How To Make A Horizontal Sliding Chicken Coop Door

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How to make a horizontal sliding chicken coop door.

Just like a chicken waterer and an automatic feeder is necessary for keeping your birds healthy an automatic chicken coop door opener keeps your chickens or ducks safe from prowling predators. Standard door door size 9 x 13 mounting area 12 x 32 179 00. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. Click on the image for dimensions and price.

Simple automatic chicken coop door. The reason the chicken pop hole door isn t at floor level is because most chicken coops need bedding. You can choose the standard large or horizontal automatic chicken coop door to fit your coop. A chicken activated coop door.

The old hinged door opened up to the inside. The most recent example of this was my determination to install a sliding barn door in my chicken coop. Typically cheaper automatic openers will raise and lower doors of up to 1kg in weight. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong.

An automatic chicken coop door opener not only allows your chickens to enter and exit the coop easily but also enhances the security of their home. Not straining the motor is important for a smooth operation of the door. A typical coop door can weigh 4kg however an aluminum counterpart measuring the same size will be 0 3kg. We have found issues with different kinds of doors shavings dirt and dust ge.

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. Better more robust motors will raise a 4kg coop door and not strain themselves. Greg walks us from start to finish through building a sliding chicken door. You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves.

It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run. 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.