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What are Mother Hen’s™ components?

Mother Hen™ is a monitoring system that attaches to the automatic chicken door you already own. The $399 base kit gives you the controller, one Egg, one Coop Climate Sensor and Door Monitor, and first-year service; add more sensors à la carte as your coop grows.

Base Kit — $399 (First Year of Service Included)

Component Description Qty Image
Coop Controller Cellular-connected monitoring brain. Reads the position of your existing vertically-opening automatic chicken door and every paired Coop Climate Sensor and Door Monitor, then reports to the cloud over cellular. Does not open or close any door. 1 Mother Hen system overview diagram
The Egg (Indoor Alert Beacon) Indoor status light and buzzer. Green by day, blue by night, flashing red with a squawk if there’s a problem. Add more Eggs for coverage in multiple rooms. 1 The Egg indoor indicator showing its green status light
Coop Climate Sensor and Door Monitor Magnetic open/close sensor that mounts on any opening — doors, windows, nest box lids, hatches, or run gates — and reports coop temperature and humidity at that location. Can also be deployed in temperature/humidity-only mode on an interior wall, near a roost, or inside a brooder. 1 Coop Climate Sensor and Door Monitor in the closed position
First Year of Service Cellular data, cloud processing, and SMS alert delivery for the first year. $99/year after that. 1 yr

Add-Ons

Add-On Purpose Price
Additional Coop Climate Sensor and Door Monitor Monitor another opening (feed room, nest box lid, run gate) or add a temperature/humidity probe. Each unit beyond the one in the base kit. $35
Additional Egg (indoor alert beacon) Put an Egg in another room — kitchen, bedroom, workshop — so you never miss an alert. $40

Cloud & Customer Portal (Included)

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