the app-controller, but i don’t have great WiFi access at my coop.

 

[KyCoop]

I also have omelet. Two of them. One on the run one on the coop. The one on the run is close the ground so it does sometimes not close all the way due to debris in the track. It will open and close a few times and then close as much as it can.
The one on the coop has closed on a chicken. It gave her a good squeeze and opened back up and closed all the way when she was out of the doorway.
I've closed it on my arm to test it and it worked great.