best automatic chicken door?

[Dhkoenig]

Is there a favorite automatic chicken door that most of you agree on? Would be cool to have one that is wired in, rather than batteries, and works with phone alerts. Any suggestions?

 

[Squawkers]

Is there a favorite automatic chicken door that most of you agree on? Would be cool to have one that is wired in, rather than batteries, and works with phone alerts. Any suggestions?

The only one I can talk about is the Chickcozy door. I have it for almost a year. It has the option to plug in, but I have batteries it in. As I said, I’ve had it for almost a year, and I have never once changed the batteries and it is at 70%. So, battery life is really good. It does not connect to a phone. My biggest complaint is that the light sensor doesn’t work. I’m assuming I got a dud or something, though, because the reviews are really good. Anybody else have a chickcozy that the light sensor doesn’t work?

 

[Squawkers]

I’ve heard really good things about the run chicken doors

 

[Tstraub]

I’ve been using the run chicken door for about a year and a half. It did fail to open after a heavy ice storm. But to its credit the latches on the manual doors were also frozen and required some percussive maintenance to get things moving again.

After the freeze up I sprayed the door tracks with silicone lubricant and changed the setting to full power mode and never had any more issues. The full power mode disables the obstacle sensor so if I chicken would get caught it could be seriously injured or killed but my birds had already been trained to the door for several months and I wasn’t too worried about anyone getting caught in it.

 

[Dhkoenig]

wow thanks guys - I will check out both!

 

[Apis mellifera]

I'm going into my third winter with the JVR door and haven't had a problem yet.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

I've had my Run Chicken door for almost 4 yrs, zero complaints