DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
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Re: DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
#2This is a project I have long thought to try. Relatively simple task, but requires Designing a reliable system and sourcing quality components
Re: DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
#3This is a project I have long thought to try. Relatively simple task, but requires Designing a reliable system and sourcing quality components
and chickens ...
Re: DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
#4This is a project I have long thought to try. Relatively simple task, but requires Designing a reliable system and sourcing quality components
and chickens ...
and land
Technically I could keep chickens as long as I keep five or less. Realistically my neighbors would hate me. Also, there's a lot of foxes in my area and I don't think that my five chickens would be around all that long.
Re: DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
#5I have a door from Run-Chicken, mechanically it's still good but the electronics went out in it. I'd love to have something like this running it, going to give it a shot.
Re: DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
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and chickens ...
and land Technically I could keep chickens as long as I keep five or less. Realistically my neighbors would hate me. Also, there's a lot of foxes in my area and I don't think that my five chickens would be around all that long.
As for neighbors, just don't get a rooster. Hens do make some noise but they're not bad at all.
As for foxes, you can use a mobile coop+run. Move it once per day to provide fresh grass and distribute the fertilizer byproduct.
Re: DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
and chickens ...
and land Technically I could keep chickens as long as I keep five or less. Realistically my neighbors would hate me. Also, there's a lot of foxes in my area and I don't think that my five chickens would be around all that long.
My neighbors across the street (3 miles from downtown of a medium size american city) have chickens and most days I forget they are there. I grew up with chickens as well, and they really aren’t a nuisance. We also have foxes and uh, the time I did’t forget they were there was when I heard a strange yowling at dawn, clearly a chicken and yet so different from their normal noises. I assume that was due to a fox.
Re: DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
and land Technically I could keep chickens as long as I keep five or less. Realistically my neighbors would hate me. Also, there's a lot of foxes in my area and I don't think that my five chickens would be around all that long.
As for neighbors, just don't get a rooster. Hens do make some noise but they're not bad at all. As for foxes, you can use a mobile coop+run. Move it once per day to provide fresh grass and distribute the fertilizer byproduct.
Yeah, if I did it I'd want the area to be fenced in because one of my neighbors is nosy. It's a 1/4 acre plot, so not exactly a huge amount of land.
I know that my neighbors down the street have chickens because I occasionally hear them, but their yard is completely fenced in. I only know them well enough for casual greetings when we see them in passing, and there's a language barrier preventing more in depth conversation.
Re: DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
and chickens ...
and land Technically I could keep chickens as long as I keep five or less. Realistically my neighbors would hate me. Also, there's a lot of foxes in my area and I don't think that my five chickens would be around all that long.
> I could keep chickens as long as I keep five or less
Is that a specific chicken clause in a contract somewhere or a general head of livestock / pets clause.
5 chickens != 5 dogs != 5 horses
Re: DIY ESP32 based chicken coop door. Control based on time, light or via app
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
and land Technically I could keep chickens as long as I keep five or less. Realistically my neighbors would hate me. Also, there's a lot of foxes in my area and I don't think that my five chickens would be around all that long.
> I could keep chickens as long as I keep five or less Is that a specific chicken clause in a contract somewhere or a general head of livestock / pets clause. 5 chickens != 5 dogs != 5 horses
I looked up the ordinance, and I was wrong about a few things. Livestock or poultry may be kept provided that there are no more than 4. So I was wrong about the limit -- it's less than five and not five or less.
Also:
* I need to have a 1 acre parcel, and I have only a bit over 0.25
* It needs to be 25 feet from all property boundaries and fenced in, which limits placement options
I don't recall the 1 acre limit when I looked before, so I'm wondering if this has been updated.