How To Make A Sliding Chicken Coop 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.

How to make a sliding chicken coop door.

The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and. A chicken activated coop door. Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own. Simple automatic chicken coop door.

I ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door. You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves. 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. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong. The old hinged door opened up to the inside. We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build.

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.