How To Make A Sliding Chicken Coop 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.

How to make a sliding chicken coop door.

I ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding 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. We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong.

It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run. The reason the chicken pop hole door isn t at floor level is because most chicken coops need bedding. 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.

Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and. 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. Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own.

Simple automatic chicken coop door.