Etta Helping
Chickens are so easy to raise. All we have to do is fill their feed bucket and waterers every couple of days and collect the eggs. The only real inconvenience is letting them out of their coop every morning and locking them in at night. Its not a big deal when the weather is nice but as winter approaches it becomes harder and harder to leave the warmth of inside to run out and close them up at night. And we worry about them if we are out late in the evening or go out of town. So this weekend we installed an automatic chicken door using this guide. We built the door frame and door with scraps of wood we had on hand and ordered this motor. Installation was pretty fast and easy, now we are just waiting for 6:30pm when the timer is set to close the door!
Automatic Coop Door
Square Peg Farm 
Never heard of those before. Pretty nifty!
Well now, isn’t that clever. I love the sheepy assistant, by the way.
Do you check to make sure that none of the chickens missed curfew?
We’ll go out and count heads every once in a while. They are pretty good about getting in before dark falls. Well, all but one- Roadrunner- who sometimes prefers to sleep in a tree. But if she decides to stay in the tree there isn’t anything I can do about it.
Well, did they all go inside. It would be my luck to hace some that do not eant to go in. Does the homestead smell?
Everyone went inside. and then out again the next morning. safe and sound!
makes me think of “The Story of Ping” 🙂