Making A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves.

Making a sliding chicken coop door.

The old hinged door opened up to the inside. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. If there are none secure one 30 in. Long 2x4 vertically to the side of your coop wall with wood screws or corner brackets.

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. Simple automatic 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 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.

Find the area inside your coop that you would like your door to be. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong.