Help with choosing an automatic chicken door

[B4pack]

Hi everyone, looking for some help. We have moved from CA to CO and have a new flock in the house getting ready to move outside. We are looking for any advise on an automatic chicken door that can hold up in cold weather. We got down to -7⁰ about a month ago for 1.5 days. Looking for any advice on a door that will still open in cold weather. Please let us know your choice if you live in these conditions. Thanks in advance.

 

[ChaosMom]

You might want to edit your thread title to include "cold weather conditions" or some such.

We have many members here in the northern US (including Alaska), Canada, northern Europe and Scandinavia, and southern Australia (maybe South Island NZ?)

 

[thecatumbrella]

I've got the Omlet auto door. It gets down to -20F here and we've never had an issue.

 

[RojoMarz]

I'm in the mountains in Southern Colorado (at about 9k feet elevation). I've had good luck with the Ador. It runs off a latern battery, which lasts a year or so. The only issue I've had was about two years ago, when we had negative temps for a couple weeks straight, the door started to only open half way. I changed the battery (which was already a year or so old) and issue was solved.

 

[dskowron]

I have this one from FarmLite. I live in the high desert of Utah and it gets mighty chilly here in the winter. This door works perfectly. I have mine set up on a solar-charged battery system. It is totally care free. The door itself only got stuck once in the closed position when it got really foggy and then froze. That doesn't happen here so it was a fluke. Otherwise it has worked perfectly for several years now.

 

[B4pack]

Thank you for the info. We will be looking into your suggestions!