How To Make A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

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.

How to make a sliding chicken coop door.

I ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door. It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong. Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own.

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. 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. 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. 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 old hinged door opened up to the inside. We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build. The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and. Simple automatic chicken coop door.

The reason the chicken pop hole door isn t at floor level is because most chicken coops need bedding.