How To Make A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

The old hinged door opened up to the inside.

How to make a sliding chicken coop door.

Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own. The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and. 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. It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run.

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

A chicken activated 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. 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 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.