[Homestead] Chickens

eureka at hctc.net eureka at hctc.net
Wed May 21 13:12:13 EDT 2008


No doubt they could enter this contraption into a Rube 
Goldberg contest :)

On Wed, 21 May 2008 12:55:39 -0400
  paxamicus at earthlink.net wrote:
> I knew getting Roy and Gene together could be fun and 
>interesting.  
> Automatic self powered chicken swatters.  : -D
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 21, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Gene GeRue wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> I stopped focussing on it when I considered that 
>>sometimes hens, or
>> more especially pullets, will sometimes sit on the 
>>threshold as it is
>> getting dark. If the door came down and she went in, all 
>>would be
>> fine, but if she backed out or just squatted, which is 
>>more
>> predictable from chicken brains, then she could be 
>>injured. So I guess
>> there needs to be a sweep that first swats her behind 
>>before the door
>> comes down.
>>
>> I wonder how much time and money one could invest in 
>>perfecting such a
>> system. Of course the world would then beat a path to 
>>our door holding
>> out wads of money. Right?
>> _______________________________________________
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