All this talk of automatic door openers has got me thinking about my own current chook problem. It's all very well having a super duper automatic door closer thingy, but it if the hens refuse to go in the coop in the first place, it doesn't really help them!
The birds in question were hatched (whilst my back was turned) and raised under a hedge by one of our hens. However, when Mum decided to leave them and go back to the coop, the youngsters didn't follow her, and instead now roost in the hedge or surrounding trees!
I spent three weeks catching them all at dusk and putting them in the henhouse in the hope they'd get the hint, but to no avail. I even had to stop that because they'd taken to roosting high up out of my reach!
Any ideas folks? Will I ever manage to domesticate them, or should I just leave them to their own devices!?