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.

You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves. 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. 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 ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and.

A chicken activated coop door. Simple automatic chicken coop door. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong. 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.

Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. I ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door. 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.