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.

As it shifts to a lighter weight the door closes. If there are none secure one 30 in. You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old.

Simple automatic chicken coop door. The idea is to use the combined weight of the chickens as they climb onto the roosting bar to sleep at night to pull the cables and pulleys and pop the door open. The old hinged door opened up to the inside. 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.

Find the area inside your coop that you would like your door to be. It s been 4 years now since i built this chicken coop door and it s still going strong.