My Chickens Have Feet

At this point my chickens have feet and the start of beaks. I'm busy right now getting the research paper together. However, with a little effort each day I can get the chickens and gears together soon. I used chain for the legs so there is lots of movement when they spin and jump. The wings will be loosely connected with a jump ring so they flop around also

One of the problems so far has been making the gears. I have the design as shown in an earlier post, but I have been stubborn about trying to make them from the walls of gourds. I will have to abandon that concept for this first automaton and use plastic gears purchased from American Science Surplus.

These are 3 sets of snap-apart gears.