How To Make A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build.

How to make a sliding chicken coop door.

The reason the chicken pop hole door isn t at floor level is because most chicken coops need bedding. The old hinged door opened up to the inside. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong. You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves.

Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. The idea is to use the combined weight of the chickens as they climb onto the roosting bar to sleep at night to pull the cables and pulleys and pop the door open. The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and. It serves its purpose but we recently had to replace the people size door and there s a leak in the roof that needs to be fixed.

Detailed wiring instructions here in description today i am using a linear actuator as a mechanism to automatically close and open a chicken coop door. Simple automatic chicken coop door. I ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door. I have had to replace the battery a couple of times but this build has really worked well in this instructable i ll be showing how to make an easy automat.

The height of the chicken coop door from the ground outside doesn t matter as long as chickens have a ramp to access doors that are 18 24 inches high.