How To Build A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

You ll only need to do this if the sun doesn t directly hit the panel.

How to build a sliding chicken coop door.

Add the wires from the panel to the regulator. A commercial or diy automatic chicken coop door is installed to keep your chickens safe from predators at night and to make it easy to let the hens out in the morning. It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run. We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build.

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. The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and. 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. The old hinged door opened up to the inside.

The problem with a simple pop door is that you have to lock and unlock it manually in the evening and at daylight. Attach the solar regulator to the wall of the chicken coop. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own.

A chicken pop hole door should be 6 12 inches above the level of the chicken coop floor so that the bedding doesn t block the doorway or spill outside. 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.