Poll: Do you have an automatic coop door?

[Rick589]

Although I haven’t completed the building of my coop (getting my pullets next April), I installed the Run Chicken “Eternity” model a month ago to test it. So far it has not failed. It opens 20 min after sunrise and closes 20 min after sunset. I’m impressed!

Have the same door. Never changed the factory settings and it has been perfect right out of the gate.

 

[avjudge]

Like some others here, I have a (so far) predator proof run and attached coop with no door between the two, just a chicken tunnel. That is the summer arrangement so they are out in the run as early as they want, and let out to free range when my husband feeds the horses & llamas their breakfasts.

In the winter that same combination serves as their run but they are let in the barn overnight where they have another coop. In the late dark mornings of winter they seem perfectly happy to wait inside that coop until my husband is feeding and herds the chickens out. We are feeding everyone’s supper just before dusk so the chickens either put themselves in via the outside pop door (which is closed when the barn is closed up for the night) or if that is blocked by snow we will let them in via the barn aisle/main doors.

 

[Mamilo]

The plus or the eternal?

The Eternal model. It has been fool proof since early September when I installed it.