How To Make A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own.

How to make a sliding chicken coop 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 reason the chicken pop hole door isn t at floor level is because most chicken coops need bedding. We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build. 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.

A chicken activated coop door. 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 ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and. It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run.

Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong. I ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door.

The old hinged door opened up to the inside.