Mellowmalt
Songster
Hello everyone,
I'm wondering if anyone here is familiar with this fox proof door design. Excuse the bad drawing, I'm hoping it is understandable, the door is basically a few slats that the chickens can push to get in or out, much like a cat flap. This is attached to a board on a rotating pole so that when the slats are pushed the board is pushed down along with it. Smaller chickens can still get in like this but the theory is that longer foxes would get crushed by the board the more they push the bars to get in.
I'm hoping that all makes sense. It was a long time ago I saw someone design this and it just slipped my mind but having lost a lot of chickens to foxes I want to make this design but I can't remember the ideal angle for the bars and I don't know if it even works.
I'm wondering if anyone here is familiar with this fox proof door design. Excuse the bad drawing, I'm hoping it is understandable, the door is basically a few slats that the chickens can push to get in or out, much like a cat flap. This is attached to a board on a rotating pole so that when the slats are pushed the board is pushed down along with it. Smaller chickens can still get in like this but the theory is that longer foxes would get crushed by the board the more they push the bars to get in.
I'm hoping that all makes sense. It was a long time ago I saw someone design this and it just slipped my mind but having lost a lot of chickens to foxes I want to make this design but I can't remember the ideal angle for the bars and I don't know if it even works.