Making A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

If there is a vertical support beam already in the coop this would be an ideal place.

Making a sliding chicken coop door. Long 2x4 vertically to the side of your coop wall with wood screws or corner brackets. It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong. Simple automatic chicken 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. You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves. 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 old hinged door opened up to the inside.

Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. If there are none secure one 30 in.