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[Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>]

On May 21, 2008, at 6:04 AM, Gene GeRue wrote:
> I forgot to say that I built the Taj Mahen chicken door so it could be
> automated with a photo cell actuating a small motor. The door is small
> and slides up and down in the wall. Faced on the outside with metal.
> Need Don or Roy to rig up a motor.

Rex Roberts, author of aforementioned book "Your Engineered House"  
had dog doors for his Saint Bernards.  Two doors on hinges with  
weighted ropes and pulleys to close them opened in and out.  Dog or  
cat could just push and go either way.  I wonder if chickens could do  
that  with small sets of doors.

A motor operated door could be rigged up.  If it was counter  
weighted, it would take a smaller motor, even be operated by a solar  
charged battery as found in the small electric fence chargers.

Roy


Roy Morgan
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Lovettsville, VA 20180