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How to Make a Sliding, Self-Locking, and Predator-Proof Chicken Coop Door (2020)

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How To Make a Sliding, Self-Locking, and Predator-Proof Chicken Coop Door

This article is here to help you make your very own DIY vertical sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door. Simple and effective coop door that any experience level can build easily. Easy list to reference and affordable tools...

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Show threadPaulHouleApr 3

We have some friends who have a really well-built chicken coop. Sometimes we help them with the birds when they are out of town and bring back eggs.

A while back they had a stump in front of the house with a family of foxes living in it and they pointed a game camera at it.

Night after night they got footage of the fox mama bringing back other people's chickens to feed to her kits.

The moral is, I think, that the well-built chicken coop is a good investment.

Show threaddmos62Apr 3
There's something about these basic self-locking/self-unlocking mechanisms that's so satisfying. It's like they exercise my brain in a way it's not used to exercising, like that really good stretch you do sometimes that really hits that spot. Reminds me of knots: I geek out about knots sometimes, and it's just so profoundly weird to think "in knots", I feel like an alien when I'm doing knots, or like my brain is doing cirque-de-soleil-type contortions. I guess this says something about how mundane my usual mental activity is.
Show threadTerr_6d ago

When it comes to theorizing/storytelling about humanity meeting a larger galactic society, there are a lot of concepts about different species-character or specializations. I've always been interested in unusual answers to "what might distinguish us."

For a while now, "brains can think of knots" has been on that list. Imagine some aliens who are generally much smarter than us, but they need computers to indirectly create or solve knots, and textiles were a late- rather than early-invention.

Granted, this seems unlikely, but it's still amusing to consider.

Show threaddmos626d ago
Same. I enjoy thinking how different an alien could be, and how I'd discover things that were so constant in my life that I wasn't even aware of them, until someone completely different appeared.
Show threadHeyLaughingBoy6d ago

I love mechanisms. It's amazing how much mechanical complexity we were able to build before the advent of computers. Even more so when you learn how very minor changes like shaving a few degrees off an angle can be the difference between success and failure. As an embedded systems developer, I've been fortunate to work with a number of talented mechanical engineers over the years and come to realize that the complexity that they have to deal with isn't that far from what we have to do in software.

If you want to think in knots, go down the internet rabbit hole of investigating how the knotter in a hay baler works :-)

Show threaddylan6046d ago
I would like to compliment the video for being useful to purpose, simple, no annoying TikTok voice over, no voice over at all as it's not necessary, no unnecessary text. It's just a simple here's the thing, here's it working, here's why it works, and here's some detail on how it was built.
Show threadbonoboTP6d ago
Yes and I would have even seen the video, if a newsletter popup hadn't obscured the entire screen.
Show threadfsckboy6d ago
what's the chickenwire tunnel at the front door for? only thing i can think of is it lets the chickens see if there's a bird of prey above? but I don't know if that's something chickens are checking. or keeps certain large predators from fiddling with the door (but not large like a bear), but doesn't seem the door should open anyway
Show threadriffraff6d ago

For those who have chicken coops: why do you have separate doors for chicken and people?

My dad used to keep chicken and they just went through the same door and we'd just open it in the morning and close it in the evening.

Other people in my home town have similar arrangements and I feel I'm missing some important thing :)

Show threadqup6d ago

For me: the chicken door goes into a fenced enclosure to keep the chickens safe from predators.

I don't want to enter the enclosure, so I have my own door to go in and service the coop, fetch the eggs, etc.

The enclosure has a gate when I want to let the chickens out, as well.