How To Build A Sliding 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.

How to build a sliding chicken coop door.

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 ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door. The problem with a simple pop door is that you have to lock and unlock it manually in the evening and at daylight. Add the wires from the panel to the regulator.

Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own. It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. The old hinged door opened up to the inside.

The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and. 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. We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build. Make sure its close to the antenna and battery.

Attach the solar regulator to the wall of the chicken coop. Add wires to your solar panel and if necessary make a frame for the solar panel so it sits on an angle.