Automatic Door Openers

[suburbanhomesteader]

Hi-
I had some spare time (HA!!!!...it's 1:30am and I should be in bed, but I am addicted to this Coop Design section! I'm having as much fun building tractors and coming up with the "perfect" coop plan as I am keeping chickens!!) and was reading a post from January; it was the same subject as one posted here a couple of days ago.

Not sure if they gal got something McGyvered or not, but here was the other post;apparently, the ones from England have timers which work on batteries. That's pretty slick!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=275

 

[eggchel]

http://www.chicken-house.co.uk/door_opener.htm



chel

 

[mudhen]

It is really a great opener! You can set it to a timer or you can have it work with a light sensitive eye.
Very cool!
And the maker is a member of BYC. Also, I noticed this month that the back cover of Backyard Poultry shows that there is now an American distributor (Foy's) in PA that sells the VSB electronic doorkeeper.