How To Make A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

A chicken activated coop door.

How to make a sliding 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. 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. We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build. Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own.

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. 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 old hinged door opened up to the inside. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong.

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 ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door. The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and.

Simple automatic chicken coop door.