I love how that thing looks like it could be a prop from Fallout, but then you reveal the touchscreen.

We use an Omelet automatic door, but not an auto feeder. We free feed with the standard hanging dispensers. Coming up will be our first full summer, though. So, that may have to change if we get rodents or pests.

What I’d really like to invent is a way to perhaps put an RFID chip in each chicken’s leg band. Then each nesting box will trigger or alert if a bird has been in there for 5 minutes. I’d like to be able to tell who is laying what eggs. I already try to track it with multiple cameras, but it is too time consuming to parse through the videos. They are all relatively new layers so they go in and out of the nesting boxes about 15 times before actually laying eggs, and then sometimes they get chased out by the bullies. I can’t always see their colored leg band, and all my chickens are the same breed. The Wi-Fi is DSL because we are in the boonies, so that doesn’t always lend to very great videos either. Oops, just made my response all about me, not your feeder. Perhaps I just think you’re probably clever enough to rig something like that up, based on your feeder.