Re: Cat (dog) flap

A_ L _P wrote:
> Can chickens learn to use a cat flap?  I have a normal little
> ex-cupboard hinged door on the chook-house but when I am home late -
> which isn't very late in the winter but they are already inside on
> their perches - that door is still open letting the chill draughts
> in.  So I suddenly thought, what if they could use one of those
> cat/dog flaps that swings shut when they've gone through?
>
> Is that such a nutty idea that nobody else has even tried it ?  :)
>
> A L P

dunno
You could try hanging some strips of plastic on the door and see if they
go 
through that.
Then work them up through tougher material.

Otherwise you could build in a couple of little walls inside the house so 
that the birds go around a corner inside and that way the draught would be

baffled.
I will draw it if you do not understand ;)

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