As you can see from the photos below of my coop i had a large area where the door to my coop is and decided to use this section to add the chicken door.
Make a sliding door for your chicken coop.
Depending on how your coop is made this could be easy or really challenging.
Just like a chicken waterer and an automatic feeder is necessary for keeping your birds healthy an automatic chicken coop door opener keeps your chickens or ducks safe from prowling predators.
It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run.
This way you don t have to worry about bedding getting in the way and the door will be easy for you to open and close.
Whether you have an existing hen house or you plan to build a duck house an automatic chicken coop door opener is easy to install and can be.
If you decide you d rather go the route of using a manual door you ll want to build your chicken door so it opens to the outside.
Once you have decided where to put the door you need to then design exactly how the door will work.
Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old.
The problem with a simple pop door is that you have to lock and unlock it manually in the evening and at daylight.
Chicken coop door styles.