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.

If there is a vertical support beam already in the coop this would be an ideal place. 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. Long 2x4 vertically to the side of your coop wall with wood screws or corner brackets. 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. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. Simple automatic chicken coop door. If there are none secure one 30 in.

As it shifts to a lighter weight the door closes. 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.