Coop door lock works too great!

[bobbybedard]

I had a string on the latch after my first lock-in.
Somehow I keep finding it outside the coop though.
I wonder, is it the birds trying to keep me there or my wife?

 

[terrilhb]

 

[Crazy4mypeeps]

OMG too funny. Making a mental note to keep my cell phone on me while messing in the coop.

 

[flowergirl60]

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There is no poop near my pop door.

 

[BlueBetween]

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I tied beads on the end of my string

 

[BeccaOH]

I don't think I could lock myself in either coop, but I did get locked in the chicken yard a couple times. Glad for small hands and limber fingers that could make a way to reach through.

 

[cooper38]

I went in the tack room one day, and noticed a wire tied to the latch and run through a hole, and a new board nailed to the door. After wandering what it was it dawned on me, dad got locked in. I called him up and asked if he had gotten locked in the tack room and he said yes. I asked how he got out after a brief pause he said he took a circular saw that was in there and cut a hole out in the door to reach the latch, got out and rigged the latch with a piece of fence wire and replaced the board on the door.

 

[Casey3043]

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There is no poop near my pop door.

The hens wait on the ramp inside for me to let them out in the morning. Sometimes they just don't wait till they're outside to lighten their load from the long night's sleep! I think I would rather destroy a wall in my coop than crawl through a 12 x 14 inch hole covered with chicken POO !! (That's assuming I could make it through, as I said before)

 

[SoORchick73]

This happened to me two days ago. My 3 year old closed me in lol. I was thankful we purposefully placed the latch low enough for him to reach, and that he was smart enough to figure out how to open it ( who am i kidding, houdini figured out all our baby locks...i shouldnt have panicked for even a second). Now had he not been on the outside of the coop I would have been in trouble since my newborn was in the house.

 

[bobbybedard]

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I tied beads on the end of my string

I'm going to do that first thing in the morning. Genius.