Solar Panel – If needed Avg Cost $50-200+ (depending on how much power you need to support your coops needs)
Cut Power Cord (Comes with a cord no charge)ģ. 12v Battery - Deep Cycle (Not a marine battery) - Avg Cost $60+Ģ.
These are usually found at your local power sports store (Bass Pro, Cabelas, etc) but you may find cheap ones online as well.ġ. Alternative power has become extremely popular and is flooding the market with cheap alternative power options.Īs for the Solar panel there are many different types, a common one is used to recharge small boats as previously mentioned. If you search online enough, there are plenty of alternative power manufacturers that will compete against each other for you. Do not get pressured into spending your life savings on giving your chickens "Green Power". Setting up your own alternative power can get costly but remember what the intended use is for. Much smaller sized solar cells can also be purchased for powering the bare necessities of your coop as well. There are small solar cells made for the back of boats to charge their batteries so you can buy an already made solar cell or you can go so far as to purchase large 4x8 sheets of solar cells to place on the roof of your barn or coop to power everything going entirely "Green". The other option is to add a solar cell to your battery. Every once in a while you may need to take the battery in to recharge it completely to keep the chickens from going back to the dark ages. Some customers have even gone so far to run their coop off of a battery and place a trickle charger in the battery to keep a constant electric current charging the battery (will only apply for someone needing very little power). If your using battery back this means you have a battery running your coop and you bring the battery in every once in awhile to recharge it. If the timer on your Automatic Chicken Coop Door is keeping up with current time and not accelerating faster than actual time, then you will not need this. Some of our contributors that use a battery backup have said that they also use a reducer to slow down the timers that they have set on their lamps and heaters due to the electric current making it speed up the timers rotation (This may or may not apply to you). *If you want an Automatic Chicken Coop Door with a DIY Solar kit included you can get that here. A heater will use quite a bit of electricity throughout the day so if you are supporting a heater also you may need to read the side of the heater and find out how much electricity you will need to support it in a day. The motor on our door only operates twice a day and is drawing no power other than from the timer to operate throughout the day (Little electricity will be needed to operate). This is also what most lamps or heaters will run off of as well. One of the best ways to protect your chickens from power outages is to add a Battery/Solar backup to your coop.įor a battery/solar power for your chicken coop, we recommend that you have a 12v battery (The motor for our Automatic Chicken Coop Door is 120v 60herts 19watts, same as an ordinary house outlet). All of these run off of electricity and our chickens depend on them. Do you have an Automatic Chicken Coop Door, lamp, or heater that your chickens depend on everyday? I know in our coop we have a heater for the winter, a light at certain times of the day to boost egg production, and an Automatic Chicken Coop Door.
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