Just scrolling through random photos. Old hi-bay light reflector, a cheap metal screw auger, some old pipe and a random drill I had. ESP controlled with some customised firmware. Silly chickens also have an automated door, heater, light... hooked into home assistant.
They're not even my chickens, they just rocked up one day and started trying to sleep on my hot water cylinder... nekkminnit I've been tricked into building them a house!
Time and speed. I'm going to add current monitoring in case of overload/locked rotor and either a weighscale for remaining qty. But we're about to move house so this will be redeployed in a much less jank and more permanent fashion.
Yes they have a camera too :-)!
Do you have a stream available? I keep a submerged camera in my indoor pond in my apartment, running as closely to 24/7 as I can on a self-hosted server (using owncast) at https://pond.vkmphotos.com/