Daydream thread continues.....

alfie_1

OOOOOOO CTC how did you get on ?????

Itismehonest

Rhiw beat me with the offer but if I can be of any help PM me, alfie.

Lotus - Wouldn't a PIR risk keeping you awake most nghts? It may well set off for every movement. A neighbour has a security light & it goes on in every gust of wind because of the movement of bushes & trees
Is it for foxes?
How far away is the electricity supply?

Lotus-eater

Itismehonest wrote: »

Rhiw beat me with the offer but if I can be of any help PM me, alfie.

Lotus - Wouldn't a PIR risk keeping you awake most nghts? It may well set off for every movement. A neighbour has a security light & it goes on in every gust of wind because of the movement of bushes & trees
Is it for foxes?
How far away is the electricity supply?

That's why I need the sensitivity control and it is for foxes and badgers. I've lost all of my chickens so far due to one or the other and it has to stop.
I've protected my coop as best as I can, but I still want an early warning system if possible.

lostinrates

Alfie alert....

I am looking for a full height pedestrian wooden garden gate, wide enough to get a wheelbarrow through preferably and old looking. If you see one......


Meanwhile i am wanting an old copper bath i have seen on ebay....be it goes for a fortune.

Itismehonest

Lotus-eater wrote: »

That's why I need the sensitivity control and it is for foxes and badgers. I've lost all of my chickens so far due to one or the other and it has to stop.
I've protected my coop as best as I can, but I still want an early warning system if possible.

You have my sympathies.
I don't know of any PIR that would be range sensitive enough to distinguish between foxes & things you'd not be worried about. Even the hens themselves may end up setting it off.
Someone who has more experience of PIRs may, though.

Are the foxes coming in daylight hours or are they somehow managing to get into the roost at night?

If it's at night something like one of the baby alarms with a monitor (you can even get ones that have night vision) may work as most chickens are fairly quiet overnight so a rumpus would wake you but hopefully not a full scale cockerel dawn chorus.
Other than that all I can think of is something like a proper surveillance system like they use in lambing sheds & for property security.
In either case your coop would have to be pretty close to an electricity supply which is why I asked about it.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Alfie alert....

I am looking for a full height pedestrian wooden garden gate, wide enough to get a wheelbarrow through preferably and old looking. If you see one......


Meanwhile i am wanting an old copper bath i have seen on ebay....be it goes for a fortune.

EASY PEASEY LEMON SQUEEZY...:D:D :rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

EASY PEASEY LEMON SQUEEZY...:D:D :rotfl::rotfl:

Want a challenge?

A big wooden lintel, not beam but rather more formal.....kitchen fireplace. No idea where ti start looking for that. Its quite a big gap!

alfie_1

Lotus-eater wrote: »

That's why I need the sensitivity control and it is for foxes and badgers. I've lost all of my chickens so far due to one or the other and it has to stop.
I've protected my coop as best as I can, but I still want an early warning system if possible.

AS ITSME ASKED....Are "they" getting in during the day or night?
can you not put a battery electric fence up around the perimeter of fence? if its at night, how do they manage to get into the pen AND the house..? a pir sensor would be triggered by rats and allsorts. you can UP the size moniter but rarely exclude smaller [they tell u ,u can but....]
what size pen have they got and im assuming you lock them in at night ?
electric fencing is the answer. ok it costs but so does replacing chooks.................

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Want a challenge?

A big wooden lintel, not beam but rather more formal.....kitchen fireplace. No idea where ti start looking for that. Its quite a big gap!

EASY PEASEY LEMON SQUEEZY....:D:D:D

Give me measurements.... oak ??

Itismehonest

Do you have anywhere like this near you, LIR?

We got all our reclaimed timber from them. The pitch pine was originally large lintels about 2'x2'x??' which we had sawn into the wide planking for some of our floors plus all the beams in the 2 "vaulted" rooms. They have all sorts of wood of all ages plus loads of other things.