"A_ L _P" <hay_hell_pea@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Jill wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That could be fun - ka-waak plas-tic plas-tic -plas-tic bookbook squawk,
> Myrtle, the smelling salts!
>>
>> 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 ;)
>>
>
> It's OK, I remember the comedy recording about the mousetrap - "so he
goes
> in there but he can't..." :-)
>
> You mean something like an S but with right angles eh - Ladieeeees
> atten-shun! Quick march, left turn, right turn, left turn, at the
double,
> on_to_your_perches ...and AT EASE!
>
> I'll try the flaps first. Easiest.
I'd go with a simple piece of plywood propped against the door opening at
an
angle to cut the wind but still let the chickens in under the angled part.
I can draw it... ;-)
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