My coop design will not permit vertical door....and It is hard for me to get home in time to close them up. I'm a visiting nurse.
Perhaps something on a bit of an angle...
Perhaps something on a bit of an angle...
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Vertical also work well by attach a line to open/close from outside when the automatic motor die. As you already know, there is no need to clean up the track often either if you made the track wide enough.I have a manually operated horizontal door between sections of my coop, and the lower track gets litter and chicken poo jammed in it often. Easy to clean out when I want the door shut, but would never work as a hands-off unit. I think the automatic doors need to be vertical.
Mary