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Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?

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310 points greenie_beans | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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niemandhier ◴[20 Feb 25 08:33 UTC] No.43112428[source]▶
Backyard chicken farming is a great hobby, and surprisingly tech heavy.

My Coop controller, which is hand build by grumpy bearded East Germans, even has modules to integrate into a smart home system and supports remote monitoring via cellular network.

https://jost-technik.de/PHB2.0-Klappensteller%20+%20Steuerun...

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Cthulhu_ ◴[20 Feb 25 09:34 UTC] No.43112800[source]▶
It's only tech heavy if you decide it should be though.
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niemandhier ◴[20 Feb 25 11:32 UTC] No.43113505[source]▶
I tried the low tech version first, and one night forgot to close the coop and brother fox killed all the chicken.

Also chicken are not particularly smart, so switching on light to lure them in when it’s getting dark is very useful.

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1. arkey ◴[20 Feb 25 14:03 UTC] No.43114735[source]▶
Unless you have too many to do this, you just need to show them in the first couple of nights, and after that they pretty much help themselves.