Work with me here - automatic chicken coop door opener

[boosmummy]

Ive been looking at these on the internet and they are £100+!!!!

Im wondering, could you (I) not make one of these?

Im thinking (this is where it gets tricky because my mind is random) if i got a piece of wood and attached it to the door ran a piece of strong wire (fishing wire?) up to the top of the coop threading it through hooks along the top, then got an old bell alarm clock, attached the wire to the alarm clock at the back where it winds.

When the alarm goes off the wire will wrap around the windy bit and the door would open.

Would this work?

[tamk23]

Don't talk to me about the price of these!!! I've been looking at them for the last couple of days

I have decided on a chuxaway that works with a timer £70, or if you want the runners and door to go with it £80.

Hoping to get it in the next few weeks

[Grannyof4]

Someone on here did make one but I can't remember who. I would never trust one in a million years and prefer to get out of bed in the morning to let the chickens out and tuck them up at night....to me that is all part of looking after chickens and all animals. Would you put an automatic door opener on your back door for the dog to go out for a wee first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

OOOOOPS seem to be on my soap box today!!!

[Steve the Gas]

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[boosmummy]

Someone on here did make one but I can't remember who. I would never trust one in a million years and prefer to get out of bed in the morning to let the chickens out and tuck them up at night....to me that is all part of looking after chickens and all animals. Would you put an automatic door opener on your back door for the dog to go out for a wee first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

OOOOOPS seem to be on my soap box today!!!

Well he has a cat flap :) its no so much as putting them in at night i would do that but the allotment is 2.5 miles away and i can only get there after school run in the morning so it would be just to let them out in the morning really xx

[boosmummy]

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ah thanks steve, thats what im looking for xx

[debby]

im gonna get one as well in the next couple of months !! as i work shifts sometimes i leave the house at 06.00 hrs !! i think its unfair to get the ladies up that early, at the moment i have to relalie on the teenagers to get up at chicken o'clock to let them out, and sometimes im not home till gone 10 at night so in my mind that would the best for all of us but hey each to their own xx

[chicken_house_man]

yes, you could make one but:
Don't expect it to be as good as a bought one.
Make it because you can and enjoy the challenge of making gadgets not because you need to.
Don't make it if you value your time more than the cost of the door opener.